January 1: Luftwaffe employs over 800 aircraft to attack
Allied air fields in France, Belgium and Holland in the last major Luftwaffe
attack. Germans launch operation “Norwind” against US 7th army. US 8th
army begins four month mopping up operations on Leyte.
January 2: Germans counterattack at Budapest.
January 3: US 1st army counterattacks in Germans
Ardennes Salient.
January 9: US 6th army lands at Lingayen Gulf on
Luzon Island.
January 11: Russians enter into Warsaw.
January 12: Russians begin winter offensive against South
Poland.
January 16: Ardennes salient eliminated by join-up of US 1st
and 3rd armies at Houffalize.
January 17: Germans evacuate Warsaw.
January 18: Germans break through Russian lines and reach
Danube south of Budapest.
January 19: Russians take Tilsit & Cracow.
January 22: Burma Road reopened.
January 25: Americans capture Clark Field on Luzon.
January 27: Russians take Memel; Lithuania freed.
January 28: Last vestige of German salient in Ardennes
removed. Russians enter into Pomerania. Supply convoy reaches China over the
Ledo - Burma Road.
February 1: US 7th army reaches Siegfried Line.
US 6th army drives towards Manila.
February 4: Yalta conference begins.
February 6: Russians cross the upper Oder.
February 8: British and Canadians launch operation to clear
region between the Maas and the Rhine.
February 9: British and Canadians through Siegfried Line,
reach the Rhine.
February 12: Yalta conference ends.
February 13: British 14th army establishes
bridgeheads over Irrawaddy, south of Mandalay. RAF raids on Dresden.
February 14: USAAF raids on Dresden. US 6th army
begins operation on Bataan peninsula.
February 15: Russians attack towards Danzig and complete
encirclement of Breslau. Heavy fighting continues in Manila.
February 16: Indian Brigade lands on Arakan coast to block
Japanese troop withdraw. US Paratroops land on Corregidor.
February 17: Americans occupy Bataan peninsula.
February 19: US Marines land on Iwo Jima.
February 23: Russians take Poznan. Marines take Mt Suribachi
on Iwo Jima.
February 24: Americans complete occupation of Manila except
for isolated pockets.
February 26: Canadian 1st army begins operation
‘Blockbuster’.
February 28: Corregidor declared secure.
March 3: Manila finally secured. US infantry land on Burias,
Ticao islands.
March 5: US troops capture Cologne. Russians approach
Stettin. Germans destroys bridges and as US 9th and 1st
armies reach the Rhine.
March 6: Germans launch major counter-offensive towards
Budapest. Russians march towards Danzig. Cologne cleared by US 1st
army.
March 7: US 1st army crosses the Rhine river over
Remagen railway bridge. US 3rd army thrust towards Ahr. Chinese
occupy Lashio.
March 8: Americans enter Bonn. US troops land at Zamboanga
on Mindanao.
March 9: US 3rd Army cross Rhine. Japanese attack
French forces in Indo-China.
March 10: Japanese and French forces fight in Hanoi. US 1st
and 2nd Armies link up on Rhine.
March 13: US 14th army capture Maymo & cut
the escape route of Japan army in Mandalay.
March 16: US 3rd army begins assault across the
Moselle. Iwo Jima secured.
March 17: US 3rd army captures Coblenz.
March 19: Japanese evacuate Mandalay.
March 22: Russians besiege Danzig and Gdynia. US 3rd
army overcomes opposition in Mainz.
March 25: US 3rd Army cross Rhine and captures
Darmstadt. US 9th Army contacts with British troops. Russians
advance toward Austria by breaking German offensive.
March 26: British 2nd army expands bridgeheads
towards Ijssel.
March 28: Russians capture Gdynia. Russians troops reach
Austrian border.
March 30: Russians capture Danzig.
April 1: US 1st and 9th armies
encircle Ruhr. US 1st army enters Hamm. French 1st army
reaches Linkenheim.
April 4: Hungary cleared from Germans.
April 5: Russians denounces Russo-Japanese Neutrality Pact.
April 7: Russians break into Vienna. Royal Navy Aircrafts
attacks Japanese in Sakadina Group.
April 9: Russians take Konigsberg fortress.
April 10: US 9th army takes Hanover. Canadians
cross the Ijssel.
April 12: US President Roosevelt dies. Harry Truman sworn in
as President.
April 13: Russians occupy Vienna. Allied forces took Belsen
and Buchenwald concentration camps.
April 15: Canadians reach the North Holland.
April 16: Russians begin offensive towards Berlin along the
rivers Oder and Neisse.
April 17: US extend another Lend Lease agreement with
Russia.
April 18: Ruhr pocket is neutralized. British 2nd
Army reaches Luneburg. US 3rd army crosses Czech border near Prex.
US 9th army takes Magdeburg.
April 19: British begin assault on Bremen. US 1st
army captures Halle and Leipzig.
April 20: US 9th army takes Nuremberg.
April 21: Russians develop pincer movement against Berlin.
French army takes Stuttgart. US 5th Army and Poland 8th
army enter into Bologna. Americans secure Ie Shima Island.
April 22: Hitler declares to stay in Berlin to end.
April 23: US 8th army ends Central campaign with
the Capture of Cebu.
April 24: Red army forces enter into Berlin. British and
Canadian forces enter Bremen and took Dessau. Dacha concentration camp
liberated.
April 25: US 1st army makes contact with Russian
forces near Torgau.
April 26: French forces occupy border from Basel to Lake
Constance. Intense fighting in Okinawa. US 3rd and 5th
army establishes bridgeheads across Danube.
April 28: Mussolini captured near Swiss Border and killed by
partisans. US 7th army begins takes Augsburg and reaches Austrian
border.
April 29: German army representative signs unconditional
surrender at Caserta. US 3rrd army reaches Isau. 7th army reaches
Munich and overruns Dachau concentration camp. Hitler publishes Testament and
announces Admiral Donitz as his successor. Hitler marries Eva Braun.
April 30: Hitler commits suicide in Chancellery bunker.
Russians reach the Reichstag building in Berlin. US 1st army meets
Russians at Eilenburg. US 7th army clears Munich.
May 1: Australians land on Tarakan Island. British Air
troops land on Rangoon.
May 2: Red army takes Berlin. German armies in Turin &
Milan surrendered. British 2nd army reaches Baltic. Royal Air Force
conducts last air raid in Europe.
May 2: Bernard Montgomery meets German envoys at Lüneburg
Heath. US 7th army takes Innsbruck and advance in Brenner Pass.
Indian troops enter Rangoon.
May 4: Germans agree to surrender troops in Denmark, Holland
and in North-West Germany. US 7th army occupies Salzburg, Berchtesgaden
and links with 5th army at the Brenner Pass.
May 5: German envoys arrive at Eisenhower’s HQ.
May 7: German Commander Alfred Jodl signs unconditional
surrender of German forces to Western Allies and Russia at Reims.
May 8: Churchill and Truman proclaim V - E Day.
May 9: German surrender in Berlin ratified. Russians take
Prague.
May 10: US 14th army links up with troops from
Arakan and cut off west of the Irrawaddy.
May 11: US 10th army start two corps attack over
Okinawa.
May 13: Russian army fight against last resistance in Czech.
In Okinawa, Americans suffer heavy casualties. Australians capture Wewak
Peninsula.
May 15: US Navy and Royal Navy attack Andaman Islands.
May 16: Dutch forces land on Tarakan Island.
May 18: Chinese occupy Foochow. US marines take Sugar Loaf
in Okinawa.
May 19: Japanese opposition in Luzon ends.
May 21: Japanese supply base at Malaybalay, Mindanao was
captured by Americans.
May 24: Japanese make paratrooper and air attack US
airfields on Okinawa.
May 25: US joint Chief-of-Staff complete plan for operation
‘Olympic’, to invade Japan by November 1.
May 26: Japanese land route to Indo-China is blocked by
Chinese when the capture Yunh-ning.
May 28: Lebanese and Syrians fight against French forces.
British 12th army establishes Headquarters at Rangoon.
June 1: Japanese retreat on Luzon, Mindanao and Okinawa.
Chinese attack north of Foochow.
June 3: French troops evacuated from Damascus and Beirut.
June 4: US marines land of North Oroku Peninsula and starts
advancing.
June 5: Germany to be divided into four zones for 4 allies
and Berlin to be commonly occupied.
June 8: US 6th army reaches the Magat on Luzon.
June 9: Japanese encircled on Oroku peninsula.
June 10: Australians 9th division invades Borneo
and took Labuan airfield.
June 11: Australians land near Chabai.
June 13: Australians capture Brunei town. Resistance in
Oroku peninsula ends.
June 17: Japan’s 32nd armies defence line
collapses. US 6th army takes Naguilian.
June 18: Organized resistance on Mindanao ends. US 10th
army commander killed on Okinawa. Australians reach Tutong in Burneo.
June 19: Australians reach north of Brunei Bay.
June 20: More number of Japanese surrenders at Okinawa.
June 22: Japanese resistance in Okinawa and Tarakan Island
ceases.
June 27: Us 6th army reaches Aparri and Luzon
campaign ends.
July 1: Australian 7th Division lands at Balikpapan.
Chinese take Liuchow town.
July 3: Occupation of Berlin takes place. Australians take Balikpapan
and oil installations.
July 10: US Task Force 38 and Royal Navy Task Force begin
large scale operation against Japan mainland with 1000 aircraft raid on Tokyo.
July 12: British and American troops take control of Berlin.
New allied landing on Borneo.
July 16: First atom bomb exploded at Los Alamos.
July 17: Potsdam conference opens. US Navy and Royal Navy
aircraft attack Tokyo.
July 24: Royal Navy’s 3 day air and Sea attack on West coast
of Malaysia begins against airfields and Railways.
July 25: Potsdam declaration on Japan.
July 30: Japan rejects Potsdam ultimatum.
August 2: Potsdam conference ends.
August 4: Chinese capture Sinning. Last Japanese troops in
Burma are killed.
August 6: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
August 7: US 1st army arrives at Luzon and
prepares operation against Japan.
August 8: Russia declares war on Germany. Russian Red army
begins attack on Manchuria and North Korea.
August 9: US drops 2nd atomic bomb at Nagasaki.
August 10: Japanese broadcast to surrender.
August 14: Japan agrees to unconditional surrender. US air
force’s B-29 conducts last air raid of the war over Kumagaya, Isezaki.
August 15: V-J (Victory over Japan) day.
August 20: Russians occupy Harbin and Mukden.
August 27: US Navy enters Bay of Sagami, Tokyo.
August 30: US Marines and 11th airborne division
arrive at Japan and begins occupation. Royal Navy reoccupy Hong Kong.
September 2: Japanese envoys sign instrument of surrender on
Board of Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
September 5: British land on Singapore.
October 24: United Nations Charter ratified by 29 nations.
September 5: British land on Singapore.
October 24: United Nations Charter ratified by 29 nations.
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