War Chronology 1945
1945
January
1-The parachutist Zvi Ben Yaakov was murdered in Mauthausen concentration camp
2- American counter-attack in the Ardennes
7- Battle for Luzon in the Philippines
12- The Soviets launched the final offensive in Germany
15- End of the Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes)
17- Liberation of Warsaw by the Red Army. Evacuation of Auschwitz, beginning of the death march of the concentration camp prisoners of Stuthoff (next to Danzig, Poland)
26- The parachutist Aba Berdichev was executed in Mauthausen concentration camp
27- The Red Army liberated Auschwitz concentration camp[
February
4-Beginning of the Yalta Conference in the Crimea
11- Entry of the Red Army to Budapest
13- The Red Army liberated the Grossrosen concentration camp (part of Poland now) Massive bombing of Dresden
19- American forces invaded Iwo Jima
28-the American Army liberated Manila
March
1-the parachutist Peretz Bernstein was murdered in Oranienburg concentration camp
7- The 1st US Army crossed the Rhine
9- Massive aerial and naval bombardment of Japan
Massive aerial bombardment of Berlin by 1250 bombers
29- The Soviet Army invades Austria
30- The Red Army captured Danzig, Poland
April
1- US forces invaded Okinawa
4- Rebellion against the Germans of a brigade of the Georgian legion on the Dutch island of Texel
6- Death march of the Buchenwald concentration camp inmates
9- Capture of the Senio bridgehead on the Italian Front by the Jewish Brigade
11- Liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp
12- Harry Truman elected President of the United States following the death of President Roosevelt
13- The Red Army captures Vienna
15- Liberation of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp by the British Army. Allied forces captured Arnhem.
16- Commencement of the Battle for Berlin by the Russian Army
20- Capture of Hamburg by the British Army
21- Capture of Nurnberg by the American Army
22-freeing of Sachsenhausen concentration camp by the Red Army
28- Mussolini captured and executed (together with his mistress Clara Petacchi) by Italian partisans.
29- Liberation of Dachau concentration camp by the American Army and Ravensbruck concentration camp by the Red Army. Surrender of German forces in Italy
30- Adolph Hitler committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin
May
2- British forces captured Trieste. The Russian Army captured Berlin.
3-.Allied forces captured Rangoon, the capital of Burma.
5- Beginning of the uprising against the Germans in Prague. Liberation of Mauthausen Concentration camp by the American Amy. Allied forces liberated Holland and Denmark
7- Germany surrendered
8- VE (Victory in Europe) Day .liberation of Theresienstadt concentration camp by the Red Army
9- Liberation of Prague by the Red Army
11- Surrender of German forces In Czechslovakia
16- Liberation of the Channel Islands by the British Army
July
17- Commencement of the Potsdam Conference to decide the fate of Germany following its defeat in the war.
August
6- The Americans drop an atom bomb on Hiroshima
8- Russia declared war on Japan and invaded Manchuria
9- The Americans drop an atom bomb on Nagasaki. The Russian army invaded Manchuria and Korea
15-Japan surrendered. VJ (Victory over Japan) Day
30- British forces liberated Hong Kong
September
2- Japan signs surrender document on board the American battleship “Missouri “
3- Surrender of Japanese forces in the Philippines and Singapore
5- Occupation of Singapore by British and Indian troops
9- Official surrender of Japanese forces in China