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January
Russians recapture Velikye Luk.
railroad center.
+U. s. Department of War lntorma-
ton announces 81, 126 service casual
ties to date,
12-U. S. planes based in Africa bomb
Naples. Italy.
19-British only 40 miles from Tripol
23-British enter Tripoli, Libyan capital
25-Voronezh, big Nazi stronghold, falls
to Russians.
26-"Unconditional Surrender" agree.
ment of Casablanca announced.
February
2-Last German troops surrender in
Stalingrad; U. S. Naval forces repel
9 major Japanese attacks in Solomons
area.
B-Allied headquarters establish sepa-
! rate U. S. command for North Africa.
9-Last Japs withdraw from Guadal-
canal.
, 14-Rostov and voroshilovgrad captured
by Russians.
15-Russians take Kharkov. important
base.
16-Cruiser Chicago is sunk by Japs;
u S. Navy reports Is Jap ships hit.
26-U. S. flyers raid Kiska in Aleutians.
March
S-Rzhev retalxen by Russians.
4-Allied bombers destroy Jap convoy
11-British attack Mareth line in Tunisia.
4, 17-American forces take Gafsa in Tu-
nisia.
;2O-Chinese check Jap drive in Hupeh.
Human region.
24-Advancing Russians retake Abinsk
and other towns near Smolensk.
26-U. S. and British troops advance in
Tunisia.
31-British take Matouia and two other
cities in Tunisia.
: April
1-Fortresses raid Cagliari, Sardinia;
Chinese drive Japs back into Burma.
4-Chinese retake Chuchiachuan.
5-Allies bomb Naples, Kiel, Antwerp.
Brest
T-Bremen and other north German
cities bombed in biggest raid
20-Russians attack on Kuban front.
21-Japanese execute U. S. flyers.
23-U. S. Naval forces occupy Funafuti
islands. southwest Pacific.
May
6-Lt. Gen. Jacob Devers is named u. S.
commander of European theater.
7-Bizerte falls to Americans; British
first army takes Tunis.
14-Last resistance ends in North Africa.
19-U. S. bombers raid Pantelleria, Itali-
an island fortress.
23-Guerrilla warfare spreads in Balkans.
30-Japs admit loss of Attn.
31-French Alexandria fleet joins Allies.
June
e-Curtin says invasion danger past in
Australia.
l1-Pantelleria. italian island fortress,
12-Lampedusa, fortified Italian island,
capitulates.
13-Chinese recapture Sungtze, port city.
16-Chinese charge Japs use gas.
17--RAF bombs Cologne.
30-U. S. forces land on Rendova, In
Solomons.
July
1-Rendova taken by u S. forces.
5-Russians launch offensive on 100
mile front; U. S, Navy battles Japs
off Solomons.
12-British capture Syracuse.
23-U. S. troops enter Palermo.
24-Americans take Marsha, Trapani.
25-MUSSOLINI RESIGNS, KING EN-
MANUEL ASSUMES GOVERNNENT.
N-Italian peace negotiations begin.
28-Fascist party dissolved.
August
1-U. S. planes bomb Ploesti refineries.
5-Russians take Orel; British capture
Catania, in Sicily.
6-AmericanS occupy Munda, In Solo.
mons.
11-Russians drive into Ukraine.
N-Allies enter Messina; Island of Vela
Lavella in Solomons taken.
18-Resistance ends on Sicily.
21-U. S. and Canadian troops occupy
24-Quebec conference on war plans
ends.
25-British Admiral Mountbatten made
chief of Allied Southeast Asia conf
se-Russians retake Taganrog. Nazi an,
Choir.
September
1-Japs withdraw air base from New
Guinea.
ALLIED forces invade mainland of
Italy near Reggie Calabria.
AIlses vca E1P Faint De IIMsUn,
TIONALLY; Stalino. steel center,
falls to Russians.
British troops take laramie; Great
est Allied raids strike northern
France.
1e-Germans seize Rome.
11-Allies take Salerno. Italian feet
surrenders
14-Salamaua falls to U. s. and Aus.
tralan forces.
16-Novorossiisk recaptured by Russians.
24-Nazi troops evacuate Corsica.
28-British take Foggia.
October
ALLIED forces take Naples. ~ days
after landing at Salerno.
3-Australian troops capture Jap base
at Finschhafen. New Guinea.
6-Island Of Corsica, in Mediterranean,
Is freed of Nazis.