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January

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l-Russians recapture velikye Luki. rail-
road center.
4-U. S. Department of War information
announces CLIPS service casualties to
date
l2-T: 5. planes based in Africa bomb
19-British only 40 miles from Tripon
23-British enter Tripoi. Libyan capital.
2o-Horonezh, big Nazi stronghold, falls to
"Unconditional Surrender" agreement of
Casablanca announced.
February
2-Last German troops surrender in Stal.
ingrad: U. S. Naval forces repel major
japanese attacks in SolomonS area.
6-Allied headquarters establish separate
U. S. command for North Africa.
9-Last Japs withdraw from Guadalcanal.
1ARostov 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
3-Rzhev retaken by Russians.
4-Allied bombers destroy Jap convoy of
% ships.
17-American forces take Gafsa in Tunisia.
20-ChineSe check Jap drive in Hupeh-Hunan
region.
24-Advancing Russians retake Abinsk and
other towns near Smolensk.
26-U. S. and British troops advance in
Tunisia.
cities in Tunisia.
April
1-Fortresses raid Cagliari, Sardinia:
Chinese drive Japs back into Burma.
fChinese retake Chuchiachuan.
5-Allies bomb Naples. Kiel. Antwerp.
1o-British capture Sfax. important Tunisian
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bombed in biggest raid"
20-Russians attack on Kuban front.
21-Japanese execute u. S. hiers.
23-U. S. Naval forces occupy Funafuti
islands. southwest Pacific.
May
7-Bizerte falls to Americans; British first
army takes Tunis.
1FLast resistance ends In North Africa.
17-Nazis attack in Kuban, Russian front.
19-U. S. bombers raid Panteneria. Italian
island fortress.
23-Guerrilla warfare spreads In Balkans.
30-Japs admit loss of Attu.
31-French Alexandria feet joins Allies.
June
s-Curtin says invasion danger past in
Australia.
11-Pantelleria. Italian island fortress. sur
renders.
12-Lampedusa. fortified Italian island. ca.
13-Chinese recapture Sungtze. port city.
16-Chinese charge Japs use gas.
SOU. S. forces land on Rendova. in
Solomons.
July
1-Rendova taken by U. s. forces.
5-Russians launch offensive on 160 mile
front; u. S. Navy battles Japs off Solo,
12-British capture Syracuse.
23-U. S. troops enter Palermo.
24-Americans take Marsala, Trapani
25-MUSSOLINI RESIGNS, KING ENddAN.
UEL ASSUMES GOVERNMENT.
26-RAF raids Hamburg. Hanover. Essen.
27-Italian peace negotiations begin.
28-Fascist party dissolved. Riots sweep
Italy.
August
1-U. s. planes bomb Ploesti refneries.
5-Russians take Orel: British capture Cat.
6-Americans occupy Munda, in Solomons.
11-Russians drive into Ukraine.
17-Allies enter Messina; Island of vela
Lavella in Solomons taken.
18-Resstance ends on Sicily.
21-U. s. and Canadian troops occupy kiska.
2+Quebec conference on war plans ends.
25-British Admiral Mountbatten made chief
of Allied Southeast Asia command.
30-Russians retake Taganrog. Nazi anchor.
September
1-Japs withdraw air base from New
Guinea.
2-Allied forces invade mainland of Italy
near Reggie Calabria.
7-Allies capture Palmi, Delianova.
e-ITALY SURRENDERS UNCONDITTON.
ALLY; Stalino. steel center falls to Rus
slams.
e-British troops take Taranto; Greatest
Allied raids strike northern France.
10-Germans seize Rome.
11-Allies take Salerno. Italian feet sur.
renders.
1Asaiamaua falls to U. S. and Australian
forces.
-Novorossiisk recaptured by Russians.
24-NaZi troops evacuate Corsica.
26-Jap defense at Finschhafen stiffens.
28-British take Foggia.
October
I-AIlied forces take Naples. % days after
landing at Salerno.
3-Australian troops capture Jap base at
Finschhafen. New Guinea.
5-Island of Corsica. in Mediterranean, Is
freed of NaZis.
9-Russians complete mopping up Of eau.
casus region.
13-Italy formally declares war on Germany
by action of Premier Marshal Badoglio
14-In great raid on Schweinfurt, Germany
important ball-bearing factories are