The Omaha guide., 1944-12-30
Chronology
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January
Polish border.
2-U. S. marines expand hold on Cape
Gloucester. New Britain.
s-American troops capture San Guista.
1.-TWO new Russian ofensives are opened.
22-British blast Magdeburg in 1.000-plane
raid.
27-LENINGRAD CLEARED OF NAILS.
30-Hitler in speech anticipates defeat.
February
1-chinese advance in northern Burma.
1Marines capture Namur and other Is
lands in the Marshalls.
gu. S. army takes Kwajalein atol In
Marshalls.
16-Heaviest bomb load yet dropped hurled
on Berlin by British bombers.
17-U. S. laval task force attacks Truk.
main Jap base in south Pacific.
19[apanese cabinet reorganized. following
gu. S. naval task force strikes at Mari
anas islands.
24-An of western New Britain passes to
29-stalin offers peace terms to Finland.
March
e-Record raid on Berlin made by 1000
planes.
l5-Russian army crosses Bug river.
19-Advancing Russians enter Bessarabia,
26-Russians reach Romanian border.
30-Palau islands. 1000 miles south of ia.
pan. attacked by U. S. navy.
April
2-Russian troops enter Romania.
American planes bomb Austria:
10-ODESSA FALLS TO RUSSIANS.
12-Anfnd frOan- halt Tan drixyn MAR KO.
hima. in India.
ga thousand u. S. bombers raid Berlin
3O-Japan's mid-Pacifc base. Truk. is raid
ed for 35th time.
May
Jailed forces in Italy turn back German
counterattack near Anzio.
9-Sevastopol. Black sea naval base. falls
to Russians.
15-Chinese launch counter-offenslve in west.
ern Yunnan' province.
IS CASINO, NAZI STRONGHOLD IN IT
Ally, FALLS TO AMERICANS AFTER
28-Allied bombers strike at German syn
thetic oil plants in Leipsig area.
AMERICAN TROOPS ENTER ROME.
6-INVASION OF CONTINENT BEGINS
WITH LANDINGS IN NORMANDY.
6-Allies in Italy capture port SO miles
north of Rome.
IiLO tlOl lliC4h ain
reaching point Is miles inland.
l7-Chinese take Kamaing. Burma.
23-Week-long German robot bombing re-
ported by British.
25-American tank units enter Cherbourg.
important French port.
26-Russians capture Vitebsk and Zhlobin
july
3-Minsk falls to Russians as they sweep
into Polish territory.
6-Robot bomb casualties and damage In
southern England are admitted to be
e-British and Canadians enter Caen.
France. anchor of German lines for
weeks.
ing Lwow. fall to Russians on various
fronts.
2s-Brest-Litovsk captured by Russians
30-Allied "break-through" registers large
gains IN France
1-Resistance in Tinian island in MarshaIIs
Turkey breaks diplomatic relations with
1o-Guam Conquered. giving u. s. control Of
all important islands of Marshalls
15-A second Allied invasion force lands on
southern French coast between Mar
seille and Nice.
19-U. S. tank units reach suburbs of Paris
2o-Southern France invasion force enters
s~l-Romanian capital, Bucharest. is entered
by Russians
September
films and Russians cease fighting In
s. declares war on Bulgaria
britain lifts black-out regulations. con.
sidering menace from air conquered.
l1-American First army pushes FIVE miles
into German territory.
l~2-Romania granted armistice by Allies.
l3-Russians reach border of Czechoslo-
Vakia
l4-U. S. Third feet attacks Cebu and Ne
gros islands Of the Philippines.
l6-Second Quebec conference ends Plans
for quick finish of European war and of
marshaling of forces for japanese front
are made
ls-Finnish armistice signed by Russia and
22-Russians take TaIlinn, capital OF Estonia.
3o-Russians gain 6o-mile-wide bridgehead
in Yugoslavia
October
1-Galais. French channel port. falls to AL
asiegfried line preached at Uebach by
u. S. Fifth army.
4-U. S. bombers raid Borneo oil fields.
6-Russians cross Hungarian border.
ll-East Prussian border reached by Rus
l7-U. S. troops enter Aachen. important
German border city.
20-AMERICAN FORCES UNDER GEN.
MACARTHUR INVADE PHILIPPINES.
LANDING ON LEYTE ISLAND.
Moscow conference between Stain and
Churchill ends.
gu. S. navy meets and defeats huge Jap
feet between Philippines and Formosa.
November
AN German forces driven from Greece.
flaps gain in China. advancing on rail
city of Liuchow. Meanwhile. British
troops drive back Japs in Burma.
I'LL. S. planes sink eight Jap warships.
14-Rr;tish bombers SILK TirpitZ, famous
German battleship, in Norwegian port.
i6-Grcat Allied irive launched on 300-mile
front from Holland TO Vosges.
20-F=cnch troops reach Rhine river In
plunge through Relfort gap.
2l--t.ieut. Gen. Patton leads Third army IN
drive % miles beyond Metz.
B bomb Tokyo factories from base IN
Marianas. 1850 miles away.
27-Lieut. Gen. Marx Clark is made com
mander IN chief OF o.. S army forces IN
ltaiv.
29-U. S. Third army attacks forts at SaaI-
br1ckea. SaarIauterr and Merzig.
First and Ninth armies capture border
towns
30-U. S. planes sink 10 JAP transports ana
three destroyers. drowning 1000 near
Leyte.