Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07

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begins of Java; United States loses
cruiser Houston, destroyer Pope.
March 9--Japanese overrun Java.
Rangoon. Burma's capital, falls.
March 16-United States troops
arrive in Australia.
March II - Gen. Macarthur
reaches Australia from Philippines.
April 9-Fighting ends on Bataan.
April 1S-Doolittle bombers raid
Tokyo.
May 4-s-Japanese lose Coral Sea
battle.
May 6-Corregidor falls.
May ;2-Russians launch offensive
against Kharkov
May 26-Axis opens sixth Libyan
campaign with thrust toward
Tobruk
May 30-More than 1000 Raj
planes bomb Cologne.
June 3-Japanese repulsed in at
tack on Dutch Harbor. Alaska.
June 5-United States Navy routs
Japanese at Midway, Nimitz an
nounces.
June l1-United States and Rus
STA sign mutual aid pact.
June l2-Japanese land in Aleu-
tians.
June l8-Churchill on second
wartime visit to United States.
June 21-Tobruk falls to Nazis.
June 22-Japanese sub shells Ore
gon coast.
July Germans capture Sevasto-
pol.
July 4-United States flyers bomb
Western Europe first time.
July 5-British stall Rommel be-
fore Alexandria.
July 17-Japanese occupy three
islands in Aleutians.
July 27-Russians evacuate Ros-
TOW.
August 7-Americans land on
Guadalcanal.
August 19-Commandos and Ran
gers raid Dieppe.
September l7-Nazis penetrate
Stalingrad.
September 23-Russians launch
Stalingrad counterofiensive.
October 23-Gen. Bernard L.
Montgomery breaks Axis FL Ala
mein line.
November 8-Americans and Brit
ish invade North Africa.
November 11-Germans occupy all
France. Americans capture Casa
blanca and Oran, ending French
resistance.
November 12-United States wins
three-day naval battle in Solomons.
November 13-British take Tobruk.
Il November 19-Russians open win
ter offensive at Rzhev and Stain
grad.
/ November 27-Most OF French
feet scuttled at Toulon.
! December 24-Admiral Darlan as
sassinated.
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January 1S-Reds break siege of
Stalingrad.
January 24-Tripoli, capital Of
/, Italy's last colony in Africa, falls.
January 26-R oosevelt and
Churchill vow unconditional Sur
render at CaSaDlanca.
January 27-Heavy bombers make
i first all-American assault on Ger
many.
February 9-Guadalcanal COM
pletely taken
February 25-Americans retake
Kasserine Pass after German ad-
vance.
i March 1-4-Japanese defeated in
Battle of Bismarck Sea.
May 1l-Churchil again in
Washington.
May 12-Axis resistance in Africa
ends in the Cap Bon Peninsula.
May l4-Yanks land on Attu.
/ May 30-Japanese on Attu wiped
out.
| July 5-United States wins naval
battle of Kula Gulf.
July 7-Yanks land on Munda.
July 10-Allies invade Sicily.
July 19-Allies bomb Rome.
July 22-Palerno, Sicilian capital,
falls.
July 25-Mussolini resigns; Ba-
doglio becomes Prime Minister.
August It's United States Lib
orators blast Ploesti refineries.
August l5-United States occupies
Kiska in Aleutians.
August l7-Conquest of Sicily
completed.
August 23-Russians take Khar-
kov for second time of summer.
/ August 24-Roosevelt and Church.
i'll meet at Quebec.
August 29--Danes scuttle fleet in
revolt against Nazis.
! September 3-Italy invaded across
Messina Strait.
! September American para
troops land behind Lac, New Guinea
September S-Italy surrenders I'M
conditionally.
September o-Italy invaded at
Salerno.
September 1o-Germans seize
Rome.
September 11-Most of Italian
fleet escapes to the Allies.
September 12-Mussolini freed by
Nazi paratroops.
September 26-Smolensk falls to
Russians.
October 1-AlIies take Naples.
October 5-United States Navy
and planes hit Wake.
October 13-Italy declares war on
Germany.
October 26-Reds capture Dne-
propetrovsk.
November 1-Americans land on
Bougainville.
November 6-Reds take Kiev.
! November 81 - United States
forces land on Tarawa.
December 4-Roosevelt- Churchill
Stain meet at Teheran.
December 16-United States 9Th
makes surprise landing on New
Britain.
/ December 24-Eisenhowe to di-
rect invasion Of Europe.
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