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

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June 14-Yanks land on Saipan.
June 16-First robot bombs strike
Britain.
June ls-Russians crack Manner
helm line.
June 19-Americans trap $4,000
Germans on Cherbourg Peninsula.
June 20-Russians capture VII
puri.
June 2s-Russians capture Vitebsk
and zhlobin.
June 27-Americans capture Cher
bourg.
June 28-United States bombers
from Britain and Italy slash at
France, Romania and Bulgaria in
shuttle assault. British and Cana
dians surround Caen on three sides.
June 30-United States sewers re-
lations with Finland.
July 3-Red armies seize Minsk,
corner 100000 Germans.
July 5000 Allied planes raid
France from dawn to dusk.
July 7-B-29s bomb Japan.
July 8-United States mops up
Japanese on Saipan.
July 9-British and Canadians
occupy Caen.
July l5-Allies take Arena, Italy.
July 18-Americans take st. Lo,
France.
July 20-German generals at
tempt to assassinate Hitler.
July 2l-Russians cross Bug River
in Poland.
July 27-Russians reach Vistula
River, capture Lwow, Daugavpils,
Rezekne, Bialystok, Stanislawow.
August United States tanks
enter Brittany at four points.
August 2-Reds reach Baltic Sea-
August 3-United States tanks
capture Rennes, Brittany capital.
August 8-Russians cut off NaZi
oil supply In Carpathians.
August 8-Eight German officers
hang for Hitler revolt.
August 9-Desperate Nazi counter
attacks stall Russian drive.
August 10-Guam conquered.
August 12-United States troops
race to trap 100000 Germans west
of Paris
August 15-Allies invade South
France between Marseille and Nice
August 18-St. Malo citadel sur
renders
August 20-Allies reach the Seine
August 21-French patriots battle
Germans within Paris.
August 22-United States Sd Army
forces second crossing of Seine
southeast Of Paris.
August 23-Romania ends wal
against Allies: fights Germany.
August 25-Paris liberated.
August 27-Russians clear Ger
mans from 92-mile stretch OF
Danube in Romania.
August 28-United States forces
push up Marine Valley in major
offensive.
August 2a-Allies occupy Toulon.
September 4-British take Brus-
sells, Antwerp.
September FINLAND quits wa,
with Russia.
September 11-United States In.
vades Germany.
September 12-Le Havre falls.
September 16-Roosevelt meets
Churchill in Quebec.
September 24-Reds enter Czecho.
slovakia and Hungary.
September 27-Allies invade Al.
bania.
October calais falls.
October 3-Warsaw patriots enc
fight against Germans.
October British invade Greece
October 6-Yanks crush Siegfriee
defenses near Ubach, hit Western
Cologne plain.
October 11-Aachen becomes in.
ferno under Allied bombs and guns
as Nazis spurn surrender.
October 13-Riga falls to Russians
October 1+Greek-Bri forces
occupy Athens.
October 15-Russians capture Pet
samo, Finland.
October 13-MacArthur invades
Philippines; Gen. Stilwell recalled
from China.
october 20-Aachen falls.
October 20-Russians smash into
East Prussia.
october 2o-Belgrade taken by
Reds.
October 20 - Russians invade
Southern Hungary.
October 2l-Stalin and Churchill
confer on peace problems, Polish
issues.
october 25-Russians invade Nor.
way.
October 2S-Allies accept Bull.
garia's armistice terms.
October 29-Second battle of Phil.
ippine Sea, crushing defeat fol
Japanese.
November 3-1st Army reaches
Roer River in Germany.
| November 4-Greece cleared o
Germans.
November 7-Roosevelt reelected
November 10-Prime Ministe
Churchill admits Va rockets ar,
hitting Britain.
November 12-RAF sinks Tirpit.
OF Norway.
November 16-Eisenhower open!
mass drive on Germany.
November 19-Geilenkirchen Il
taken.
November 22-Metz falls.
November 24-Super Forts bomb
Tokyo.
November 24-Allies take Stras-
bourg.
November 25-United States LIST
Army breaks through Hurtgen For
est.
December ATHENS gripped by
Fam strikes.
December 5-British fire on ELIAS
In Athens.
December 16-German counterof-
fensive opens in north.
December 20 Won Rundstedt
breaches Allied lines with 10 Nazi
divisions, smashes toward Liege;
encircled Yanks at Bastogne reply
Nuts" to German demand for sur
render.
December 22-Patton strikes at
southern flank of Bulge" food and
medical supplies dropped to be-
sieged Bastogne.
December 25-Churchill, Eden fly