Detroit evening times., 1945-05-09


Dec. 31-Venezuela breaks off diplomatic re-
lations with Germany, Italy, Japan.
1912
Jan 2-Twenty-fve countries at war make
declaration by United Nations" not to
sign separate armistice or peace.
Jan. 19-Three vessels sunk by enemy sub
marines off the North Carolina coast.
Jan. 26-First American troops land in
Northern Ireland
Jan. 27-British battleship Barham sunk in
Mediterranean.
Jan. 29-ANs troops retake Bengazi.
Jan. 31-U S. ships shell Japs in Marshall,
Gilbert islands.
Feb. 10-Finnish troops destroy entire Rus
sian division.
Feb. 15-Singapore falls.
Feb 23-Enemy submarine shells California
coast near Santa Barbara.
Feb. q to March 1-Allies suffer heavy
losses in sea battle in Java Sea.
March 17-Gen. Macarthur arrives in Au-
stralia.
April 18-U. S. planes bomb Tokyo.
May 4-British troops invade Madagascar;
u S. naval forces sink eight Jap ships in
battle off Solomon Islands.
June 3-Jap planes raid Dutch Harbor.
June 7-Japanese land on Kiska Island.
June 20-Jap sub shells Vancouver Island.
June 21-Jap sub shells Fort Stevens, Ore;
Axis troops capture Tobruk, $4,000
prisoners.
June 25-Egypt invaded by German Italian
troops.
July 1-Sevastapol falls to the Nazis. U S.
naval base is opened at Londonderry,
Northern Ireland.
July 11-British strike back in Egypt, push
ing five miles.
July 27-Soviet abandons Rostov.
Aug. 19-United Nations forces raid Dieppe
on French coast.
Aug. 22-Brazl declares war against Ger
many and Italy, the first South American
country to take such action.
Sept. LIMITED States troops take over
bases in Ecuador and Galapagos Islands.
Oct. 17-American troops arrive in Liberia.
Oct. 25-British open attack that drove
Rommel into Tunisia; Japs begin large
scale offensive on Guadalcanal.
Nov. 7-American troops land in north
west Africa.
Nov. 11-Hitler invades unoccupied France.
Fighting ceases in French North Africa.
Nov. 27-French scuttle feet at Toulon.
Dec 5-Allies pushed back in north Tunisia.
Dec. 8-Dakar port, French feet given to
Allies.
Dec. 10-Allies seize Coma in New Guinea.
Dec. 23-Reds smash into Ukraine.
Dec. 4-Admiral Darlan assassinated at
Agiers.
1913
Jan. 20-Chilean government breaks off dip
lomatic relations with Axis.
Jan. 22-Reds break through" to entrap
huge Nazi army before Stalingrad.
Jan. 27-President Roosevelt visits Brazil
for conference on future war plans
Jan. 28-President Roosevelt meets Prime
Minister Churchill in Casablanca, dictate
unconditional surrender" terms u. S.
hiers bomb German naval installations.
Feb. Lit. Gen. Eisenhower named chief
of Allied forces in French Africa Reds
reach Azov, trap 100000 Nazis.
Feb. 9-Announce capture of Guadalcanal
by United States.
Feb. 18-Nazis gain so miles in North
Africa pushing Yanks back.
Feb 20-U. S. ships shell Japs in Aleutians.
Feb. 22-Yanks resume offensive in Tunsia
Feb. 27-Nazis open drive in Donets area.
March 12-Russians take wanna.
March 15-Nazis claim recapture Of Khar-
kov.
March 17-U. S. planes bomb Kiska six
times in one day
March 18-Yanks recapture Gafsa in 90
mile sweep.
March 1S-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower re-
places Maj Gen. Lloyd r. Fredendall as
commander of American troops on the
Tunisian front
March 19-American forces occupy FL Guet-
tar, Tunisia. .NN,
April 4-The Northwest African Strategic
Air Force under Maj Gen. Doolittle strikes
Europe proper for the first time, raiding
Naples.