Detroit evening times., 1945-03-01

supplies onto the French coast.
June ALLIES take Bayeaux, FIVE miles In
land from invasion coast; push toward
Caen.
June 15-Marines, soldiers invade saipan;
BIOS hit Japan.
June 26-Allies- take -Cherbourg: Russians
take Vitebsk
July 11-Reds report prewar Russia cleared
of Germans.
July 17-Soviet troops cross border Of
Latvia.
July 18-Americans clear st. Lo; British
break out of Caen, Normandy; Reds cross
Bug River
July 19-American forces land an Guam.
July 25-The breakthrough at st. Lo, Nor
mandy.
July Pit. Cen Leslie McNair killed in
action.
Aug. III. S. troops enter Brittany through
Avranches; Reds reach Gulf of Riga:
Nimitz forces take Tinian Island
Aug. Turkey sewers diplomatic relations
with Germany; Myitkyina falls.
Aug. Fifth Army troops enter Florence.
Aug. 15-American and French troops land
on the south French coast between Mar
seilles and Nice '---Q Q--
Aug. 19-U S. tanks enter Paris.
Aug. 23-Romania surrenders
Aug. 25-Germans surrender Paris. -
Aug. 28-Reds invade Pennsylvania (Hr
gary); take Constanta
Aug. 31-U. S. forces cross Meuse River,
reach old Maginot Line
Sept. American troops enter Belgium at
Sedan; Canadians take Dieppe.
Sept. 2-Reds reach Romania Bulgarian
border; Allies take Pisa.
Sept. 4-British tanks roll through Brus.
sefs, Antwerp to Dutch border. Ameri-
cans reach German border in Belgium;
Finland makes peace.
Sept. t6-fhe First Army fires the first
American shells of the war into German
territory near Aachen; Churchill and
Roosevelt meet at Quebec.
Sept. 11-Cty of Luxembourg liberated.
Sept 12-U. S. forces take Rotgen, inside
Germany. Nazis surrender LeHavre. All
Allied armies are now in contact with
each other along the German border
Sept 15-Maastricht, first Dutch territory
liberated, is occupied by American troops
Sept 17-U. S. 14th Air Force starts aban-
donment of bases in China; u. S. troops
land in Pafau group.
Sept. 20-Brest garrison surrenders.
Sept 30-Russians drive six miles into
Yugosavia
Oct. Pole resistance forces surrender In
Oct. 1O-Reds reach the Baltic Sea north
of Memel
Oct. 13--Germans evacuate Athens
Oct. 19-SiXth Army troops land on Leyte
Oct. 24-U. S. warships sink % Jap fleet
units in battle of Leyte Gulf. MacAr-
thurs troops land on Samar Island.
Oct. 28-Bulgaria signs armstice.
Nov. 81. s. planes bomb Singapore, first
time in two years.
Nov. 12-German battleship Tirpitz sunk ~
northern Norway.
Nov. 20-Patton's troops enter Metz.
French take Mulhouse.
Nov. 24-Allies take Strasbourg.
Dec. British fight Greek ELIAS units in
Athens.
Dec. 8-Ports of LeHavre, Rouen and Ant
werp opened for traffic by u. S. Army.
Dec. 16-G erm ans start counterattack
through Ardennes that carried so miles
into Belgium.
Dec. 22-British strike to stop Nazs' Ar
dennes drive Reds open Baltic offensive.
Dec. 23-Patton strikes southern edge OF
Nazi bulge. Allied planes strike.
Dec. 25-Nazi Ardennes drive halted; Buda-
pest encircled
Dec. 29-Germans beaten back In Belgium.
Jan. 10-Yanks land on Lingayen Gulf, Lu-
zon; Nazs flee Ardennes.
Jan. 13-Naval units smash 46 Jap ships
off Luzon.
Jan. 15-Reds lash out In drive for Ger
many with 215 divisions.
Jan. 17-Reds take Warsaw, Krakow.
Jan. 1S-Reds smash into German Silesia,
Jan. 20-Nazs open short-Gved drive
through Alsace.
Jan. 30-Yanks land north of Bataan, seal
off peninsula.
Jan. Changers free $40 prisoners at Ca
bantuan, Luzon; Reds smash TO Oder
River, 80 miles from Berlin.
Feb. 2-More Yanks land south OF Manila.
Feb. 1.-Two Yank divisions enter Manila,
rescue 300 internees.
Feb. 6-Reds cross Oder near Breslau.
Feb stain, Churchill, Roosevelt con
at Yalta in the Crimea.
Feb 9-Canadian First Army starts drive.