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

22-mile front.
February 8-Montgomery launch
es British Canadian offensive.
February 13--Budapest falls to
Reds after 49-day siege.
February 16-United States car,
riers send 200 planes over Tokyo.
February 18-Paratroops land on
Corregidor.
February 19-Yanks invade Two
Jima.
February 21-United States Sd
opens mass assault on Saar Basin.
February 22-Inter- American Con-
ference at Mexico City.
February 23-Turkey declares war
on Axis.
February "a Manila liberated,
Macarthur reports.
February 27-Reds smash A miles
through Pomeranian Notifications.
March limited States 9Th cap
lures MI 'nchen- Gladbach, Ruhr.
land city.
March Red Baltic drive cuts
off Danzig from Germany.
WAL vi SA4uCLACahs ICACh bHo
Rhine, capture Krefeld and Neuss;
Sd takes Trier.
March 6-United States LIST cap
lures Cologne, Sd opens sweeping
drive toward Coblenz.
March limited States Sd reaches
the Rhine.
March Russians hurl seven
armies into about offensive toward
Berlin from Oder bridgeheads.
March 8-Yanks smash across the
Rhine on captured bridge at Renna-
gen.
March 1880 B-29s set Tokyo
ablaze in wars greatest raid.
March l2- Russians capture
Kuestrin in Berlin drive.
March 1.-Two Jima falls to
Americans
March 18-United States Sd Army
captures Coblenz. Ludendorff Bridge
at Remagen collapses. Berlin hit by
Raj Mosquitoes on 34th consecutive
day Of Allied attack.
March 19-2o-United States Navy
planes hit japanese imperial fleet,
bottled in homelands inland sea.
March 20-United States Sd and
7th Armies join in the Saar-
land, capture Saarbruecken, Zwei-
breucken and Worms. Patton en-
tiers Mainz.
March 22-United States Sd Army
crosses the Rhine.
March 24-Four Allied armies
British I'd, Canadian 1st. United
States 9th and Allied Air-borne-
swarm across the Rhine on wide
front; Russians advance A miles in
Hungary,
March 26-Rhine offensive sweeps
inland; United States Sd Army
pierces Frankfurt on Main and
plunges into Central German plains;
United States 18th Army forces
Rhine crossings: United States list
Army smashes forward to Limburg
suburbs; United States 9th sweeps
II miles eastward.
March 30-United States 1st Army
snaps lock on the Ruhr by Selling
Paderborn: Russians reach Vienna's
Mira River defense line, and in
wade Austria; also seize Danzig.
| April 1-Bacold, capital Of Negros
Island. Philippines, falls to Amer
leans.
/ April New U. S. 10th Army
lands on Okinawa Island, 325 miles
south Of Japan.
April 2-Americans trap 81 d..
visions of Nazis in the Ruhr pocket;
British and Canadians sweep into
northern Holland. -
/ April 3.-Yanks cut Okinawa In
two in rapid drive against weak
japanese resistance.
/ April 4-U. S. Sd Army takes
Kassel Gotha and Suhl. Tanks
reach Thuringian Plain, 100 miles
southwest Of Berlin; British armor
crosses Weser and Ems Rivers In
drive toward Bremen; French take
Karlsruhe on the Rhine: U. S. It'll
perils Nuremberg.
April Russians take Bratislava
by storm, clear Hungary Of Nazis and
slash into Vienna's suburbs.
April 5-Premier Kuniaki Koiso's
Tokyo cabinet falls; Russians de-
nounce the Russo Japanese neutral
ity pact. Gen. Macarthur and Ad-
miral Nimitz are named supreme
land and sea commanders in the
Pacific.
I April 6-Allies break Weser River
line, take Hamm, Wurzburg and
seal off main escape lane from Hol-
land.
/ April limited States Sd Army
finds German gold bullion reserve
and millions in United States and
/ foreign currency in Thuringen For
est salt mine.
| April Limited States carrier
planes sink 45,000-ton superbattle-
ship Yamoto and five other warships
in East China Sea off Okinawa.
April 9-Russians capture East
Prussian capital of Koenigsberg.
! April 1o-Hannover falls to United
States 9th Army.
i April 11-United States 9th Army
takes Essen: So Army takes Coburg
British disclose German battleship
Admiral Scheer sunk.
! April 1l-Spain sewers relations
with Japan.
| April 11-Allies take offensive in
Italy; British 9th Army captures
Lugo, Fusignano and Cotignola.
April 12-President Franklin D.!
Roosevelt, s., dies at Warm Springs,
Ca; Harry S. Truman becomes SD
United States President.
April 12-United States eth Army
tanks hurdle Elbe River 50 miles
east of Berlin.
April 13-Vienna falls to Russians,
more than 10000 Nazis captured.
April l5-French I'd Army attacks
Royan in drive to open port of Bor-.
deaux.
April 1S-United States Sd Army
crosses Czech border; Magdeburg
falls.
April l9-Ruhr pocket Is wiped
out; Allies net 3l6,930 prisoners.
Leipzig falls to United States list
Army.
April 2o-Hitler's 56th birthday.
Nuremberg, Nazidom's shrine city,"
falls to United States 7th Army.