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Chronology
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January
2-U. S. marines expand hold on Cape
Gloucester, New Britain.
e-American troops capture San Guista.
1.-TWO new Russian offensives are opened.
22-British blast Magdeburg in l,OOO-plane
raid.
27-LENINGRAD CLEARED OF NAILS.
30-Hitler in speech anticipates defeat
February
1-Chinese advance in northern Burma
3-Marines capture Namur and other is
lands in the Marshals.
Gu. S. army takes Kwajalein atou in
Marshalls
16-Heaviest bomb load yet dropped hurled
on Berlin by British bombers.
17-U. S. naval task force attacks Truk,
main Jap base in south Pacific.
19-Japanese cabinet reorganZed, following
attack on Truk
23-U. S. naval task force strikes at Mari
anas islands.
24-An of western New Britain passes to
American control.
29-Stalin offers peace terms to Finland.
March
15-Russian army crosses Bug river.
19-Advancing Russians enter Bessarabia.
26-Russians reach Romanan border
30-Palau islands, 1,600 miles south of ia.
pan, attacked by U. S. navy.
April
2-Russian troops enter Romania.
American planes bomb Austria.
10-ODESSA FALLS TO RUSSIANS.
13-Allied troops halt Jap drive near Ko-
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ga thousand u S. bombers raid Berlin.
30-Japan's mid-Pacific base. Truk, Is raid
ed for 35th time.
May
7-Allied forces in Italy turn back German
counterattack near Anzio.
e-Sevastopol, Black sea naval base, falls
to Russians.
15-Chnese launch counter-offensive in west.
ern Yunnan province.
1s-CASSINO. NAZI STRONGPOINT IN IT.
Ally. FALLS TO AMERICANS AFTER
28-Allied bombers strike at German syn.
thetic oil plants in Leipsig area.
June
4-AMERICAN TROOPS ENTER ROME.
6-INVASION OF CONTINENT BEGINS
WITH LANDINGS IN NORMANDY,
S-Allies in Italy capture port 80 miles
13-Allies advance into northern France,
reaching point Is miles inland
l7-Chinese take Kamaing, Burma.
23-Week.long German robot bombing re-
ported by British.
25-American tank units enter Cherbourg,
important French port
26-Russians capture Vitebsk and Zhlobin.
July
S-NIinsk falls to Russians as they sweep
into Polish territory.
6-Robot bomb casualties and damage In
southern England are admitted to be
serious.
s-British and Canadians enter Caen,
France. anchor of German lines for
27-Six Nad bases, the most important be.
ing Lwow. fall to Russians on various
fronts.
2s-Brest-Litovsk captured by Russians.
30-Allied "break-through' registers large
gains in France.
August
Resistance in Tiniar island in Marshalls
2-Turkey breaks diplomatic relations with
Germany.
10-Guam conquered, giving u S. control of
all important islands of Marshalls.
15-A second Allied invasion force lands on
southern French coast between Mar
19-U s. tank unus reach suburbs of Paris.
20-Southern France invasion force enters
Toulon
sl-Romanian capital, Bucharest is entered
by Russians.
September
films and Russians cease fighting In
truce.
S-Russia declares war on Bulgaria.
britain lifts black-out regulations, con-
Sfdering menace from air conquered
n-American First army pushes five miles
12-Romania granted armstice by Allies
13-Russians reach border of Czechoslo-
vakia.
14-U. s. Third fleet attacks Cebu and Ne.
gros islands of the Philippines.
16-Second Quebec conference ends. Plans
for quick finish of European war and Of
marshaling of forces for Japanese front
are made
19-Finnish armistice signed by Russia and
22-Russians take Tallinn, capital of Estonia
3o-Russians gain 6o-mile-wide bridgehead
in Yugoslavia
October
1-Calais. French channel port falls to AL.
lies
S-Siegfried line preached at Uebach by
u. s. Fifth army.
4-U. S. bombers raid Borneo oil fields.
6-Russians cross Hungarian border.
11-East Prussian border reached by Rus
17-U. S. troops enter Aachen, important
German border city.
2o--AMERIcAN FORCES UNDER GEN.
MACARTHUR INVADE PHILIPPINES,
LANDING ON LEYTE ISLAND.
Moscow conference between Stain and
Churchill ends
26-U. S. navy meets and defeats huge Jap
feet between Philippines and Formosa.
November
4-An German forces driven from Greece.
flaps gain in China, advancing on rail
city Of Liuchow. Meanwhile British
troops drive back Japs in Burma
11-U. S. planes sink eight Jap warships
14-British bombers sink Tirpitz, famous
German battleship, in Norwegian port
16-Great Allied drive launched on 300-mile
front from Holland to Vosges.
20-French troops reach Rhine river In
plunge through Belfort gap
21--Lieut. Gen. Patton leads Third army in
drive % miles beyond Metz.
M-B-29s bomb Tokyo factories from base in
Marianas, 1850 miles away.
27-Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark is made COM
mander in chief of U. S. army forces in
Italy.
20--U S. Third army attacks forts at Saar-
brucken. Saarlautern. and Merzig.
First and Ninth armies capture border
towns.
s0-U. S. planes sink 10 Jap transports and
three destroyers. drowning 1000 near
Leyte