Detroit evening times., 1945-05-09
The Detroit

Oct. 24-U. S. warships sink 25 Jap fleet
units in battle of Leyte Gulf. MacAr-
thurs troops land on Samar Island. r
Oct. 28-Bulgaria signs armistice. ~
Nov. 5-U. S. planes bomb Singapore, first
time in two years.
Nov. 12-German battleship Tirpitz sunk in
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-Germans 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 Lngayen Gulf, Lu-
zon; Nazis 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. 1l-Reds take Warsaw, Krakow.
Ian. 18-Reds smash into German Silesia.
Jan. 20-Nazis open short-lived drive
through Alsace
JAM 30-Yanks land north of Bataan, seal
off peninsula.
Jan. 31-Rangers 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 confer
at Yalta in the Crimea.
Feb. 9-Canadian First Army starts drive
Feb. 13-Budapest falls.
Feb 14-Nazs blasted in 600O-plane at
tack; Yanks take Cavite.
Feb. 15-Canadians reach Rhine: u. S.
casualties hit 1872, 180; dead, 1885,
Feb. 16-Tokyo hit by 1,200 navy planes
Feb 17-Marines invade Two Jma, $50
miles from Tokyo; army units land on
Corregidor.
Feb 18-Corregidor captured.
Feb 23-Yanks cross Roer River, second
D-Day
March 6-Yanks take Cologne
March 7-Yanks seize bridge, cross Rhine
at Rem agen. Reds start drive on
Berlin.
March 15-United States sets up first mill
tary government east of Rhine at
Remagen.
March 16-Tweve square miles Of Kobe
razed by B-29s Third and Seventh
Army offensives in full swing.
March 20-Nazis collapse in Saar; British
take Mandalay.
March 24-Twenty first Army Group
crosses Rhine into the Ruhr in last
great offensive on Western Front
March 25-Patton swee so miles east Of
Rhine.
March 27-Nazis whipped, Eisenhower an
nounces.
March 28-Gdynia falls to Reds
March 29-Reds enter Austria; Duisberg
Mannheim fall in west
March 30-Danzig falls; British task force
joins American Pacific fleet.
April 1-Yanks land on Okinawa
April 5-Gen. Macarthur and Adm Nimitz
named to head Pacific forces after
We Day.
April 6-Reds enter Vienna.
April Jap feet beaten in East China
Sea-
April 12-President Roosevelt dies; Vice
President Truman takes office; Ninth
Army reaches Ebe River, halts.
April 14-Reds smash into Berlin's outer
forts.
April 16-Yanks, British open last drive in
Italy.
April 19-Yanks take Leipzig; Ruhr pocket
wiped out.
April 20-Patton enters Czecho-Slovakia.
April 21-French force opens Bordeau
port.
April 22-Reds enter Berlin
April 24-Gen. Petain surrenders.
April 25-Patton reaches Danube.
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