The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-17
The Victory Year
portentous Year Studded
With Exciting History OF
World Free OF War

q lingering death, the Allie
placed their hopes for a lasting
peace in the trusteeship of tn
United Nations, 4 world organiza
ton born out of the sufferings o
war.
The day-by-day history Of tina
yortentous year, 1945, reads lik,
4 novel:
JANUARY
EThe American Eighth All
Force establishes a new winter
record Of twelve consecutive day,
Of bombing.
5-Moscow recognizes the Polish
Provisional Government. u. S
and Britain continue to back thu
Polish Government in exile in Lon
don.
8-Americans put squeeze or
Belgian bulge and shell last es
cape route.
o American troops land or
Luzon, establishing four beach.
heads IN the shores Of Lingayer
Cult. -,
18-Warsaw, after more thar
five years under Nazi rule, is TAX
On by Russian and Polish troops.
21-Hungary surrenders uncon-
ditionally to the Allies, declaring
war on Germany at the same
time.
28-Convoy over the Leo-Burma
Road arrives in China, making the
first delivery since April, 1912.
FEBRUARY
= Roosevelt, stain, and
Churchill meet at Yalta to plan
joint military operations against
Germany.
14-Russians take Budapest aft
q a fifty-day siege.
Is - Twelve hundred carrier
planes launch full scale offensive
against Tokyo area.
49, General Macarthur forces
land on Corregidor after re-taking
Bataan.
1.-Two Jima invaded by U. S.
Marines.
% - Seven t II ousan d Allied
planes paralyze German commun-
ications.
23-Marines raise flag on Mount
6uribachi.
23-Americans smash across the
Roer west Of Cologne, after mas
sive artillery barrage.
25-rurkey declares war on Ger.
many and Japan.
24-Manila' liberation is stm.
pleted after three weeks of bloody
fighting.
"a - Premier Ahmed Maher
Pasha Of Egypt is shot and killed
by an assassin after reading royal
decree declaring war against Ger
many and Japan.
27-Berlin is subjected to heavi-
est air attack Of war to date.
81 - Churchill calls Declaration
Of Yalta the worlds best hope of
peace" In speech to Commons;
holds Curzon Line fairest possible
boundary between Russia and Po-
land.
MARCH
2Americans reach Rhine river
ut two points.
eunited States First Army
captures Cologne.
11-Allies control west bank Of
Rhine from Netherlands to Co.
blenz.
II - American troops land on
Mlndanao, second largest Of the
Philippine Islands.
13-President R ooseve1t re
quests Congress to appropriate
1913, 7l9, 153,050 for the Navy for the
fiscal year 1856.
II - Organized resistance ends
On Two Island after rs days Of
costly fighting.
H-American forces capture Co
hlenz, ancient Rhine City.
23-Four Allied Armies launch
massive drives across Rhine
River.
25-Russia begins new offensive
across western Hungary.
a. Argentina becomes Omitted
Nation" by declaring war on ia
pan and Germany.
N-Three thousand Allied tank
plunge deep into Germany on sew
enth day Of Eisenhower's "victor,
offensive"
APRIL
2-American troops invade Ok
Aawa.
@Soviet Union denounces it
neutrality pact with Japan.
s. General Macarthur to hea,
all Army forces. Admiral Ninitz
al Navy forces.
Fifty thousand Japanese i
Burma erased after three week
Of fighting.
11-American tanks reach Elb
River at Magdeberg, SO mile
from Berlin.
IL Vienna falls to Russia.
troops.
16-Allied armies launch all-ou
offensive in Italy.
18-U. S. Third Army crosse
Czech border, dividing German
into two parts.
19-U. S. First Army capture
Leipzig.
19-Russians launch great driv
20 take Berlin.
2o-Nuremberg falls to U.
Seventh Army.
70-RAF sinks Germany's las