WWII - 65 Years Ago

[D.A.T.]

January 14, 1945 -- Death marches to the interior of Germany begin, taking 250,000 Jewish lives.

 

http://www.aish.com/ho/h/48018567.html

[Gregory]

January 14, 1945

 

The beginning of Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay in the Burma campaign.

[55rab]

January 16, 1945

 

In the Ardennes, the US First and Third Armies link up at Houffalize.

[Gregory]

January 17, 1945

 

So-called "liberation" of Warsaw. In fact exchange of one terrorist occupation into other one.

[D.A.T.]

Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 27, 1945

 

Beware, some graphic pictures.

 

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScr...Liberation.html

[55rab]

January 27, 1945

 

Troops from Patton’s Third Army cross the Our and take Oberhausen.

[55rab]

February 4, 1945

 

US air attacks on the island of Iwo Jima are stepped up in preparation for landings on Feb. 19.

[55rab]

February 9, 1945

 

German resistance around Colmar comes to an end.

[D.A.T.]

13th February 1945 - Anniversary of the destruction of Dresden

 

http://www.dresden.de/en/02/07/c_035.php

[55rab]

February 23, 1945

 

US marines raise the Stars and Stripes on top of Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima.

[55rab]

March 3, 1945

 

Japanese resistance in Manila comes to an end after a month of fighting.

[55rab]

March 5, 1945

 

15 and 16 year old boys are called up to serve in the German army.

[D.A.T.]

March 7th, 1945: German engineers having failed to blow it, advance units of the US First Army capture the Ludendorff railway bridge at Remagen, the last remaining bridge across the Rhine, allowing US troops to gain a first foothold on the east bank of the river.

 

http://www.herrlichkeit-erpel.de/Englische...Bruecke_eng.htm

 

http://www.bruecke-remagen.de/index_en.htm

[D.A.T.]

Just a little more info on the bridge.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=13211

 

If interested, check out the SEARCH, lot of interesting subjects in here.

[D.A.T.]

March 9 and 10, 1945 Over Tokyo

 

http://flgrube1.tripod.com/id13.html

[D.A.T.]

Allies Open Final Drive In Germany, 15th March 1945

 

http://www.videojug.com/film/allies-open-f...15th-march-1945

[D.A.T.]

Remagen, the Ludendorff Bridge collapses.

Later on March 17, ten days after its capture, the bridge suddenly collapsed into the Rhine. Twenty-eight U.S. Army engineers were killed while working to strengthen the bridge, and 93 others were injured. However, by then the Americans had established a substantial bridgehead on the far side of the Rhine and had additional pontoon bridges in place.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/c_bates/4387401450/

[Richard Kimmel]

All of the following took place on my 10th birthday ... April 29, 1945

 

April 29th, 1945: The British Second Army crosses the Elbe at Lauenburg, 20 miles E of Hamburg, and advances toward Schwerin and Wismar in Mecklenburg. The French First Army (de Tassigny) captures Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. In the battle of Berlin, the Red Army has now captured most of the city except for the area around the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichskanzlei and the Reichstag which is still fiercely defended by isolated units of the Waffen-SS.

[D.A.T.]

March 24th, 1945 "Operation Varsity: Allied Airborne Assault Over the Rhine River"

 

http://www.historynet.com/operation-varsit...rhine-river.htm

[D.A.T.]

The last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London, March 28, 1945. That must have made some people happy.

 

http://www.espasyo.com/2010/03/28/today-ma...945-in-history/

[jon prince]

April 1st 1945, U.S. Army and Marine units begin landing on Okinawa in Operation 'Iceberg'. In two and a half months of fighting U.S. forces would suffer 50,000 killed, wounded and missing. At Sea the U.S. Navy would experience it's highest losses of any Campaign in W.W.2 with nearly 5000 men killed. Japanese military losses would be estimated at 110,000 killed whilst the civilian population would suffer a similar number killed, wounded or committed suicide. Sort of makes you understand why dropping Atomic bombs seemed like such a good idea at the time.

 

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/fac...nawa-battle.htm

[D.A.T.]

SURRENDER OF THE GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP AT OHRDRUF, April 4th, 1945

http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Wi...NickolsEng.html

[55rab]

April 7, 1945

 

US carrier planes sink the giant Japanese battleship Yamato off Okinawa.

[D.A.T.]

April 11th, 1945, the U.S. Army liberates Buchenwald concentration camp.

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/Liberation4.html

[55rab]

April 12, 1945

 

President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.