Diary February 8, 1945
Diary for Thursday, February 8, 1945: Western Front Canadians advance into Reichswald southeast of Nijmegen, between Maas and Rhine (Operation Veritable).
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Diary for Thursday, February 8, 1945: Western Front Canadians advance into Reichswald southeast of Nijmegen, between Maas and Rhine (Operation Veritable).
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Diary for Wednesday, February 7, 1945: Air War Europe: RAF night attack on German forces at Kleve and Goch.
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Diary for Tuesday, February 6, 1945: Russian Front Konev crosses the river Oder and lays siege to Breslau: hundreds of thousands of panic-stricken German civilians flee westwards, many into ‘safe’
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Diary for Monday, February 5, 1945: Western Front Alsace: Colmar Pocket cut in two as US and French troops link up. Air War Germany: 238 RAF bombers attacking Bonn. 589
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Diary for Sunday, February 4, 1945: Politics YALTA CONFERENCE (‘Magneto’): Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet in Crimea. Latter succeeds in winning big concessions from ailing US President, including free hand
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Diary for Saturday, February 3, 1945: Air War Germany: 937 B-17 Fortress, escorted by 900 fighters (24 planes lost), RAID BERLIN setting fire to 5 sq km in central districts
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Diary for Friday, February 2, 1945: Western Front Alsac: French and Americans enter Colmar.
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Diary for Thursday, February 1, 1945 Russian Front Poland: Rokossovsky captures Torun after 6-day siege. Western Front Alsace: US 7th Army crosses river Moder.
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Diary for Wednesday, February 28, 1945: Western Front US 1st Army crosses river Erth, 10 km from Cologne. Politics Allied-occupied Iran declares war on Japan. Saudi Arabia declares war on
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Diary for Tuesday, February 27, 1945: Russian Front Rokossovsky drives into Pomerania. Politics French-occupied Lebanon declares war on Germany and Japan.
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Diary for Monday, February 26, 1945: Air War Germany: 8th USAAF carries out 3,000 t. raid with 1,112 bombers on Berlin; 1/2 Million incendiaries dropped. Main targets: 3 railway stations
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Diary for Sunday, February 25, 1945: Western Front 1st and 9th US Armies break German defenses at river Roer west of Cologne, capturing Düren and Jülich.
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Diary for Saturday, February 24, 1945: Philippines Americans crush desperate Japanese resistance in the Intramuros Âold walled quarter of Manila. Air War Germany: Colonel Ivan Kojedub, top scoring Russian (and
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Diary for Friday, February 23, 1945: Pacific Iwo Jima: Marines take Mt Suribachi. Hoisting of US flag captured in classic photograph by Joe Rosenthal. Russian Front Poland – Siege of
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Diary for Thursday, February 22, 1945: Air War Europe – OPERATION CLARION: 9,000 Allied bombers and fighters from bases in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Italy attack rail and road
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