Diary March 26, 1945

War Diary, 03-1945, Diary WW2, Year 1945 / 1 minute of reading

Rocket barrage on Japanese positions during the final battles at Iwo Jima.

Diary for Monday, March 26, 1945:

Sea War

Pacific: British Pacific Fleet (TF 57) launches first of many air strikes against airfields on Sakishima Gunto Islands between Okinawa and Formosa.
Indian Ocean: British destroyers and B-24 Liberator bombers annihilate Japanese convoy.

Pacific

AMERICANS SECURE IWO JIMA.

Iwo Jima Campaign Losses:

	Japanese	US
dead	20,703	4,630
wounded	-	15,309
PoWs	216	-

Western Front

Patton’s tanks cross Bavarian border. British troops capture Rees, near Wesel.

Home Fronts

Britain: Death of David Lloyd-George (Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor an Prime Minister in World War One); aged 83.
Russia: Marshal Boris M. Shaposhnikov, former personal military adviser to Stalin and Red Army‘s greatest strategist, dies after protracted illness; aged 62.

About The Author

Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.