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 | 1945-02-03 | Operation Thunderclap | 1,000 B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin. | Read about 'Operation Thunderclap' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Thunderclap' | |
| 1945-01-09 | 1945-08-15 | Battle of Luzon | The Allies had taken control of all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon by March, although pockets of Japanese resistance held out in the mountains until the unconditional surrender of Japan. | Read about 'Battle of Luzon' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Luzon' |
| 1945-01-02 | Nuremburg Bombed | The medieval city centre was systematically bombed by the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Forces and about ninety percent of it was destroyed in only one hour, with 1,800 residents killed and roughly 100,000 displaced. | Read about 'Nuremburg Bombed' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Nuremburg Bombed' | |
| 1945-01-01 | Unternehmen Bodenplatte | The final major Luftwaffe offensive during the war and a massive effort to disable allied air power in the low countries. The effort was ultimately a pyrrhic tactical success. Allied losses were replaced in weeks. | Read about 'Unternehmen Bodenplatte' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Unternehmen Bodenplatte' | |
| 1944-12-18 | Hankow Bombing | 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base. | Read about 'Hankow Bombing' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Hankow Bombing' | |
| 1944-11-16 | Duren Destroyed | During 1944 and 1945, the protracted and bloody Battle for Hurtgenwald was fought on Duren's district area. Duren was completely destroyed by Allied air bombings. | Read about 'Duren Destroyed' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Duren Destroyed' | |
| 1944-11-12 | Tirpitz Sunk | The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromso, Norway. | Read about 'Tirpitz Sunk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Tirpitz Sunk' | |
| 1944-10-23 | 1944-10-26 | Leyte Gulf | Largest battle in the history of naval warfare. After US troops invaded Leyte island ,as part of a strategy aimed at isolating Japan from the countries it had occupied in SE Asia, Japan mobilized nearly all it's vesels in an attempt to defeat the invasion. | Read about 'Leyte Gulf' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Leyte Gulf' |
| 1944-10-21 | HMAS Australia Kamikazi | HMAS Australia is the target of the first kamikaze of the war. She is hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began. | Read about 'HMAS Australia Kamikazi ' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'HMAS Australia Kamikazi ' | |
| 1944-10-20 | MacArthur Returns | Allied forces under MacArthur's command, covered by aircraft from Halsey's carriers, landed at Leyte Island, fulfilling MacArthur's vow to return to the Philippines. | Read about 'MacArthur Returns' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'MacArthur Returns' |
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