Table of Data Points

Tag : United States

1945-05-011945-08-01Borneo

Australian I Corps troops under, under General Morshead, attacked Japanese troops holding the island. The campaign isolated a large number of Japanese troops, captured major oil supplies and freed many Allied prisoners.

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1945-04-29Dachau Liberated

Troops from the 42nd and 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army liberate Dachau concentration camp. They discover approximately 32,000 prisoners, crammed 1,600 to each of 20 barracks, which had been designed to house 250 people each.

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1945-04-291945-05-07Operation Mana

Royal and U.S. Air Force planes drop over 11,000 tons of food to un-liberated areas of the Netherlands to relieve starvation of civilians suffering from the Dutch Famine.

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1945-04-25Elbe Day

Soviet troops from the 1st Ukrainian front meet reconnaissance troops from the US First Army on the east bank of the Elbe river near Torgau. An important milestone in the sequence of events leading to the destruction of the Third Reich.

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1945-04-20Leipzig Captured

US troops of the 69th Infantry Division captures Leipzig. In July 1945 the U.S. turned the city over to the Red Army as it pulled back to occupation zone boundaries.

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1945-04-16Colditz Liberated

US Troops liberate the town of Colditz and the notorious prisoner of war camp Oflag IV-C.

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1945-04-12Roosevelt dies in office

President Roosevelt dies in office from a massive cerebral hemorrhage.

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1945-04-11Buchenwald Liberated

US troops liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. One of the first and largest concentration camp on German soil

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1945-04-07Yamato Sunk

Having been hit by multiple bombs and torpedoes, the Japanese Battleship Yamato rolls and then explodes. An estimated 3,055 of her 3,332 crew were lost, including Vice-Admiral Seiichi Ito.

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1945-04-04Ohrdruf

Troops from the 4th Armored Division and the 89th Infantry Division liberate Ohrdruf concentration camp near Weimar in Germany. It was part of the Buchenwald concentration camp network and was the first camp liberated by US forces.

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