Table of Data Points
1945-05-01 | 1945-08-01 | Borneo | 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. | Read about 'Borneo' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Borneo' | |
1945-04-30 | Hitler kills himself | With Soviet troops advancing through Berlin, Adolf hitler and his wife Eva Braun commit suicide in the Fuehrerbunker. Their bodies are burned in a bomb crater by SS Sturmbannuhrer Otto Gunsche and other Fhrerbunker aides. | Read about 'Hitler kills himself' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Hitler kills himself' | ||
1945-04-30 | 1945-05-02 | Reichstag falls | German defenders, who have entrenched themselves in the burnt out rubble of the Reichstag, fight room to room to prevent the fall of the government building. It takes two days for Soviet troops to clear the building entirely. | Read about 'Reichstag falls' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Reichstag falls' | |
1945-04-29 | Mussolini's End | Having been shot the previous day, the mutilated bodies of Mussonlini, his mistress and several other Fascist officials are taken to the Piazzale Loreto in Milan and hung upside down on meat hooks. | Read about 'Mussolini's End' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Mussolini's End' | ||
1945-04-29 | Dachau 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. | Read about 'Dachau Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Dachau Liberated' | ||
1945-04-29 | 1945-05-07 | Operation 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. | Read about 'Operation Mana' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Mana' | |
1945-04-29 | Fornovo di Taro Liberated | The commune at Fornovo di Tar is liberated by Brazilian troops. | Read about 'Fornovo di Taro Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Fornovo di Taro Liberated' | ||
1945-04-27 | Mussolini Captured | Benito Mussolini, his mistress and several other high ranking officials from the Fascist regime are captured by a group of Italian partisans lead by Urbano Lazzaro. | Read about 'Mussolini Captured' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Mussolini Captured' | ||
1945-04-27 | Germany out of Finland | The last German troops withdraw from Finland ending the Lapland War. | Read about 'Germany out of Finland' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Germany out of Finland' | ||
1945-04-26 | German Troops withdraw | The last German troops withdraw from Genoa. The German General Meinhold surrendered to the Committee of National Liberation (CLN). | Read about 'German Troops withdraw' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'German Troops withdraw' |
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