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 | 1945-02-23 | Iwo Jima Flag Raising | Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. | Read about 'Iwo Jima Flag Raising' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Iwo Jima Flag Raising' | |
| 1945-02-23 | Los Banos | US 11th Airborne troops and Filipino guerrillas free prisoners at the Los Banos internment camp. | Read about 'Los Banos' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Los Banos' | |
| 1945-02-23 | Poznan Liberatted | The German garrison at Poznan capitulates and the city is captured by Soviet and Polish forces. | Read about 'Poznan Liberatted' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Poznan Liberatted' | |
| 1945-02-19 | 1945-03-26 | Iwo Jima | Of the more than 18,000 Japanese soldiers charged with the defense of Iwo Jima, the first of the Japanese Home Islands, only 216 survive the battle. This was the only battle in the Pacific where US casualties (KIA+Wounded) outnumbered Japanese casualties. | Read about 'Iwo Jima' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Iwo Jima' |
| 1945-02-17 | Demolition swimmers. | When swimmers from underwater demolition teams arrived, the big guns on the northern cliffs opened fire on covering gunboats, believing it was part of an invasion force. The guns were knocked out immediately. The single failure of fire discipline. | Read about 'Demolition swimmers.' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Demolition swimmers.' | |
| 1945-02-08 | 1945-03-11 | Veritable | The British & Canadian assault on the most heavily fortified section of the Siegfried Line. The operation was complicated when German defenders blew the Ruhr dams, flooding the area downstream and severely limiting offensive operations. | Read about 'Veritable' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Veritable' |
| 1945-02-03 | 1945-03-03 | Manila | Manila was the scene of the worst urban combat in the Pacific conflict and culminated in the total devastation of the city. The fall of the city ended almost three years of Japanese occupation in the Philippines. | Read about 'Manila' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Manila' |
| 1945-01-30 | Raid at Cabanatuan | US Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas raid and liberate 512 POWs from the Japanese camp near Cabanatuan. | Read about 'Raid at Cabanatuan' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Raid at Cabanatuan' | |
| 1945-01-28 | Burma Road Open | Supply trucks begin to reach China over the newly re-opened Burma road. | Read about 'Burma Road Open' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Burma Road Open' | |
| 1945-01-27 | Auschwitz Liberated | Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Over one million men, women and children had been murdered at the camp since it's creation in 1940. | Read about 'Auschwitz Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Auschwitz Liberated' |
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