Table of Data Points

Tag : Combat

1945-03-11Operation Tan No. 2

Of 24 "Frances" twin-engine bombers, which were sent on a long-range Kamikaze mission directed at the main Allied naval fleet anchorage at Ulithi atol, only two arrived to damage the USS Randolph.

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1945-03-10Tokyo Firebombing

Over 100,000 people are killed when the 334 B-29s of the United States Army Air Forces drop incendiary bombs on Tokyo. Approximately 267,000 buildings are destroyed.

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1945-03-081945-03-15Meatgrinder

Following a series of disastrous assaults, General Erskine orders the 9th Marine Regiment to attack at night, without preliminary artillery bombardment. The tactics are more effective and eventually the mutually supporting positions are overwhelmed.

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1945-03-07The Bridge at Remagen

Troops of the U.S. Army's 9th Armored Division capture the Ludendorff bridge, allowing them to establish a bridgehead across the Rhine.

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1945-03-04Dinah Might Lands

The first of thousands of B-29s to follow, the 'Dinah Might', low on fuel and damaged, makes an emergency landing on airstrip number 1 on Iwo Jima, 21 days before the island is entirely in allied hands.

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1945-02-23Iwo 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.

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1945-02-23Los Banos

US 11th Airborne troops and Filipino guerrillas free prisoners at the Los Banos internment camp.

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1945-02-23Poznan Liberatted

The German garrison at Poznan capitulates and the city is captured by Soviet and Polish forces.

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1945-02-23Pforzheim destoryed

Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.

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1945-02-23Verona Bombed

The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is bombed by Allied forces.

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