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2020 marks 75 years since 1945. It’s a year that will commemorate many anniversaries tied to the end of World War II and the rise of a new world order.
As part of our World War II coverage, we’ll be tweeting out the front page of The Times every day, beginning with Jan. 1, 1945. Follow along here.
Jan. 1, 1945: Patton Opens a New Drive Into Nazis’ Flank; Western Tip of Salient Again Smashed Back; Hitler Bars a Surrender, Warns Defeatists https://nyti.ms/2Q8QD2q ">https://nyti.ms/2Q8QD2q&q...
Jan. 2nd, 1945: 3D Army Drills Into Salient Above Bastogne; Germans Attack 7th in Diversion to South; Luftwaffe Raids Airfields, Loses 241 Planes https://nyti.ms/2MG8xYf ">https://nyti.ms/2MG8xYf&q...
Jan. 3rd, 1945: Attacking Nazis Broaden Saar Basin Front; Gain Two Miles in Drive to Clear Reich Soil; Patton Meets Stiffer Resistance in Belgium https://nyti.ms/2SDa0Cb ">https://nyti.ms/2SDa0Cb&q...
Jan. 4, 1945: 1st Army Opens Drive at Top of Belgian Bulge; 3D Gains Beyond Bastogne, 7th Forced Back; U.S. Fliers Bomb Luzon, Formosa and Japan https://nyti.ms/39nijIh ">https://nyti.ms/39nijIh&q...
Jan. 5, 1945: 1st Army Drives 3 Miles in Sleet Into Bulge; Neck of Salient Now 11 Miles as 3D Gains Too; 7th to the South Gives Up Foothold in Reich https://nyti.ms/37o5r2R ">https://nyti.ms/37o5r2R&q...
Jan. 6, 1945: Allies Cut 3 Miles into Nazi Bulge in North But 3D and 7th Are Hard Pressed in South; Americans Land on New Island Near Luzon https://nyti.ms/39pGndF ">https://nyti.ms/39pGndF&q...
Jan. 7, 1945: Roosevelt Demands a National Service Act, Draft of Nurses and 4FS, Postwar Training; 1st Army Smashes Deeper into Belgian Bulge https://nyti.ms/39qdHBk ">https://nyti.ms/39qdHBk&q...
Jan. 8, 1945: Americans Cut a Main Road in Belgian Bulge; Nazis Strike Across Rhine Near Strasbourg; U.S. Ships Shelling Gulf on Luzon, Tokyo Says https://nyti.ms/37mxlw7 ">https://nyti.ms/37mxlw7&q...
Jan. 9, 1945: Americans Hack Both Sides of Belgian Bulge; Check Enemy Around Strasbourg and in Saar; Tokyo Reports Balking Lingayen Bay Landing https://nyti.ms/35A5KXa ">https://nyti.ms/35A5KXa&q...
Jan. 10, 1945: Americans Land 107 Miles From Manila, Seize Four Lingayen Gulf Beachheads; President’s Budget Asks 83 Billions https://nyti.ms/37Q1Qef ">https://nyti.ms/37Q1Qef&q...
Jan. 11, 1945: Americans Drive 10 Miles Inland on Luzon; Win 4 Towns and Airstrip; Resistance Light; Germans Retreat From Tip of Belgian Bulge https://nyti.ms/35GJ7jN ">https://nyti.ms/35GJ7jN&q...
Jan. 12, 1945: Americans Deepen and Widen Luzon Foothold; Meet Resistance; Planes Rake Manila Roads; Germans Falling Back 23 Miles in Belgium https://nyti.ms/2QHvHjq ">https://nyti.ms/2QHvHjq&q...
Jan. 13, 1945: 3D Fleet Planes Sink 25 Japanese Ships, Hit 13 More in Convoys Off Indo-China; German Bulge in Belgium is Collapsing https://nyti.ms/2QFgfUI ">https://nyti.ms/2QFgfUI&q...
Jan. 14, 1945: Russians Open Winter Offensive in Poland; Break Nazi Lines 25 Miles on 37-Mile Front; Americans Drive to Cut Off Fleeing Germans https://nyti.ms/384WpbB ">https://nyti.ms/384WpbB&q...
Jan. 15, 1945: Russians Cross Last River Before Cracow; Nazis Flee Belgian Bulge, Lose 232 Planes; Americans on Luzon Plain Beyond Agno River https://nyti.ms/2sgWRnK ">https://nyti.ms/2sgWRnK&q...
Jan. 16, 1945: Carrier Planes Bomb 3 Ports on China Coast; Indo-China Bag is 41 Ships Sunk, 28 Damaged; Russians in Kielce; U.S. Units at Hub of Salient https://nyti.ms/36K4aTR ">https://nyti.ms/36K4aTR&q...
Jan. 17, 1945: Russians Seize Stronghold Flanking Warsaw; British Strike at German Salient in Holland; U.S. Planes Blast 30 Ships in New China Blows https://nyti.ms/2QHMR01 ">https://nyti.ms/2QHMR01&q...
Jan. 18, 1945: Russians Take Warsaw, Reported in Cracow; Win a City 14 Miles From Reich in 24-Mile Gain; British Advance, Americans Close on St. Vith https://nyti.ms/2FzQLSm ">https://nyti.ms/2FzQLSm&q...
Jan. 19, 1945: Russians Reported at Frontier of Silesia; British and American Drives Gain in West; Churchill Warns Nazis to Surrender Now https://nyti.ms/35J4z7A ">https://nyti.ms/35J4z7A&q...
Jan. 20, 1945: Russians in Lodz and Cracow, Smash Nazi Line in New Advance of 28 Miles in East Prussia; Allies Gain in North, Check Foe Along Rhine https://nyti.ms/2si4Yk0 ">https://nyti.ms/2si4Yk0&q...
Jan. 21, 1945: Roosevelt Sworn in for Fourth Term; Extends Good Neighbor Policy to World; Russians Gain 25 Miles; French Open Drive https://nyti.ms/30O1bI0 ">https://nyti.ms/30O1bI0&q...
Jan. 22, 1945: Allies Now in Reich Proper in East and West; Russians Smash Into Silesia, Win Tannenberg; Germans Quitting Bulge, French Push Ahead https://nyti.ms/3aA6lMf ">https://nyti.ms/3aA6lMf&q...
Jan. 23, 1945: Russians Sweep On, Now 150 Miles From Berlin; Seize Insterburg, Allenstein in East Prussia; U.S. Fliers Hit 3,000 Vehicles on West Front https://nyti.ms/2sUIsOo ">https://nyti.ms/2sUIsOo&q...
Jan. 24, 1945: Russians Reach the Oder on 37-Mile Front, Flank Silesian Mines, Squeeze East Prussia; Americans Take St. Vith, Fall Back in South https://nyti.ms/38MwaqL ">https://nyti.ms/38MwaqL&q...
Jan. 25, 1945: Red Army Now is Four Miles From Breslau; Germans Jam Roads East From Rhineland; British Drive Into Siegfried Land in North https://nyti.ms/2RNyYwF ">https://nyti.ms/2RNyYwF&q...
Jan. 26, 1945: Russians 4 Miles From Posen, Nearing Baltic; Eight German Divisions Lash Out in Alsace; Americans Take Clark Field in Manila Drive https://nyti.ms/30TlzHw ">https://nyti.ms/30TlzHw&q...
Jan. 27, 1945: Russians Reach Baltic, Cut Off East Prussia; 8 Miles From Koenigsberg; Posen Outflanked; Allies Drive Germans Back Across the Roer https://nyti.ms/2TYJNi7 ">https://nyti.ms/2TYJNi7&q...
Jan. 28, 1945: Red Army Overruns Silesian War Arsenal; Surrounds Posen And Closes On Brandenburg; 3D Army Drives 4 Miles to German Border https://nyti.ms/3aOqcY6 ">https://nyti.ms/3aOqcY6&q...
Jan. 29, 1945: Russians Win All Silesia Plants, Take Memel and Advance To Point 109 Miles From Berlin; U.S. First Army Strikes Suddenly in Blizzard https://nyti.ms/3aUZ0qv ">https://nyti.ms/3aUZ0qv&q...
Jan. 30, 1945: Red Army Sweeps On 93 Miles From Berlin; Invades Pomerania, Closes on Koenigsberg; U.S. Third Army Smashes Back Into Germany https://nyti.ms/38RWpfa ">https://nyti.ms/38RWpfa&q...
Jan. 31, 1945: Soviet Push Unchecked 73 Miles From Berlin; 2 U.S. Drives Crack Siegfried Line Outworks; Americans Land North of Bataan Unopposed https://nyti.ms/37MnkJc ">https://nyti.ms/37MnkJc&q...
Feb. 1, 1945: Russians 63 Miles Off, Berlin Hears Guns; U.S. Troops Enter Germany at 3 More Points; Americans Win Subic Bay Navy Base on Luzon https://nyti.ms/3b0uRWV ">https://nyti.ms/3b0uRWV&q...
Feb. 2, 1945: Nazis Report Russians 39 Miles Off Berlin; Americans Find Westwall Fringe Weakened; Landing Flanks Manila; Luzon Captives Freed https://nyti.ms/2GMEPNN ">https://nyti.ms/2GMEPNN&q...
Feb. 3, 1945: Russians Near Oder in Stettin-Berlin Drive; U.S. Gains 3 Miles in Westwall; Colmar Taken; 3 Columns Press on Manila, One 18 Miles Off https://nyti.ms/2RU69zT ">https://nyti.ms/2RU69zT&q...
Feb. 4, 1945: Russians Close on Frankfort and Kuestrin; & #39;Forts& #39; Batter Berlin; First Army Pushes On; Two U.S. Columns Are 15 Miles From Manila https://nyti.ms/2SlaPhv ">https://nyti.ms/2SlaPhv&q...
Feb. 5, 1945: Americans In Manila, Seize Prison Camp; 1st Army Unit Cuts Through Westwall; Russians Flank Kuestrin, Fort On Oder https://nyti.ms/3bcMF1d ">https://nyti.ms/3bcMF1d&q...
Feb. 6, 1945: Manila Falls, 1,350 Freed From Second Prison; Russians Arrayed At Oder on 75-Mile Front; Patton Clears Westwall; Colmar Trap Set https://nyti.ms/2S1715T ">https://nyti.ms/2S1715T&q...
Feb. 7, 1945: Russians Battle Across Oder On 50-Mile Line; U.S. 1st Army Nears Biggest Roer River Dam; Americans Enter Bataan; Foe Fires Manila https://nyti.ms/2S7eiBe ">https://nyti.ms/2S7eiBe&q...
Feb. 8, 1945: Big 3 Set Final Steps To Crush Germany, Turn to Peace Issues In Black Sea Talk; U.S. 3D Army Invades Reich at 10 Points https://nyti.ms/31DQ3hc ">https://nyti.ms/31DQ3hc&q...
Feb. 9, 1945: Allies Widen Big Offensive In The West With Canadian-British Drive Near Cleve; Americans Gain; Russians Push On Stettin https://nyti.ms/37eiV0u ">https://nyti.ms/37eiV0u&q...
Feb. 10, 1945: Canadians Drive On, Now 4 Miles From Cleve; Roer& #39;s Biggest Dam Is Under American Fire; Russians Push Nine Miles Nearer To Stettin https://nyti.ms/37e8UR1 ">https://nyti.ms/37e8UR1&q...
Feb. 11, 1945: Main Roer Dam Won After Foe Looses Flood; Canadians Reach Rhine, Converge on Cleve; B-29& #39;s Hit Tokyo Area; Russians Gain In North https://nyti.ms/2SHn8VA ">https://nyti.ms/2SHn8VA&q...
Feb. 12, 1945: British Enter Cleve, Cut Foe& #39;s Lateral Road; Americans Smash Into Outskirts Of Pruem; Russians Almost Ring Breslau In Wide Swing https://nyti.ms/2SlYjiO ">https://nyti.ms/2SlYjiO&q...
Feb. 13, 1945: Big 3 Doom Nazism And Reich Militarism; Agree on Freed Lands And Oaks Voting; Convoke United Nations in U.S. April 25 https://nyti.ms/2w7v3DI ">https://nyti.ms/2w7v3DI&q...
Feb. 14, 1945: Budapest Is Taken At Cost Of 159,000 To Foe; British Clear Reichswald, Patton Pushes On; Cavite Won, End Of Manila Campaign & #39;In Sight& #39; https://nyti.ms/38u9ICN ">https://nyti.ms/38u9ICN&q...
Feb. 15, 1945: 8,000 Planes Batter Nazis Close To 2 Fronts; Dresden Hit Thrice As Russians Move On It; Breslau Reported Ringed; New Gains In West https://nyti.ms/2UVn7Qk ">https://nyti.ms/2UVn7Qk&q...
Feb. 16, 1945: 1,200 Planes Of U.S. Fleet Attack Tokyo As Ships And Fliers Bombard Iwo Isle; Russians Nearing Cottbus, We Bomb It https://nyti.ms/39IGoc5 ">https://nyti.ms/39IGoc5&q...
Feb. 17, 1945: Fleet Planes Renew Pounding Of Tokyo; Ships Hit Iwo Again; Bataan Recaptured; British Gain In West; Russians Press On https://nyti.ms/2SAAC6u ">https://nyti.ms/2SAAC6u&q...
Feb. 18, 1945: M& #39;Arthur& #39;s Troops Land On Corregidor; Iwo Shelled Again, Foe Reports Invasion; British Split Nazi Defenses Near Goch https://nyti.ms/2Hw6NOh ">https://nyti.ms/2Hw6NOh&q...
Feb. 19, 1945: U.S. Marines Storm Ashore On Iwo Island; 509 Planes, 36 Ships Smashed In Tokyo Blow; British At Edge of Goch; Patton Strikes Again https://nyti.ms/2HBYYGD ">https://nyti.ms/2HBYYGD&q...
Feb. 20, 1945: Marines Fight Way To Airfield On Iwo Isle; Win 2 1/2-Mile Beachhead; 800 Ships Aid Landing; 150 B-29& #39;s Pound Tokyo; Scots Drive Into Goch https://nyti.ms/2HFQ1ML ">https://nyti.ms/2HFQ1ML&q...
Feb. 21, 1945: Marines Conquer Airfield, Hold Third of Iwo; Roosevelt Gets New Churchill Vow on Japan; Patton Speeds Up Advance On 50-Mile Front https://nyti.ms/2PfduZ4 ">https://nyti.ms/2PfduZ4&q...
Feb. 22, 1945: 3D Army Surge Gains 5 1/2 Miles In Saar Area; Marines Halted On Iwo, New Division Lands; Americas Parley Opens, Argentine Issue Rises https://nyti.ms/37PASmz ">https://nyti.ms/37PASmz&q...
Feb. 23, 1945: Marines Take Suribachi, Chief Point On Iwo; 5 Air Forces Join To Cripple Reich Railways; U.S. 3D Army Clears Saar-Moselle Triangle https://nyti.ms/3a1fmgi ">https://nyti.ms/3a1fmgi&q...
Feb. 24, 1945: Eisenhower Opens Wide Roer Offensive, 1st And 9th Armies Drive Toward Rhine; Marines Gain Slowly In Center Of Iwo https://nyti.ms/2utXpYw ">https://nyti.ms/2utXpYw&q...
Feb. 25, 1945: Americans Drive Four Miles Beyond The Roer; Our Carrier Aircraft Slash At Tokyo Again; Marines Win Half Of Iwo& #39;s Central Airfield https://nyti.ms/390Acfk ">https://nyti.ms/390Acfk&q...
Feb. 26, 1945: Americans Win Dueren, Forge 25-Mile Front; Carrier Planes And 200 B-29& #39;s Pound Tokyo; Marines Seize Most Of Second Iwo Airfield https://nyti.ms/395sKj6 ">https://nyti.ms/395sKj6&q...
Feb. 27, 1945: Americans, 10 1/2 Miles Away, Shell Cologne; 4 Armies Striking For Rhine As Foe Weakens; U.S. Planes Use Iwo Field, Marines Push On https://nyti.ms/2TkwdUj ">https://nyti.ms/2TkwdUj&q...
Feb. 28, 1945: U.S. 9th Army Races North Toward Canadians, Enters Muenchen-Gladbach, Rips Foe& #39;s Line; B-29& #39;s Burn Out 240 Blocks In Heart Of Tokyo https://nyti.ms/2wdElOC ">https://nyti.ms/2wdElOC&q...
Mar. 1, 1945: U.S. Tanks Cross Erft 7 Miles From Cologne; Marines Step Up Iwo Drive; Manila Bay Open; Roosevelt Back, Speaks To Congress Today https://nyti.ms/32GptVd ">https://nyti.ms/32GptVd&q...
Mar. 2, 1945: 9th Captures Muenchen-Gladbach, 3D In Trier; M& #39;Arthur Invades Palawan; Iwo Drive Gains; Roosevelt Puts World Peace Up To Senate https://nyti.ms/2PESQSu ">https://nyti.ms/2PESQSu&q...
Mar. 3, 1945: 9th Army At The Rhine, Foe Flees In Rout; First Advances, British Drive Reported; Russians Closing Trap; New Gains On Iwo https://nyti.ms/39lQu2z ">https://nyti.ms/39lQu2z&q...
Mar. 4, 1945: Ninth Army And Canadians Join Near Rhine; Battered Nazis, Retreating, Blow Up Bridges; Navy Shells Island 450 Miles From Japan https://nyti.ms/2IgSGg6 ">https://nyti.ms/2IgSGg6&q...
Mar. 5, 1945: Americans At Rhine Near 2 Duisburg Bridges; 2 Miles From Cologne, They Nearly Ring City; Russians Reach Baltic, Cutting Off Danzig https://nyti.ms/2PJUp1B ">https://nyti.ms/2PJUp1B&q...
Mar. 6, 1945: 3 U.S. Columns Enter Cologne, One A Mile In; 1st Army Nears Bonn, 3D Heads For Coblenz; Russians Capture Two Outposts of Stettin https://nyti.ms/3cuIsGG ">https://nyti.ms/3cuIsGG&q...
Mar. 7, 1945: Shattered Cologne Falls To 1st Army; 3D Sweeps Within 20 Miles Of Coblenz; Soviet Gain Near Stettin Secures Flank https://nyti.ms/3cE9OKD ">https://nyti.ms/3cE9OKD&q...
Mar. 8, 1945: 3D Army Races To Rhine Near Coblenz; Overwhelms Germans In 50-Mile Plunge; 7 Soviet Armies Push On Berlin, Says Foe https://nyti.ms/38AO2Ec ">https://nyti.ms/38AO2Ec&q...
Mar. 9, 1945: 1st Army Across Rhine South Of Cologne; Bridgehead Is Firm; Most Of Bonn Seized; Foe Reports Fierce Battle West Of Oder https://nyti.ms/2IxGg3r ">https://nyti.ms/2IxGg3r&q...
Mar. 10, 1945: 1st And 3D Armies Trap 5 Nazi Divisions; Rhine Bridgehead Grows, Foe Repelled; 300 B-29& #39;s Fire 15 Square Miles Of Tokyo https://nyti.ms/2xjsX4e ">https://nyti.ms/2xjsX4e&q...
Mar. 11, 1945: Wesel Bridgehead Collapses, Enemy Cut Off; Americans Gain Mile On East Side Of Rhine; Center of Tokyo Devastated By Fire Bombs https://nyti.ms/2Q7Rzn9 ">https://nyti.ms/2Q7Rzn9&q...
Mar. 12, 1945: Seven Towns Captured In Rhine Bridgehead; B-29& #39;s Blast Nagoya In 2D Big Blow In 2 Days; Americans Land on Mindanao In Philippines https://nyti.ms/3cVGQ95 ">https://nyti.ms/3cVGQ95&q...
Mar. 13, 1945: 1st Army Opens Sharp Attack East Of Rhine; Raf Deals Dortmund Heaviest Blow Of War; Russians Capture Kuestrin On Berlin Road https://nyti.ms/2IKJ65e ">https://nyti.ms/2IKJ65e&q...
March 14, 1945: Americans 2 Miles From Ruhr Superhighway as They Expand Bridgehead Under Air Cover; New B-29 Blow Fires 4 Square Miles of Osaka https://nyti.ms/2Wbcrhe ">https://nyti.ms/2Wbcrhe&q...
March 15, 1945: 1st Army Fans Out in the Rhine Bridgehead; 7th Joins 3D in Smashing at Saar Salient; RAF Uses 11-Ton Bombs; Russians Cut Oder Line https://nyti.ms/39RsR29 ">https://nyti.ms/39RsR29&q...
March 16, 1945: 7th Army Surges 3 Miles in Saar Offensive; 3D Crosses Moselle, 1st Is at Superhighway; U.S. Bombers Blast Hitler& #39;s Headquarters https://nyti.ms/2WiEyLC ">https://nyti.ms/2WiEyLC&q...
March 17, 1945: Saar Battle Won; Germans in Flight to Rhine; Ruhr Superhighway Slashed at Two Points; 300 B-29& #39;s Set 12 Square Miles of Kobe Afire https://nyti.ms/2U6XB8E ">https://nyti.ms/2U6XB8E&q...
March 18, 1945: Coblenz Falls in Swift Assault by 3D Army; Patton and 7th Closing Trap on Nazis in Saar; 1st Tightens Grip on Approaches to the Ruhr https://nyti.ms/2QrooLV ">https://nyti.ms/2QrooLV&q...
March 19, 1945: 3D and 7th Armies Cut Deep into Saar Pocket; Remagen Bridge Falls, But Repair is Speeded; B-29& #39;s Join Carrier Planes to Attack Japan https://nyti.ms/2WsXl6I ">https://nyti.ms/2WsXl6I&q...
March 20, 1945: U.S. Tanks Closing Vast Traps Around Saar; Foe Flees East, Lashed By Shells and Bombs; Carrier Planes Blast Kobe and Kure Bases https://nyti.ms/2UqRBaX ">https://nyti.ms/2UqRBaX&q...
March 21, 1945: German Saar-Moselle Armies Smashed; Foe& #39;s Loss Tops 40,000; U.S. 3D and 7th Join; Carriers Blast Japanese Fleet in Lair https://nyti.ms/2QwvvTq ">https://nyti.ms/2QwvvTq&q...
March 22, 1945: Foe Surrenders by Thousands in Palatinate; Escape Gap Is 20 Miles; 3D in Ludwigshafen; 4,500 Allied Planes Rip Reich Oil, Airfields https://nyti.ms/2QBC0Ey ">https://nyti.ms/2QBC0Ey&q...
March 23, 1945: Germans Report a Big Push by Montgomery; Planes Blast Path; Saar Rearguard Hacked; Twin Soviet Drives Crush 45,000 in Silesia https://nyti.ms/39eJMKU ">https://nyti.ms/39eJMKU&q...
March 24, 1945: Patton Crosses Rhine in a Daring Drive Without Barrage, Expands Bridgehead; Nazis Say Russians Are Moving On Berlin https://nyti.ms/2wnkcpX ">https://nyti.ms/2wnkcpX&q...
March 25, 1945: Allies Storm Across Rhine at 4 Points, Join Chutists In Bridgehead 5 Miles Deep; Russians Drive 43 Miles in West Hungary https://nyti.ms/2xZUd8f ">https://nyti.ms/2xZUd8f&q...
March 26, 1945: 3D Army Crosses Main in 27-Mile Dash; 1st Hits Out; North Bridgehead Grows; Tokyo Reports U.S. Landing in Ryukyus https://nyti.ms/2WMvuPc ">https://nyti.ms/2WMvuPc&q...
March 27, 1945: 7 Armies Smash Nazis in Deep Thrusts; 1st Passes Limburg, 3D is in Frankfort; Red Army 31 Miles From Austrian Border https://nyti.ms/2UDB8k8 ">https://nyti.ms/2UDB8k8&q...
March 28, 1945: British Break Into North German Plain; U.S. 1st and 3D Sweep East on Wide Front; Reich Army Whipped, Says Eisenhower
March 29, 1945: 1st and 3D Armies Drive Toward Leipzig; British Tanks Approaching Muenster; Russians Cut Vienna Line, Win Gdynia https://nyti.ms/2QWcl9T ">https://nyti.ms/2QWcl9T&q...
March 30, 1945: 1st Army Races 55 Miles to Cut Off Ruhr; Russians Smash to Border of Austria; British Fleet Joins in Ryukyus Attack https://nyti.ms/39sjoO2 ">https://nyti.ms/39sjoO2&q...
March 31, 1945: 3,000 Allied Tanks Plunge Deep in Reich; Russians Take Danzig, Invade Austria; Fleet Pounds Ryukyus 8th Day in a Row https://nyti.ms/2WW1hND ">https://nyti.ms/2WW1hND&q...
April 1, 1945: Allies Sweep On In Reich as Rout Grows; Eisenhower Bids Isolated Nazis Yield; Russian Armies 33 Miles From Vienna https://nyti.ms/3aBK8g7 ">https://nyti.ms/3aBK8g7&q...
April 2, 1945: Americans Invade Okinawa in Ryukyus; Seize 2 Airfields; First Resistance Light; 9th and 1st Armies Join, Circling Ruhr https://nyti.ms/2JuzYlE ">https://nyti.ms/2JuzYlE&q...
April 3, 1945: British Sweep Menaces Foe in Holland; Patton& #39;s Tanks 155 Miles From Berlin; American Thrust Cuts Okinawa in Two https://nyti.ms/39J1pmq ">https://nyti.ms/39J1pmq&q...
April 4, 1945: British 25 Miles From the Zuider Zee; Enter Osnabrueck; U.S. 3D Wins Kassel; Russians Now Six Miles Outside Vienna https://nyti.ms/2x1Lna0 ">https://nyti.ms/2x1Lna0&q...
April 5, 1945: U.S. 3D Army Drives to Bisect the Reich; British Cross the Weser, Race for Ports; Russians Win Bratislava, Shell Vienna https://nyti.ms/2UHalVg ">https://nyti.ms/2UHalVg&q...
April 6, 1945: Soviet Voids Japanese Neutrality Pact; M& #39;Arthur Heads U.S. Army in Pacific; British Drive to 40 Miles From Bremen https://nyti.ms/34jf1Uj ">https://nyti.ms/34jf1Uj&q...
April 7, 1945: Allied Left Flank Rolls Ahead in Reich; Russians Tighten Vast Vienna Siege Arc; U.S. Fleet Downs 150 Planes Off Okinawa https://nyti.ms/2JJ2HDz ">https://nyti.ms/2JJ2HDz&q...
April 8, 1945: U.S. Fliers Sink Japan& #39;s Biggest Warship; British Near Bremen; Hanover Flanked; Patton Seizes Nazi Hoard of Gold and Art https://nyti.ms/2UU5nUY ">https://nyti.ms/2UU5nUY&q...
April 9, 1945: British Shaping New Trap, Shell Bremen; U.S. 9th Army& #39;s Tanks By-Pass Hanover; Red Army Drives Three Miles Into Vienna https://nyti.ms/2UTpSRK ">https://nyti.ms/2UTpSRK&q...
April 10, 1945: U.S. and British Armies Drive for Elbe; Canadians Cut Off 80,000 in Netherlands; Russians Capture the Heart of Vienna https://nyti.ms/2VkFyfU ">https://nyti.ms/2VkFyfU&q...
April 11, 1945: 5 Allied Armies Break Germans& #39; Center; One 114 Miles From Berlin; Hanover Won; Russians Closing Vienna Escape Route https://nyti.ms/3cbpqV2 ">https://nyti.ms/3cbpqV2&q...
April 12, 1945: U.S. Ninth at Elbe 63 Miles From Berlin; Battles in Brunswick; Essen Captured; Russians Said to Mass at Oder For Push https://nyti.ms/3caRtUn ">https://nyti.ms/3caRtUn&q...
April 13, 1945: President Roosevelt is Dead; Truman to Continue Policies; 9th Crosses Elbe, Nears Berlin https://nyti.ms/3ccFlSJ ">https://nyti.ms/3ccFlSJ&q...
April 14, 1945: Roosevelt Rites in White House Today; Truman Turns to Congress and Byrnes; 3D Cuts Berlin Link to South; Vienna Won https://nyti.ms/34EUdqv ">https://nyti.ms/34EUdqv&q...
April 15, 1945: Nation Pays Final Tribute to Roosevelt As World Mourns; Hyde Park Rites Today; Americans Close to Splitting of Reich https://nyti.ms/2RExs0G ">https://nyti.ms/2RExs0G&q...
April 16, 1945: Roosevelt is Buried With Solemn Rites; One Elbe Crossing Lost, Second Widened; Ruhr Sack Cut; Canadians at North Sea https://nyti.ms/2VgXcTf ">https://nyti.ms/2VgXcTf&q...
April 17, 1945: Truman Asks World Unity to Keep Peace; 7th in Nuremberg; Soviet Push Reported; Nazis Lose 905 Planes, Mostly Aground https://nyti.ms/2VEwqTp ">https://nyti.ms/2VEwqTp&q...
April 18, 1945: British Army 25 Miles From Hamburg; U.S. Thrust Toward Berlin is at a Halt; Nazis Report 4 Soviet Drives on Capital https://nyti.ms/3aiE5wd ">https://nyti.ms/3aiE5wd&q...
April 19, 1945: 3D Crosses Czech Border and Bisects Reich; Magdeburg Won; Canadians at Zuider Zee; Nazis Report Soviet Drive to Flank Berlin https://nyti.ms/2xGVpxE ">https://nyti.ms/2xGVpxE&q...
April 20, 1945: Soviet Push, in Full Swing, is Nearing Berlin; U.S. 1st Takes Leipzig, Ruhr Pocket Cleared; Americans Open Big Attack in South Okinawa https://nyti.ms/2VJI3J2 ">https://nyti.ms/2VJI3J2&q...
April 21, 1945: Nazis Report Russians 7 Miles From Berlin; Allies Drive in Bavaria; Nuremberg Falls; Hamburg is Shelled; 5th Gains in Italian Plain https://nyti.ms/2XV7Rom ">https://nyti.ms/2XV7Rom&q...
April 22, 1945: Russians Fighting 3 Miles Inside Berlin; Are Close to a Junction with Americans; Allied Drive in South Gains; Bologna Won https://nyti.ms/2yzqbbM ">https://nyti.ms/2yzqbbM&q...
April 23, 1945: Russians Win Sixth of Berlin, 16 Suburbs; French and U.S. Units Move on & #39;Redoubt& #39;; Molotoff, Eden and Stettinius Confer https://nyti.ms/3byR6my ">https://nyti.ms/3byR6my&q...
April 24, 1945: Russians Bore into Berlin, Swing North; Reach the Elbe Close to American Lines; U.S. 3D Breaks Loose in Thrust for Alps https://nyti.ms/2Y4oca6 ">https://nyti.ms/2Y4oca6&q...
April 25, 1945: Two Soviet Armies Join Inside Berlin; U.S. 3D Slashes Foe& #39;s Lines to Redoubt; 5th Crosses Po, Wins La Spezia in Italy https://nyti.ms/2VVcaxi ">https://nyti.ms/2VVcaxi&q...
April 26, 1945: Truman Opens World Security Parley; Russians Encircle Berlin, Cross Elbe; 3D Near Austria; Berchtesgaden Bombed https://nyti.ms/2S5Josn ">https://nyti.ms/2S5Josn&q...
April 27, 1945: Parley in Dispute Over Permanent Head; British Win Bremen, Patton Sweeps On; Russians Seize Stettin, Most of Berlin https://nyti.ms/2KzmyW2 ">https://nyti.ms/2KzmyW2&q...
April 28, 1945: U.S. and Red Armies Join, Split Germany; 3D Army in Austria; Russians in Potsdam; Parley Bars Lublin, Soviet Gets 3 Votes https://nyti.ms/2W4jZRk ">https://nyti.ms/2W4jZRk&q...
April 29, 1945: Allies Bar Peace Plea That Omits Russia; Surrender Report Untrue, Truman Says; Munich Revolts; Hitler Said to be Dying https://nyti.ms/2VMBjLH ">https://nyti.ms/2VMBjLH&q...
April 30, 1945: U.S. 7th in Munich, British Push on Baltic; Russians Tighten Ring on Berlin& #39;s Heart; Milan and Venice Won; Mussolini Killed https://nyti.ms/2zF02sx ">https://nyti.ms/2zF02sx&q...
May 1, 1945: Russians Fly Victory Flag on Reichstag; U.S. 7th Wins Munich, Drives for Brenner; Foe Broken in Italy; Tito Men in Trieste https://nyti.ms/2VRfhYc ">https://nyti.ms/2VRfhYc&q...
May 2, 1945: Hitler Dead in Chancellery, Nazis Say; Doenitz, Successor, Orders War to Go On; Berlin Almost Won; U.S. Armies Advance https://nyti.ms/2SvWHTr ">https://nyti.ms/2SvWHTr&q...
May 3, 1945: Berlin Falls to Russians, 70,000 Give Up; 1,000,000 Surrender in Italy and Austria; Denmark is Cut Off; Hamburg Gives Up https://nyti.ms/3ddONWq ">https://nyti.ms/3ddONWq&q...
May 4, 1945: Doenitz in Copenhagen, Peace Talk Seen; North Front Collapses, 150,000 Captured; Planes Rake Foe in Danish & #39;Dunkerque& #39; https://nyti.ms/2WsBMll ">https://nyti.ms/2WsBMll&q...
May 5, 1945: 500,000 More Surrender to Montgomery; Yield in Holland, Denmark, North Reich; U.S. and Soviet Units Hack Czech Pocket https://nyti.ms/35AHA00 ">https://nyti.ms/35AHA00&q...
May 6, 1945: Nazis in West Austria, Bavaria Give Up; End Seems Near in Norway; Czechs Rise; 16 Polish Leaders Seized, Russia Admits https://nyti.ms/2A6uJY3 ">https://nyti.ms/2A6uJY3&q...
May 7, 1945: Nazis Reported Ready for a Full Surrender; U.S. 3D Army Captures Pilsen in Czech Drive; Prague Patriots Say Help from Allies is Near https://nyti.ms/2L9ry4c ">https://nyti.ms/2L9ry4c&q...
May 8, 1945: The War in Europe is Ended! Surrender is Unconditional; V-E Will Be Proclaimed Today; Our Troops on Okinawa Gain https://nyti.ms/2YKjwXq ">https://nyti.ms/2YKjwXq&q...
May 9, 1945: Final Surrender Signed in Berlin Ruins; Soviet Joins in Proclaiming Triumph; Truman Warns Victory & #39;Is But Half Won& #39; https://nyti.ms/2SQwnmX ">https://nyti.ms/2SQwnmX&q...
May 10, 1945: Vinson Warns Nation of Bitter Pacific War; He Eases Some Curbs But Lists Shortages; Germans Yielding to Russians; Goering Taken https://nyti.ms/35L2byW ">https://nyti.ms/35L2byW&q...
May 11, 1945: Demobilization Plan Announced; Three Red Armies Still Fighting; Japan Gets Worst Air Pounding https://nyti.ms/3dwUFKP ">https://nyti.ms/3dwUFKP&q...
May 12, 1945: Men of Africa-Europe Campaign Freed From Further Fighting; Americans Advance on Okinawa https://nyti.ms/2YWQ1ll ">https://nyti.ms/2YWQ1ll&q...
May 13, 1945: Americans Enter Naha Suburbs; Russians in Mop-Up Take 700,000; U.S. Frees First 2,500 Veterans https://nyti.ms/3bs5Z9D ">https://nyti.ms/3bs5Z9D&q...
May 14, 1945: 500 & #39;Superforts& #39; Blast Nagoya; Chinese Fight Into Foochow Port; Churchill Bars New Tyrannies https://nyti.ms/3dJkHuh ">https://nyti.ms/3dJkHuh&q...
May 15, 1945: Americans Conquer Key Okinawa Hill, Gain Mile and a Half to Seize Airfield; U.S. and Britain Ask Tito to Quit Trieste https://nyti.ms/2WUEobQ ">https://nyti.ms/2WUEobQ&q...
May 16, 1945: U.S. Carrier Fliers Smash 284 Planes in 3-Day Strikes at Southern Japan; Another Key Hill is Won on Okinawa https://nyti.ms/2WDib3i ">https://nyti.ms/2WDib3i&q...
May 17, 1945: B-29& #39;s Again Rain Fire on Nagoya; Reich to Share Burden of Rule; War Crimes Board Meets May 31 https://nyti.ms/2TtXgh9 ">https://nyti.ms/2TtXgh9&q...
May 18, 1945: Marines Win Foothold in Naha; Infantry Gains in East Okinawa; Loss of 832 on U.S. Ship Revealed https://nyti.ms/3g0avzx ">https://nyti.ms/3g0avzx&q...
May 19, 1945: Okinawa Gains are Slowed as Resistance Intensifies; Big B-29 Force Hits Tokyo https://nyti.ms/2TlEQPs ">https://nyti.ms/2TlEQPs&q...
May 20, 1945: Okinawa Battle Unabated; Key Hill Won for 5th Time; Tito Warned by Alexander https://nyti.ms/2zdh2WY ">https://nyti.ms/2zdh2WY&q...
May 21, 1945: Three U.S. Columns Enveloping Shuri, Strong Point in South Okinawa Line; Allies Take Precautions on Trieste https://nyti.ms/2LL9DRk ">https://nyti.ms/2LL9DRk&q...
May 22, 1945: Marines at Naha Repel Foe, Some Clad in U.S. Uniforms; 1st Army Going to Pacific https://nyti.ms/2ZqTNn1 ">https://nyti.ms/2ZqTNn1&q...
May 23, 1945: Americans Enter Smashed Yonabaru in Surge on East Coast of Okinawa; Workers Past 30 Exempted in Draft https://nyti.ms/3edRND0 ">https://nyti.ms/3edRND0&q...
May 24, 1945: 550 B-29& #39;s Set Tokyo Fires; Marines in Corner of Naha; German Government Ended https://nyti.ms/2LVoTLD ">https://nyti.ms/2LVoTLD&q...
May 25, 1945: Big 3 Meeting Definitely Projected; U.S. Opposes British Desire for Delay; Himmler, Caught, Ends Life by Poison https://nyti.ms/2TF9YcW ">https://nyti.ms/2TF9YcW&q...
May 26, 1945: Japanese Lose 111 Planes in Attack Off Okinawa But Hit 11 Light Ships; 500 & #39;Superforts& #39; Fire Tokyo& #39;s Heart https://nyti.ms/2A9d5CS ">https://nyti.ms/2A9d5CS&q...
May 27, 1945: Tokyo Laid Waste by B-29& #39;s, Royal Palaces Devastated; Fighters Smash at Kyushu https://nyti.ms/3epKNTE ">https://nyti.ms/3epKNTE&q...
May 28, 1945: Ships Bombard Okinawa Foe, Who Gives Signs of Retreat; Chinese Cut Line to Malaya https://nyti.ms/2M8ByLw ">https://nyti.ms/2M8ByLw&q...
May 29, 1945: Marines Occupy Two-Thirds of Naha; Foe Hits 13 U.S. Ships, Loses 77 Planes; & #39;Superforts& #39; Drop Fire on Yokohama https://nyti.ms/36IQZDi ">https://nyti.ms/36IQZDi&q...
May 30, 1945: Marines Smash Into Shuri, Win All North Part of Naha; Tokyo Erased, Says Lemay https://nyti.ms/2zK22QN ">https://nyti.ms/2zK22QN&q...
May 31, 1945: Group to Rule Reich Called; Fighting Spreads in Syria; U.S. Flag is Hoisted in Shuri https://nyti.ms/2Bb1IuD ">https://nyti.ms/2Bb1IuD&q...
June 1, 1945: British Demand Syria Strife End; French Are Reported Complying; B-29& #39;s Hit Osaka; Shuri Line Bent https://nyti.ms/3cgGtoc ">https://nyti.ms/3cgGtoc&q...
June 2, 1945: U.S. to Double Army in Pacific; New Syrian Clashes, Russia Acts; Okinawa Drive Smashes Ahead https://nyti.ms/2AvGW8U ">https://nyti.ms/2AvGW8U&q...
June 3, 1945: De Gaulle Blames the British, Asks Parley on Pan-Arab Issues; Halsey Returns to Pacific Fight https://nyti.ms/2XZUa5R ">https://nyti.ms/2XZUa5R&q...
June 4, 1945: Swift Okinawa Thrust Gains 2 Miles and Cuts Off East Coast Peninsula; Levant States to Defy French Force https://nyti.ms/308H7BS ">https://nyti.ms/308H7BS&q...
June 5, 1945: Marines Win Half of Naha Field; Okinawa& #39;s South Coast Reached; B-29& #39;s Drop Fire Bombs on Kobe https://nyti.ms/2UdxXzU ">https://nyti.ms/2UdxXzU&q...
June 6, 1945: 4 Allies Take Control of Reich, Impose & #39;37 Borders, Stern Terms; Churchill Denies Inciting Syria https://nyti.ms/378W1sZ ">https://nyti.ms/378W1sZ&q...
June 7, 1945: All of Naha Airfield Now Ours; Foe Driven to Last High Ground; Soviet to Occupy Half of Reich https://nyti.ms/2MAd7Xh ">https://nyti.ms/2MAd7Xh&q...
June 8, 1945: Veto Row is Ended as Russia Yields, Permitting Discussion of Disputes; Big Three to Meet Within 40 Days https://nyti.ms/3cDfcfS ">https://nyti.ms/3cDfcfS&q...
June 9, 1945: B-29& #39;s Batter Plane Plants at Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe; Trap Tightens on Okinawa https://nyti.ms/3dN4sN7 ">https://nyti.ms/3dN4sN7&q...
June 10, 1945: Bitter Resistance on Okinawa Slows American Advance https://nyti.ms/3hdKZHM ">https://nyti.ms/3hdKZHM&q...
June 11,1945: Americans on Okinawa Open Big Push to End Campaign; Begin Scaling Last Barrier https://nyti.ms/3cTj3Fu ">https://nyti.ms/3cTj3Fu&q...
June 12, 1945: Okinawa Surrender is Demanded as Americans Top Final Ridge; Invasion of West Borneo Gains https://nyti.ms/2B0SVvq ">https://nyti.ms/2B0SVvq&q...
June 13, 1945: Last Okinawa Line Cracked; Americans Drive Fiercely As Foe Defies Plea to Yield https://nyti.ms/3cZfZrN ">https://nyti.ms/3cZfZrN&q...
June 14, 1945: Big 3 Meeting is Arranged; Truman Discloses One Aim is to Prepare Peace Parley https://nyti.ms/37t9PyH ">https://nyti.ms/37t9PyH&q...
June 15, 1945: Peak of Okinawa Ridge Won; Scores of Foe Surrender; 520 B-29& #39;s Smash at Osaka https://nyti.ms/2AuYvX4 ">https://nyti.ms/2AuYvX4&q...
June 16, 1945: Big Three Will Meet in Berlin Area; Ribbentrop is Captured in Hamburg; Japanese Pressed Back on Okinawa https://nyti.ms/2N3ugJe ">https://nyti.ms/2N3ugJe&q...
June 17, 1945: Americans Seize Last 3 Key Hills of Foe on Okinawa https://nyti.ms/37KaAUs ">https://nyti.ms/37KaAUs&q...
June 18, 1945: 6th Marines Surge Near Okinawa& #39;s Tip on Return to Line https://nyti.ms/37DJpdI ">https://nyti.ms/37DJpdI&q...
June 19, 1945: Buckner, Okinawa Commander, Killed By Shell as His Men Smash Foe& #39;s Line; Japanese Fleeing Southward in Open https://nyti.ms/30Z4JZN ">https://nyti.ms/30Z4JZN&q...
June 20, 1945: Welcome to Eisenhower is City& #39;s Greatest; He Calls for Strong U.S. to Maintain Peace; Marines Slash to Okinawa Tip, Splitting Foe https://nyti.ms/2YT8rSf ">https://nyti.ms/2YT8rSf&q...
June 21, 1945: U.S. Okinawa Guns Hold Fire As Americans Dig Out Foe in Last Three Tiny Pockets https://nyti.ms/2CtMiT1 ">https://nyti.ms/2CtMiT1&q...
June 22, 1945: Okinawa is Ours After 82 Days; 45,029 U. S. Casualties, Foe& #39;s 94,401; Gen. Stilwell Heads 10th Army https://nyti.ms/3199KiD ">https://nyti.ms/3199KiD&q...
June 23, 1945: Marshall Sets All-out Pacific Blow; Americans Take Luzon Escape Port; New Polish Regime Formed in Moscow https://nyti.ms/37UvJv3 ">https://nyti.ms/37UvJv3&q...
June 24, 1945: 59 Enemy Planes Downed in Attack on Okinawa Ships https://nyti.ms/2Z611LC ">https://nyti.ms/2Z611LC&q...
June 25, 1945: Japanese Blasted By 1,000-Ton Blows on Vast Air Front https://nyti.ms/382IOCs ">https://nyti.ms/382IOCs&q...
June 26, 1945: & #39;Superforts& #39; Bomb 10 War Factories in Blow at Japan https://nyti.ms/2A6nT5b ">https://nyti.ms/2A6nT5b&q...
June 27, 1945: Truman Closes United Nations Conference With Plea to Translate Charter into Deeds; B-29& #39;s Keep Up Assault on Honshu Plants https://nyti.ms/2CMpuy2 ">https://nyti.ms/2CMpuy2&q...
June 28, 1945: All Luzon Freed as Two Forces Join; Our Ships Hit Convoy in Okhotsk Sea; Loss of 392 on U.S. Carrier Revealed https://nyti.ms/2B8DNN1 ">https://nyti.ms/2B8DNN1&q...
June 29, 1945: 500 Superfortresses Fire Four Keys Japanese Cities; Sasebo Navy Base a Target https://nyti.ms/2YF4sK2 ">https://nyti.ms/2YF4sK2&q...
June 30, 1945: Americans Invade Kume, 345 Miles From China Coast https://nyti.ms/3eNsVm2 ">https://nyti.ms/3eNsVm2&q...
July 1, 1945: Troops of Allies Will Retire Today from Soviet Zone https://nyti.ms/3eKGRxc ">https://nyti.ms/3eKGRxc&q...
July 2, 1945: Australians Ashore at Balik Papan, Drive Inland Near Borneo Oil Port; Record B-29 Fleet Smashes at Japan https://nyti.ms/2BznsAS ">https://nyti.ms/2BznsAS&q...
July 3, 1945: Truman Presents Charter to Senate for Ratification as World& #39;s Hope for Peace https://nyti.ms/3inoErX ">https://nyti.ms/3inoErX&q...
July 4, 1945: B-29& #39;s Sear Japan in a 4-Way Strike on Fourth of July https://nyti.ms/3dWm9Jp ">https://nyti.ms/3dWm9Jp&q...
July 5, 1945: U.S. Fliers Smash Japanese Convoy, Bag 2 Destroyers https://nyti.ms/2D6w4PT ">https://nyti.ms/2D6w4PT&q...
July 6, 1945: M& #39;Arthur Planes Shift to Okinawa to Attack Japan https://nyti.ms/2NWp4aJ ">https://nyti.ms/2NWp4aJ&q...
July 7, 1945: Navy Lets Japanese Vessel Take 974 Ill Off Wake Isle; Parties from U.S. Destroyer Board Enemy Hospital Craft -- Most of Patients Are Found Half-Starved https://nyti.ms/3gBiNgU ">https://nyti.ms/3gBiNgU&q...
July 8, 1945: Allies at Impasse with Soviet Army Over Berlin Food; Air Blows Wreck 9 Japanese Ships in Enemy Waters https://nyti.ms/3gPNXBp ">https://nyti.ms/3gPNXBp&q...
July 9, 1945: 10 on Way Home Die in Crash of First B-29 to Bomb Tokyo: Dauntless Dotty, Veteran of 53 Missions, Falls at Kwajalein -- One Victim Was Last Survivor of Three Brothers in Service https://nyti.ms/2ZRmN6a ">https://nyti.ms/2ZRmN6a&q...
July 10, 1945: Carrier Planes Swoop on Tokyo Area; B-29& #39;s Also Score, Some Go 3,960 Miles; Truman At Sea on Way to Big 3 Parley https://nyti.ms/2BOHtUx ">https://nyti.ms/2BOHtUx&q...
July 11, 1945: 154 Enemy Planes Smashed in Carrier Blow at Tokyo; No U.S Warship is Attacked https://nyti.ms/2CufvNq ">https://nyti.ms/2CufvNq&q...
July 12, 1945: Air Blow at Japan Shifts to Kyushu; Tokyo Is Worried https://nyti.ms/32bicyA ">https://nyti.ms/32bicyA&q...
July 13, 1945: B-29& #39;s Strike First Blows at 4 More Japanese Cities; Big 3 Meeting Due Monday https://nyti.ms/3fnuvvq ">https://nyti.ms/3fnuvvq&q...
July 14,1945: Halsey Fleet Shells Japan Homeland; Planes Bomb Hokkaido and Honshu; 21 U.S. Warships Damaged in Typhoon https://nyti.ms/38VwDbb ">https://nyti.ms/38VwDbb&q...
July 15,1945: Huge Battleships Rake Hokkaido as Ship-Plane Assault Smashes Northern Japan for Second Day https://nyti.ms/38VwDbb ">https://nyti.ms/38VwDbb&q...
July 16, 1945: Truman and Churchill in Berlin for Start of Big 3 Talks Today; U.S. Fleet Scorches Foe& #39;s Cities https://nyti.ms/30fnNRQ ">https://nyti.ms/30fnNRQ&q...
July 17, 1945: Fleet Planes Swarm on Tokyo; British Join Blow; B-29& #39;s Strike; Big 3 Parley Is Delayed a Day https://nyti.ms/2ZDQRDy ">https://nyti.ms/2ZDQRDy&q...
July 18, 1945: Truman Is Selected to Preside as Big Three Conference Opens; Fleet Still Hammers on Honshu https://nyti.ms/2COgt7o ">https://nyti.ms/2COgt7o&q...
July 19, 1945: Carrier Planes Lash Remnants of Foe& #39;s Navy as Our Warships Shell Tokyo Bay Entrance; Big Three Again Confer, Japan Seen as Topic https://nyti.ms/39eYt2u ">https://nyti.ms/39eYt2u&q...
July 20, 1945: Record B-29 Assault on Japan Hits Fishing Port, 4 Other Cities; Third Fleet& #39;s Movements Veiled https://nyti.ms/3fRCoJS ">https://nyti.ms/3fRCoJS&q...
July 21, 1945: Truman Says We Want No Territory, Ask Only Peace and World Prosperity With & #39;Mankind& #39;s Greatest Age& #39; as Goal https://nyti.ms/2OJ00UT ">https://nyti.ms/2OJ00UT&q...
July 22, 1945: Big Three Achieve Marked Progress Toward Accord on Peace in Europe, U.S. Delegation at Potsdam Reports https://nyti.ms/39gndY4 ">https://nyti.ms/39gndY4&q...
July 23, 1945: Destroyers Smash Convoy Off Tokyo; Japanese Battleship Hit By Fliers; & #39;Superforts& #39; Bomb Honshu Oil Works https://nyti.ms/32Lztyp ">https://nyti.ms/32Lztyp&q...
July 24, 1945: Big 3 Accord on Japan Reported; Stalin Said to Yield to Truman; U.S. Planes Hit Kure, Navy Base https://nyti.ms/30FMgQw ">https://nyti.ms/30FMgQw&q...
July 25, 1945: Kure Bombing Hits 2 Battleships, Three Cruisers and 2 Carriers; Attack Goes On, Honshu Shelled https://nyti.ms/3jDRapJ ">https://nyti.ms/3jDRapJ&q...
July 26, 1945: Stalin Talks with Mountbatten as Chief in Far East Meets Big 3; 20 Japanese Warships Damaged https://nyti.ms/30MXbYx ">https://nyti.ms/30MXbYx&q...
July 27, 1945: Churchill Is Defeated in Labor Landslide; Attlee Promises Prosecution of Pacific War; Allies Order Japan to Quit or Be Destroyed https://nyti.ms/2P0nll2 ">https://nyti.ms/2P0nll2&q...
July 28, 1945: Fleet Strikes as Tokyo & #39;Ignores& #39; Terms; B-29 Chief Names 11 Cities to be Wiped Out; Attlee Picks Bevin as Foreign Minister https://nyti.ms/335Z6Kv ">https://nyti.ms/335Z6Kv&q...
July 29, 1945: Senate Ratifies Charter of United Nations 89 to 2; Truman Hails Aid to Peace https://nyti.ms/3g9xRm9 ">https://nyti.ms/3g9xRm9&q...
July 30, 1945: Fleet Planes Pound Tokyo Area; Battleships Shell Hamamatsu; Big 3 Close to Accord on Reich https://nyti.ms/3f7PHoc ">https://nyti.ms/3f7PHoc&q...
July 31, 1945: U.S. Destroyers Shell Japanese City; Navy Planes Hit 60 Honshu Airfields; Stalin Slightly Ill, Parley Slowed https://nyti.ms/2XdRxhe ">https://nyti.ms/2XdRxhe&q...
Aug. 1, 1945: Nagoya Area Heavily Bombed Again; Fleet Planes Also Hit a Naval Base; Big 3 Reconvene, May End Task Today https://nyti.ms/3jXEQ3M ">https://nyti.ms/3jXEQ3M&q...
Aug. 2, 1945: 820 B-29& #39;s Drop 6,632 Tons on Foe; Battleship, Planes Strike Wake; Big 3 End Talks, Communique Due https://nyti.ms/3hZ89kz ">https://nyti.ms/3hZ89kz&q...
Aug. 3, 1945: Germany Stripped of Industry by Big 3; 5 Powers to Plan Peace; Franco Barred; Bombers Fire Great Nagasaki Shipyards https://nyti.ms/31bJhPX ">https://nyti.ms/31bJhPX&q...
Aug. 4, 1945: B-29 Mines Seal Off Japan, Closing All Main Harbors; Korean Coast Also Barred https://nyti.ms/31aIYEQ ">https://nyti.ms/31aIYEQ&q...
Aug. 5, 1945; M& #39;Arthur Assumes Ryukyus Command to Prepare & #39;Final Conquest of Japan& #39;; 12 More Cities Are Warned by B-29& #39;s https://nyti.ms/33vcFUe ">https://nyti.ms/33vcFUe&q...
Aug. 6, 1945: Vandenberg Urges We Do All Policing in This Hemisphere; 50,000 Civilians Liquidated By Japanese, Chinese Aver https://nyti.ms/3kqacR1 ">https://nyti.ms/3kqacR1&q...
Aug. 7, 1945: First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan; Missile Is Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT; Truman Warns Foe of a & #39;Rain of Ruin& #39; https://nyti.ms/3ibCIng ">https://nyti.ms/3ibCIng&q...
Aug. 8, 1945: Atomic Bomb Wiped Out 60% of Hiroshima; Shock Awed Fliers; Tokyo Cabinet Meets; Carrier Planes Strike Near China Coast https://nyti.ms/3inggrC ">https://nyti.ms/3inggrC&q...
Aug. 9, 1945: Soviet Declares War on Japan; Attacks Manchuria, Tokyo Says; Atom Bomb Loosed on Nagasaki https://nyti.ms/2DKiS3N ">https://nyti.ms/2DKiS3N&q...
Aug. 10 1945: Truman Warns Japan: Quit or Be Destroyed; Says We Will Hold Military Bases We Need; Soviet Pincers Drive 14 Miles into Manchuria https://nyti.ms/2XLnrlf ">https://nyti.ms/2XLnrlf&q...
Aug. 11, 1945: Japan Offers to Surrender; U.S. May Let Emperor Remain; Master Reconversion Plan Set https://nyti.ms/30N0Ab0 ">https://nyti.ms/30N0Ab0&q...
Aug. 12, 1945: Allies to Let Hirohito Remain Subject to Occupation Chief; M& #39;Arthur Is Slated for Post https://nyti.ms/2XQ69U3 ">https://nyti.ms/2XQ69U3&q...
Aug. 13, 1945: Allies to Loose Mighty Blows on Japan if Surrender Is Not Made by Noon Today; Carrier Planes Renew Tokyo Attacks https://nyti.ms/3kFgOuP ">https://nyti.ms/3kFgOuP&q...
Aug. 14, 1945: Japan Decides to Surrender, The Tokyo Radio Announces As We Resume Heavy Attacks https://nyti.ms/31Vt5m8 ">https://nyti.ms/31Vt5m8&q...
Aug. 15, 1945: Japan Surrenders, End of War! Emperor Accepts Allied Rule; M& #39;Arthur Supreme Commander; Our Manpower Curbs Voided https://nyti.ms/2Y34V8k ">https://nyti.ms/2Y34V8k&q...
Aug. 16, 1945: M& #39;Arthur Calls Foe& #39;s Envoys; Cabinet Quits; Our 3 Armed Services Plan Demobilization; & #39;Gas,& #39; Oil Rationing Ends, Business Bans Eased https://nyti.ms/3iYzfJp ">https://nyti.ms/3iYzfJp&q...
Aug. 17, 1945: Truman Eases Wage Curbs; Plans Our Peacetime Army; Restrictions on Travel Cut; M& #39;Arthur Sanctions Delay by Envoys As Tokyo Asks 2-12 Days to Cease Fire; Russians Insist Foe Give Up by Monday https://nyti.ms/3kQJ1Pp ">https://nyti.ms/3kQJ1Pp&q...
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