"HoM2/C Charles R. Roth, USCG, leads hymn singing and gives brief talk to his shipmates aboard a Coast Guard-manner LST the day before landing on Iwo Jima. Photographed February 18, 1945."
Iwo Jima, February 18, 1945.
Operation Solstice ended in a German defeat.
American forces breached the Siegfried Line north of Echternach.
The USS Gamble was damaged beyond repair off of Iwo Jima.
General Ivan Chernyakhovsky, commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front, dies from wounds received outside Konigsberg at age 37.
General Dmitry Mikhaylovich Karbyshev was tortured to death along with other Soviet POWs by being doused with water and left out in a freezing night.
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