"Tankmen of the 781st Tank Battalion, supporting the 100th Infantry Division, relax while awaiting the construction of a new bridge across the Neckar River in Heilbronn, Germany. The former pontoon bridge put in by the engineers was knocked out by effective and accurate artillery fire. 9 April, 1945. 781st Tank Battalion, 100th Infantry Division."
Photographer: T/4 Irving Leibowitz, 163rd Signal Photo Co.
The Battle of Königsberg ended in a Red Army victory.
The Japanese invaded west Hunan.
The Battle of Bologna began in Italy.
The Australian Z Special Force began Operation Opossum with the goal of rescuing the Sultan of Ternate from Ternate Island in Indonesia.
The RAF sank the Admiral Scheer, the U-804, U-843 and the U-1065.
B-17 production stopped in Seattle.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, age 39, German Lutheran pastor; Wilhelm Canaris, age 58, German admiral; Ludwig Gehre, age 49, German officer; Hans Oster, age 57, German major general; Karl Sack, age 48, German jurist; and Theodor Strünck, age 50, German lawyer, and Johann Georg Elser, age 42, were executed by the German government.
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