West End Lake Shore Park, New Orleans, December 15, 1915.
December 15, 1915: Beginning of the Allied Evacuation of Gallipoli During World War I
Russian forces launched a major attack north of Lake Drisviati. It would fail.
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Monday, December 15, 2025
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Sunday, September 2, 1945. Japan signs the Instrument of Surrender.
This Day in History: V-J Day effectively ends World War II
The Australian Minister of Defence announced that the South-West Pacific Command had come to an end.
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed by Ho Chi Minh.
The British government ended wartime censorship.
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Saturday, September 1, 1945. Truman addresses the nation.
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Thursday, July 26, 1945. Churchill out, Attlee in.
The Potsdam Declaration was issued:
No. 1382
Proclamation1
Proclamation by the Heads of Governments, United States, China and the United Kingdom
(1) We, the President of the United States, the President of the National Government of the Republic of China and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, representing the hundreds of millions of our countrymen, have conferred and agree that Japan shall be given an opportunity to end this war.
(2) The prodigious land, sea and air forces of the United States, the British Empire and of China, many times reinforced by their armies and air fleets from the west are poised to strike the final blows upon Japan. This military power is sustained and inspired by the determination of all the Allied nations to prosecute the war against Japan until she ceases to resist.
(3) The result of the futile and senseless German resistance to the might of the aroused free peoples of the world stands forth in awful clarity as an example to the people of Japan. The might that now converges on Japan is immeasurably greater than that which, when applied to the resisting Nazis, necessarily laid waste to the lands, the industry and the method of life of the whole German people. The full application of our military power, backed by our resolve, will3 mean the inevitable and complete destruction of the Japanese armed forces and just as inevitably the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland.
(4) The time has come for Japan to decide whether she will continue to be controlled by those self-willed militaristic advisers whose unintelligent calculations have brought the Empire of Japan to the threshold of annihilation, or whether she will follow the path of reason.
(5) Following are our terms. We will not deviate from them. There are no alternatives. We shall brook no delay.
(6) There must be eliminated for all time the authority and influence of those who have deceived and misled the people of Japan into embarking on world conquest, for we insist that a new order of peace, security and justice will be impossible until irresponsible militarism is driven from the world.
(7) Until such a new order is established and until there is convincing proof that Japan’s war-making power is destroyed, points in Japanese territory to be designated by the Allies shall be occupied to secure the achievement of the basic objectives we are here setting forth.
(8) The terms of the Cairo Declaration4 shall be carried out and Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and such minor islands as we determine.
(9) The Japanese military forces, after being completely disarmed, shall be permitted to return to their homes with the opportunity to lead peaceful and productive lives.
(10) We do not intend that the Japanese shall be enslaved as a race or destroyed as [a] nation, but stern justice shall be meted out to all war criminals, including those who have visited cruelties upon our prisoners. The Japanese government shall remove all obstacles to the revival and strengthening of democratic tendencies among the Japanese people. Freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought, as well as respect for the fundamental human rights shall be established.
(11) Japan shall be permitted to maintain such industries as will sustain her economy and permit the exaction of just reparations in kind, but not those industries which would enable her to re-arm for war. To this end, access to, as distinguished from control of raw materials shall be permitted. Eventual Japanese participation in world trade relations shall be permitted.
(12) The occupying forces of the Allies shall be withdrawn from Japan as soon as these objectives have been accomplished and there has been established in accordance with the freely expressed will of the Japanese people a peacefully inclined and responsible government.
(13) We call upon the Government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all the Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.
Potsdam July 26, 1945
Harry S Truman
Winston Churchill
by H. S. T.
President of China
by wire
The results of the 1945 British election were announced. The Labour Party won an unexpected landslide over the Conservatives. Clement Attlee accordingly became the Prime Minister on this day.
The results were not a condemnation of Churchill, but an expression by the British people that they wished to go in a new direction, post war. One of Labour's slogans had been "Cheer Churchill – Vote Labour"
The British minesweeper Vestal was heavily damaged by a kamikaze attack.
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Wednesday, July 25, 1945. Truman orders the atomic bomb used on Japan.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Tuesday, July 17, 1945. The Potsdam Conference begins.
Churchill, who was actually on his way out due to having lost the recent British election, Truman, who was brand new to the Oval Office, and Stalin.
The Potsdam Conference between Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman commenced.
The immediate topic was the governance of postwar Germany.
The British participated in a carrier raid on Tokyo.
German Field Marshal Busch, the former commander of Army Group Center on the Eastern Front, died at the military hospital in Notts at age 60 due to a heart attack.
The King, Queen and Princess Elizabeth visited Ulster.
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Monday, July 16, 1945. Trinity.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Monday, May 7, 1945. Germany unconditionally surrenders.
German General Alfred Jodl and admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg signed unconditional surrender documents at 2:41 a.m. at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims. All Allied Powers are represented. Fighting was scheduled to end at 23:00 the following day. Military operations on the Western Front came to an immediate end.
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Leading Minister in the rump Flensburg Government, made a broadcast announcing the German surrender at 2:27 a.m..
The U-2336 sank two merchant ships in the Firth of Forth.
This Day in History: Last German U-boat in American waters
Riotous celebrations broke out in numerous places, including in Halifax, Nova Scotia, were they turned truly riotous.
American journalist Edward Kennedy broke an Allied embargo on news of the signing in the afternoon.
The NKVD and Polish anti Communist forces fought in the Battle of Kuryłówka with the Poles winning the battle, but fortunes would reverse the following day.
Spain severed relations with Nazi Germany. . . a bit late.
The British government in India published the report of an official commission of enquiry into the Bengal famine of 1943 finding that it could have been adverted through government action.
"These Army nurses, among the first to arrive on Okinawa, May 3, wash out of steel helmets.
They are, left to right, Lt. Margaret J. Whitton, Chicago Ill., who has seen 14 months service in Italy and Africa; Lt. Ruth Anderson, Rockford, Ill., Lt. Marjorie Dulain, Iron Mountain, Mich., and Lt. Eleanor Kennedy, Judington, Mich. 7 May, 1945.Photographer not credited.Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive."
Hard fighting continued on Okinawa.
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Sunday, May 6, 1945. Stopping advances.
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Friday, April 27, 1945. Mussolini captured by Partisans, Second Austrian Republic comes into being.
Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were captured by partisans while attempting to cross into Switzerland.
The Red Army took Potsdam, Prenzlau, Angemunde and Tempelhof airfield.
US troops liberated Kaufering concentration camp.
The Western Allies rejected Himmler's peace offer for the Germans to lay down their arms in the west and sent a reminder that the German surrender was to be unconditional.
One of the interesting things here is that its not entirely clearly that the Western Allies understood the offer the way it was made. Theoretically, it might have been possible to accept the offer as a largescale troop surrender which, while it would have ended fighting in the west, it would not have ended the war against Germany.
The U.S. Fifth Army reached Genoa, Italy, which was mostly already liberated by Italian partisans.
SS architect Hans Schleif committed suicide at age 43. Schleif had been involved in removing cultural material from Poland, but he oddly never really seemed to be fully on board with the worst elements of Nazism. His death was probably needless, but he probably would have served time after the war.
Former Austrian chancellor Karl Renner set up a provisional government composed of Social Democrats, Christian Socialists, and Communists and proclaimed the reestablishment of Austria as a democratic republic. This became the Second Austrian Republic, which remains today.
US and Philippine forces commenced the Battle of Davao. US forces took Baguio.
U.S. troops firing a pack howitzer in the Philippines, April 27, 1945.
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Sunday, November 20, 1915. Villa in retreat. . . again.
Putting up a post that was made, and then lost;
Villa was in retreat again:
From this point on, Villa would, in fact, always be in retreat.
Supreme Leader of the Senussi in North Africa Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi ordered his forces to cross the Egyptian frontier to execute a military coastal campaign against the Allies.
An outpost southeast of Sollum, Egypt was attacked
The Endurance broke up and sank. The Aurora drifted across the Antartic Circle as ice trapping her began to melt.
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Friday, November 19, 1915. Joe Hill executed.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Thursday, November 4, 1915. Villa withdraws.
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I don't think the withdrawal was puzzling anyone who knew what had happened at the battle.
The Third Battle of Artois concluded with the Allies having sustained major casualties and having failed to achieve their objectives.
The French pulled off at Karahojali and advanced toward Veles.
The British besieged a German position at Banjo, Kamerun.
The SM U-38 sank the French troopship SS Le Calvados off the coast of Algeria, killing 740 of the 800 on board..
A contingent of 129 Belizean men departed for the “great fight for civilization and freedom” and British military service aboard the HMT Verdala.
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Wednesday, November 3, 1915. Wilson considers ordering troops into Mexico.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Monday, October 11, 1915. Recognizing Carranza.
The US was rushing up on recognizing Carranza, who hated the US and who had sponsored guerilla action against it in Texas, as the de facto leader of Mexico.
Wilson was a terrible President.
The Red Sox took the third game of the world series.
Realizing that the battle had become a hopeless stalemate, area commanders began planning for an Allied withdrawal.
The second Neutral Socialist Conference was held in Copenhagen.
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Sunday,Labels: 1910s, 1915, Angolan Civil War, Australia, Australian aborigines, Australian Army, transgenderism, World War One October 10, 1915. Cooee.
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