Wednesday, April 4, 1945. The Third Army liberates the Ohrdruf Subcamp.

66th Infantry Division Soldiers Leading Refugees from Lorient, France, Apr 4, 1945.

The East Pomeranian Offensive ended in a Red Army victory

The Battle of Kassel ended in an American victory. The 4th Armored Division and the 89th Infantry of the Third US Army liberated the Ohrdruf Subcamp, a part of the Buchenwald system.  It was the first death camp facility to be liberated by the Western Allies and their first exposure to the full horror of the Holocaust.

The Battle of Buchhof and Stein am Kocher began between German and American forces for territory between the Neckar and Kocher Rivers.

British and Canadian units took Osnabruck.

Nazi gold reserves were captured in the salt mines at Merkers.

4 April 1945

The 10th Army began to meet resistance on Okinawa.

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Tuesday, April 3, 1945. The Germans began the evacuation of Buchenwald.

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Friday, December 11, 1942. Large and small boats.

Today in World War II History—December 11, 1942: “Cockleshell Heroes” Raid: British commandos who had landed in France from a submarine on Dec. 7 and canoed up the Gironde River, damage six ships in Bordeaux.

From Sarah Sundin's blog.

The Italian navy sank two Allied cargo ships, and damaged three others, in a manned torpedo raid on Algiers.

All in all, the Italian raid was more successful than the Royal Marine one on the same day.

The Battle of El Agheila commenced, which saw the British launch an operation to outflank the retreating Afrika Korps, which was both invading and withdrawing into Tunisia.  

The town of El Agheila, Libya, had been the site of an Italian concentration camp earlier in the war which had confined 10,000 Bedouin in poor conditions.

Bedouins confined at El Agheila.