British, French, and Indian forces made a third and final attempt to capture Achi Baba on the Gallipoli peninsula but were repulsed. Both side, sustained heavy casualties.
World War One was impacting Wyoming's economy:
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British, French, and Indian forces made a third and final attempt to capture Achi Baba on the Gallipoli peninsula but were repulsed. Both side, sustained heavy casualties.
World War One was impacting Wyoming's economy:
Troops under the command of Constitutionalist Álvaro Obregón fought those under Pancho Villa at León, Guanajuato in Mexico.
Obregón lost his right arm in a grenade attack but Villa was decisively defeated in the battle.
Austro Hungarian troops drove the Russians back to the Dniester.
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The ARVN held out against a superior NVA force at the Battle of Xuân Lộc.
South Korea executed eight people who were involved in the People's Revolutionary Party Incident, were hanged. Korea University had been closed the prior day.
The Indian Army invaded the Kingdom of Sikkim in response to a request by the prime minister. The king was placed under arrest.
The National Association of Broadcasters voted 12–3 to designate the first hour of weeknight network television as "Family Viewing Hour", starting with the 1975–76 season, following a requirement set by the FCC which was soon found to be unconstitutional.
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Hitler approved withdrawing German forces across the Rhine, but the order came too late to avoid 50% of those troops already being lost on the opposite bank.
U.S. and Filipino troops captured San Fernando on Luzon.
The Indian 20th Infantry Division took Wundwin, Burma.
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Hitler issued the Nero Decree, which stated:
I. Hitler’s Order of March 19, 1945
RE: Destruction Measures within Reich Territory
Our nation’s struggle for existence forces us to utilize all means, even within Reich territory, to weaken the fighting power of our enemy and to prevent further advances. Any opportunity to inflict lasting damage on the striking power of the enemy must be taken advantage of. It is a mistake to believe that undestroyed or only temporarily paralyzed traffic, communications, industrial, and supply installations will be useful to us again after the recapture of lost territories. During his retreat, the enemy will leave behind only scorched earth and will abandon all concern for the population.
I therefore command
1. All military traffic, communications, industrial and supply installations as well as objects within Reich territory that might be used by the enemy in the continuation of his fight, either now or later, are to be destroyed.
2. It is the responsibility of the military command posts to execute this order to destroy all military objects, including traffic and communications installations.
The Gauleiters and Commissioners for Reich Defense are responsible for destroying the industrial and supply installations, as well as of other objects of valuable; the troops must give the Gauleiters and Commissioners for Reich Defense the assistance they need to carry out this task.
3. This command is to be transmitted to all troop commanders as promptly as possible; orders to the contrary are null and void.
Adolf Hitler
Albert Speer and various officers of the Wehrmacht conspired against its implementation.
Ostensibly a war measure, at this point in the war Hitler was lashing out against the German people themselves, whom he was punishing for, in his mind, having failed him by losing the war, something he now clearly knew had occurred.
Also at this point, internal German attitudes were rapidly changing. While still fighting in the field, German troops were now surrendering in large numbers to the Western Allies, rather than die in the final weeks of the war. German commanders, including some in the SS, were seeking to make back deals with the Western Allies, unsuccessfully, and without Hitler's knowledge. Some were preparing for their own post war futures. Members of the German government and military were starting to conspire to save what they could.
Again, there's a lesson here. Hitler was a populist politician who had risen to power backed by lies. His policies inevitably lead Germany to shame and ruin. Rather than resign when things turned bad, he hung on, supported by fanatic supporters, and in the end sought to destroy the very country he claimed to represent.
All U-boats in the Baltic were transferred to the west.
The British Indian Army took Mandalay.
The USS Franklin was hit by kamikazes and badly damaged.
724 men were killed and 265 wounded. Captain Gehres regarded those who had jumped into the sea during the event as having acted improperly, leading to post incident tension and ultimately his relief. She'd return to service and was ultimately stricken in 1964.
The Soviet Union notified Turkey that their non aggression pact would not be renewed after it expired in November. It demanded territorial concessions from Turkey, which Turkey rejected.
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The Battle of Kiauneliškis ended in a Red Army victory with the destruction of the Lithuanian partisan bunkers.
The British Indian 62nd Bde took the last Japanese rail link to Mandalay.
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The postwar order and the war with Japan were the topics. It would be one of the most consequential conferences of the 20th Century.
Even in the photograph above it's easy to tell that Franklin Roosevelt was not well. The truth is, he was on death's door, and knew it. Those around him knew it too. At least one of those around him were far more friendly to a Communist world view than was known, except to the Soviets themselves.
Manila was being closed in on by the US Army from two directions.
The Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations began in Burma.
The USS Barbel was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Palawan.
The USAAF raids Iwo Jima for a second day with B-24s and B-29s.
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Battery B, 616th Field Artillery Battalion, 10th Mountain Division.
The Red Army closed to within fifty miles of Berlin.
The Battle for Kapelsche Veer ended in a victory for the Canadian Army.
The Waffen SS murdered over 160 Polish POWs at Podgaje. The Polish troops were members of the Communist Polish People's Army.
The Battle of Hill 170 ended in a victory for the British and Indian Armies.
The 11th Airborne was landed, by sea, near Nasugbu without opposition.
The execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik, about which there's been much handwringing, was carried out. He had been convicted of desertion and is the only US soldier to be executed for the same since the Civil War. Desertion was becoming a problem in the U.S. Army, contrary to the way we'd like to remember the war (draft dodging was as well), and he was made an example of.
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The last major German stronghold in the Ardennes, St. Vith, fell to the US 4th Army.
German lawyer and nobleman Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was executed for his membership in hte Kreisau Circle. He was 37.
The 20th Indian Division in Burma took Myinmu.
The US 14th Corps took Bamban in the Philippines.
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The Red Army commenced the Sandomierz–Silesian Offensive and the Vistula–Oder Offensive.
German troops were outnumbered at least 4 to 1 in all classes of equipment.
The British 18th Indian Division took bridgeheads over the Irrawaddy. Commandos were landed near Myebon on the mainland between Akyab and Ramree.
Aircraft of the U.S Navy sank 40 Japanese ships in Cam Ranh Bay and most of the ships in a convoy from Qui Nho'n, including the carrier Kashii.
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British forces prevailed in the Battle of Bure.
The Navy shelled Iwo Jima, Haha Jima and Chichi Jima. The USAAF also hit them with B-29s.
Suribachi Wan in the Kurils was bombarded by surface vessels.
Shwebo was taken by the British 2nd Division of British 33rd Corps (Stopford). Indian paratroopers were dropped south of Rangoon.
The opening mission of Operation Cornflakes, an attempt to distribute propoganda via the German mail system, opened with a mail train being bombed followed by an air drop of fake mail to German homes.
Ala Gertner, age 32, was executed at Auschwitz for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt of October, 1944.
Julies Leber, age 53, was also executed by the Germans for his role in being an opposition politician and German resistance member. An Alsatian who had originally chosen a career in the German Army, he was wounded in World War One and resigned from the army after the Kapp Putsch, which he opposed. He was a member of the July 20 plot and was anticipated to have a future role in the replacement German government.
The Soviet government recognized the Communist Provisional Government, which the UK and US did not.
Pepe Le Pew debuted in "Odor-able Kitty".
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Labels: 1940s, 1945, Army, Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, British Army, Burma, German Wehrmacht, Indian Army, Luzon, U.S. Air Force, World War Two
The 3d Army repulsed a German counterattack near Bastogne.
The US 8th and 3d and British 30 Corps mount attacks.
The British and Indian armies completed occupying Akyab.
Heavy air assaults occurred on Luzon against Japanese targets.
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The US commenced the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf with a naval bombardment that would last six days. The Japanese responded with kamikaze attacks.
British commandos and Indian Army troops made a nearly unopposed landing at the Burmese island of Akyab.
The Battle of Bure, a British attack in the Battle of the Bulge, commenced.
General Nikolaos Plastiras became Prime Minister of Greece.
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