The Red Army entered a Bucharest already cleared of German troops by the Romanian Army. Crowds cheered the arrival of the Red Army.
Romania would be one of the tragic examples of the Red Army not leaving where it appeared following the war. It would take a revolution in the USSR, more or less, and definitely in Romania, to restore Romanian sovereignty and establish Romanian democracy.
Bernard Law Montgomery was promoted to Field Marshal.
Almost slandered by American historians since the war, Montgomery was a great man and a strategic genius who had mastered the ability to fight with an economy of resources. Born in England, but raised in Australia (his father was an Episcopal Bishop), he was truly one of the greatest Allied commanders of the war.
The 5th Army crossed the Arno.
Slovene partisans rescued 105 Allied POWs in the Raid at Ožbalt.
The US prevailed in the Battle of Sansapor.
Task Force 38.4 attacked Japanese positions on Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima.
The first of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon incidents in Mattoon, Illinois.
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World has a good episode on this really weird event.
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