"Bitter end. Downcast German prisoners rounded up in the clean-up of bitterly-resisting Heilbronn, are marched to the rear. Key to Southern Germany, Heilbronn was stubbornly defended by these and other Nazis but finally fell before Seventh Army onslaught after nine days of severe fighting. 13 April, 1945. 100th Infantry Division, VI Corps. Photographer: T/4 Irving Leibowitz, 163rd Signal Photo Co."
The Red Army took Vienna and began the Samland Offensive.
Members of the SS and Luftwaffe German SS and Luftwaffe burned 1,016 slave laborers alive in a large barn at Gardelegen.
New Zealander troops captured Massa Lombarda, southwest of Lake Comacchio, Italy.
American forces land on Fort Drum,"the Concrete Battleship", in Manila Bay. They poured 5,000 gallons of oil fuel into the fortifications and set it on fire, whereupon it burned for five days.
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