May 29 US first Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa

May 13 US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa

May 03 Rangoon taken by 26th Indian Division

May 05 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated

May 09 Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested

May 03 British troop join in Rangoon

May 01 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government

May 05 Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated

May 16 9th Division lands at Brunei

May 22 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa

May 02 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste

Jan 02 Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion

Jan 04 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack

Jan 25 Grand Rapids MI becomes first US city to fluoridate its water

Jan 28 Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands

Jan 03 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab

Jan 01 France joins the UN

Jan 02 Allied air raid on Neurenberg

Jan 03 Greek General Plastiras forms government

Jan 17 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary

Jan 20 FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as President

Jan 07 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen

Jan 17 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)

Jan 17 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation

Jan 06 George Bush, later to become U.S. vice-president and president, marries Barbara Pierce in Rye, New York.

Jan 16 US first & 3rd army meet at Houffalise

Jan 03 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab

Jan 05 Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam

Jan 31 Eddie Slovik, first American executed for desertion since Civil War

Jan 05 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"

Jan 24 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg

Jan 06 HMS WALPOLE, damaged off the Scheldt Estuary, Holland by German mine.

Jan 16 Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg

Jan 12 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea

Jan 27 Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested

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