Jan 19 Approximately 800 prisoners remaining in the Lodz Ghetto are liberated by Soviet troops, after 74,600 have been deported to Auschwitz.

Jan 12 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of the Bulge

Jan 27 Russia liberates Auschwitz &Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)

Jan 01 France is admitted to the United Nations.

Jan 03 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France

Jan 06 The Battle of the Bulge, in the Ardennes, starts

Jan 23 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation

Jan 03 John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in New York City NY

Jan 22 HMCS Trentonian (Corvette) torpedoed

Jan 02 Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion

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

Jan 13 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow

Jan 21 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma

Jan 03 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa

Jan 12 Russians open winter offensive with remarkable progress.

Jan 02 Allied air raid on Neurenberg

Jan 18 Approximately 800 prisoners remaining in the Lodz Ghetto are liberated by Soviet troops, after 74,600 have been deported to Auschwitz.

Jan 13 The Soviet 'Red' army occupies the Hungarian city of Budapest

Jan 01 France joins the UN

Jan 27 Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)

Jan 17 Liberation of Warsaw from the Nazi by Soviet troops

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

Jan 03 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa

Jan 17 Warsaw is liberated by Polish and Soviet forces during WWII.

Jan 09 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines

Jan 21 The Brazilian Expeditionary Force leads an allied attack on Monte Castelo in Italy, the only participation of South American troops in World War II.

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

Jan 04 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam

Jan 27 Russian troops liberate the Nazi concentration camps Birkenau and Auschwitz.

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

Jan 30 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die

Jan 27 Russia liberates Auschwitz &Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)

Jan 25 West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma

Jan 28 Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java

Jan 31 US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath

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