Feb 06 The birth of Bob Marley, Jamaican singer.

Feb 23 US Marines raise the American flag after taking Mount Suribachi on the island Iwo Jima, during WWII.

Feb 10 "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1

Feb 11 First gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey CA

Feb 13 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die

Feb 08 Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald

Feb 09 Germany destroys Ruhrdammen

Feb 21 US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line

Feb 01 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie

Feb 19 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days

Feb 25 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo

Feb 22 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland

Feb 19 A U.S. invasion force of 30,000 marines land at Iwo Jima, starting a month-long WWII battle against Japanese troops.

Feb 03 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin

Feb 14 8th Air Force bombs Dresden

Feb 05 British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta

Feb 14 Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru join the United Nations.

Feb 21 Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties

Feb 13 Allied bombers began pounding Dresden, Germany, during WWII.

Feb 11 Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin

Feb 09 The birth of Mia Farrow, American film actress

Feb 21 British Army captures Goch

Feb 13 USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die

Feb 25 Sgt. Aubrey Cosens (Queen's Own Rifles of Canada) awarded the Victoria Cross at the Goch-Calear Road, Germany

Feb 22 Arab League forms (Cairo)

Feb 26 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force

Feb 05 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69.6 kph (440 yards/20.8 seconds)

Feb 24 Egypt & Syria declares war on Nazi-Germany

Feb 06 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder

Feb 24 U.S. troops liberate Manila from the Japanese during WWII.

Feb 02 Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp

Feb 16 American troops begin their reoccupation of the Philippine island of Corregidor during WWII.

Feb 06 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz

Feb 13 Soviet forces capture Budapest, saving 120,000 Jews.

Feb 23 Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr

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