Table of Data Points

Tag : Combat

1945-05-011945-06-21Tarakan

First stage of the Borneo campaign with an amphibious landing by Australian troops. The operation's primary objective was to secure and develop the airstrip for use in subsequent operations.

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1945-05-011945-08-01Borneo

Australian I Corps troops under, under General Morshead, attacked Japanese troops holding the island. The campaign isolated a large number of Japanese troops, captured major oil supplies and freed many Allied prisoners.

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1945-04-301945-05-02Reichstag falls

German defenders, who have entrenched themselves in the burnt out rubble of the Reichstag, fight room to room to prevent the fall of the government building. It takes two days for Soviet troops to clear the building entirely.

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1945-04-291945-05-07Operation Mana

Royal and U.S. Air Force planes drop over 11,000 tons of food to un-liberated areas of the Netherlands to relieve starvation of civilians suffering from the Dutch Famine.

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1945-04-29Fornovo di Taro Liberated

The commune at Fornovo di Tar is liberated by Brazilian troops.

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1945-04-27Germany out of Finland

The last German troops withdraw from Finland ending the Lapland War.

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1945-04-26German Troops withdraw

The last German troops withdraw from Genoa. The German General Meinhold surrendered to the Committee of National Liberation (CLN).

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1945-04-25Elbe Day

Soviet troops from the 1st Ukrainian front meet reconnaissance troops from the US First Army on the east bank of the Elbe river near Torgau. An important milestone in the sequence of events leading to the destruction of the Third Reich.

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1945-04-25Turin Liberated

Days before the German forces surrendered in Italy and after a general insurrection, Turin is captured by Italian Partisan troops.

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1945-04-25Milan Liberated

As the US 1st armoured division advance up the Po valley, Milan is liberated by Italian resistance units rising in open revolt.

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