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 | 1945-05-01 | 1945-08-01 | Borneo | 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. | Read about 'Borneo' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Borneo' |
| 1945-04-29 | Dachau Liberated | Troops from the 42nd and 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army liberate Dachau concentration camp. They discover approximately 32,000 prisoners, crammed 1,600 to each of 20 barracks, which had been designed to house 250 people each. | Read about 'Dachau Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Dachau Liberated' | |
| 1945-04-29 | 1945-05-07 | Operation 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. | Read about 'Operation Mana' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Mana' |
| 1945-04-25 | Elbe 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. | Read about 'Elbe Day' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Elbe Day' | |
| 1945-04-20 | Leipzig Captured | US troops of the 69th Infantry Division captures Leipzig. In July 1945 the U.S. turned the city over to the Red Army as it pulled back to occupation zone boundaries. | Read about 'Leipzig Captured' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Leipzig Captured' | |
| 1945-04-16 | Colditz Liberated | US Troops liberate the town of Colditz and the notorious prisoner of war camp Oflag IV-C. | Read about 'Colditz Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Colditz Liberated' | |
| 1945-04-12 | Roosevelt dies in office | President Roosevelt dies in office from a massive cerebral hemorrhage. | Read about 'Roosevelt dies in office' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Roosevelt dies in office' | |
| 1945-04-11 | Buchenwald Liberated | US troops liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. One of the first and largest concentration camp on German soil | Read about 'Buchenwald Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Buchenwald Liberated' | |
| 1945-04-07 | Yamato Sunk | Having been hit by multiple bombs and torpedoes, the Japanese Battleship Yamato rolls and then explodes. An estimated 3,055 of her 3,332 crew were lost, including Vice-Admiral Seiichi Ito. | Read about 'Yamato Sunk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Yamato Sunk' | |
| 1945-04-04 | Ohrdruf | Troops from the 4th Armored Division and the 89th Infantry Division liberate Ohrdruf concentration camp near Weimar in Germany. It was part of the Buchenwald concentration camp network and was the first camp liberated by US forces. | Read about 'Ohrdruf' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Ohrdruf' |
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