3rd » World War II: As part of Bombing of Berlin in World War II March 1944 to April 1945 Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17 Flying Fortress B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehousing dehouses another 120,0
3rd » World War II: The United States and the Commonwealth of the Philippines Philippine Commonwealth begin Battle of Manila (1945) a month-long battle to retake Manila from Empire of Japan Japan.
4th » World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
4th » World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Winston Churchill Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea Soviet Union: 1922.E2.80.931991 Crimea.
4th » World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
5th » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
8th » World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
9th » World War II: Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945) The Battle of the Atlantic HMS Venturer P68 6 sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
9th » World War II: A force of Allies of World War II Allied aircraft Black Friday (1945) unsuccessfully attacked a Nazi Germany German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
13th » World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany named German and Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1946) or Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
13th » World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a Bombing of Dresden in World War II called massive aerial bombardment.
14th » World War II: On the first day of the Bombing of Dresden in World War II named bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
14th » World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslavs named Yugoslav Partisans (Yugoslavia) known as partisans.
14th » President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy CA-71 6, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
15th » World War II: Third day of Bombing of Dresden in World War II known as bombing in Dresden.
16th » World War II: American forces Battle of Corregidor (1945) or land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
19th » World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
21st » World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea CVE-95 6 and damage the USS Saratoga CV-3 6.
23rd » World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima known as photographed raising the American flag.
23rd » World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino people called Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños, Laguna or Los Baños internment camp.
23rd » World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
23rd » World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet Union known as Soviet and Polish forces.
23rd » World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II named annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
24th » Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament of Egypt called Parliament after reading a decree.
25th » World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.