WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MARCH 1945
Find out what all happened January to March 1945

Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. (16. January 1945)

World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway. (9. February 1945)

World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. (21. March 1945)

World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power. (19. March 1945)

World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces. (26. March 1945)

World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany. (25. February 1945)

World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,500 people. (30. January 1945)

World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive. (14. February 1945)

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2. (11. March 1945)

World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. (5. February 1945)

World War II: Audie Murphy in action that will later win him the Medal of Honor. (26. January 1945)

World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan. (3. January 1945)

World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. (16. February 1945)

World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans. (14. February 1945)

World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan. (3. February 1945)

Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree. (24. February 1945)

World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed. (31. January 1945)

World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority (4. February 1945)

World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army. (29. March 1945)

World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. (9. February 1945)