WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MARCH 1945
Find out what all happened February to March 1945

Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed. (16. March 1945)

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

World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces. (23. February 1945)

World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed. (19. March 1945)

World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga. (21. February 1945)

Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany. (4. March 1945)

The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture. (17. March 1945)

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

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

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 photographed raising the American flag. (23. February 1945)

World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden. (15. February 1945)

World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia. (15. March 1945)

World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. (13. February 1945)

World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine. (8. 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)

World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland. (3. March 1945)

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

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

The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. (10. March 1945)

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