WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1945
Find out what all happened February to September 1945

World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk. (9. April 1945)

The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. (26. July 1945)

World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people. (3. March 1945)

World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. (31. March 1945)

World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island. (21. June 1945)

World War II: The Flensburg Government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany. (23. May 1945)

Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. (21. August 1945)

World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers. (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: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. (21. March 1945)

World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. (30. July 1945)

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

First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber. (29. May 1945)

World War II: Canadian and British troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from German occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate. (5. May 1945)

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

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

Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces. (30. August 1945)

The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn Dynasty. (30. August 1945)

World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II. (29. April 1945)

The Yugoslav partisans free Trieste. (1. May 1945)

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