WHAT HAPPENED IN 1945.
Look what happened the 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: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans. (14. February 1945)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations. (14. February 1945)

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

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

World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima – about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima. (19. February 1945)

World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga. (21. 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: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp. (23. 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: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces. (23. February 1945)

World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers. (23. February 1945)

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

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

World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines. (3. March 1945)

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

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

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

World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops. (6. March 1945)

World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen. (7. March 1945)

   
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