KCPT-OVER HERE- Timeline


1945 January 16 - Battle of the Bulge ends in German defeat February 4- 11- Yalta Conference Takes Place February 19 - Dawn Americans land on Iwo Jima April 1, Easter Sunday - 50,000 American troops land on Okinawa. April 12 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of stroke; Harry Truman becomes President; Allies liberate Belsen and Buchenwald concentration camps April 28 - Mussolini hanged by Italian partisans; Venice falls to Allied forces April 30 - Adolf Hitler and wife Eva Braun commit suicide in Chancellery bunker May 2 -All German forces in Italy surrender May 7 - Unconditional surrender of all German forces May 8 - Victory in Europe (VE) Day
June 2 - Navy "E" Award presented to Pratt & Whitney
August 14 - Navy "E" Award presented to Sunflower Plant
August 6 - First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima August 8 - Soviet Union declares war on Japan; Soviet forces invade Manchuria August 9 - Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki August 14 - Unconditional surrender of Japanese forces August 15 - Victory over Japan (VJ) Day January 7, 1946 - United Nations meets for first time in London