1945 Hitler is dead!

Hitler is dead. Today 30^th of April Hitler committed suicide together with his mistress Eva Braun, who he married shortly before his death. The allies were closing in on Berlin. Hitler who was at the time staying in a war bunker in Berlin did not want to be captured by his enemies. 

1945, August 11th

Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on the 6th August, killing perhaps as many as 84 000 people and leaving thousands more slowly dying of radiation poisoning. Three days later they dropped a bomb on Nagasaki. This killed another 40 000 people. The japanese government has now surrendered. Truman’s justification was that he was saving American lives, since the war might otherwise drag on for another year.

1944 D-Day

·         Tuesday, 6 June 1944 D-Day: The Allies reached the shore of Normandy, France. 160,000 of our Allied troops landed along a heavily-fortified French coastline to fight the Nazi Germany. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory” More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircrafts where under operation on the D-Day invasion, and by the end of that day, the Allies had already gained a foot-hold in Normandy. Over 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded – we shall never forget the brave soldiers. But more than 100,000 soldiers began the march across Europe to Berlin.

1944 Iwo Jima

·         Today USA has captured Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. From the 19^th of February to March 26 American troops have been fighting the Japanese on the island Iwo Jima. The mission was to capture the island to take control over the three airfields on the island. 6,822 US soldiers were killed and over 19000 soldiers were killed. The capture of Iwo Jima has marked a tremendous victory for the US over the Japanese. 

1943, July 10th

The armed forces of Britain, the United States and Canada have landed on the Mediterranean island of Sicily.

It is the first major landing of British troops on European soil since the fall of Crete two years ago.

Initial resistance has been surprisingly weak against British forces with little anti-aircraft fire and no enemy naval intervention. However, the US forces faced a tougher fight on their beaches.

The Times reports Allied air forces acted in close co-operation with naval and ground forces.

Late last night airborne troops in parachutes and gliders - many of whom fought in North Africa - were dropped over the island.

1943, February 2nd

The Soviet Government has announced the final defeat of the German 6th Army at the port of Stalingrad, in southern Russia.

A statement late this evening said: "Our forces have now completed the liquidation of the German Fascist troops encircled in the area of Stalingrad.

"The last centre of enemy resistance in the Stalingrad area has thus been crushed."

The declaration brings to an end five months of heavy fighting for the city. The battle has been described as among the most terrible of the war so far.

1942, November 25th

In the end of august this year, the Germans reached Stalingrad. Even though the city was more or less destroyed, the Russians refused to surrender. They have now started a ferocious counter-attack and the last weeks we have seen drastic change. They have trapped the Germans, whose supply lines were dangerously extended, in a large pincer movement. With his retreat cut off, the German commander von Paulus had no reasonable alternative but to surrender with 94 000 men. We believe this may lead to a turning point in the war.