World War II Timeline Capsule From 1945 Reports
A dense chronology recounts major WWII events from 1945, including Allied advances across Belgium and Germany, the fall of Berlin and Tokyo Bay surrender, battles in the Philippines, Mindanao, Okinawa, and Luzon, the Yalta discussions, and postwar milestones such as Japan's surrender, German capitulation, and the dawning peace era with leaders like MacArthur and Truman shaping the immediate aftermath. It lists key dates, locations, and military actions across Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, highlighting Axis defeats and Allied advances, with notes on political developments and notable casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S Third Army
Bastogne
Belgium
France
U.S
Italy
Pacific
Lauzon
Negros Islands
Philippines
MacArthur
Luzon
Warsaw
Oder River
U. S. First Army
St Vith
Aachen
Germany
Berlin
Oberhausen
Okinawa
Vienna
Austria
Leipzig
Nuremberg
Novi
Bremen
Stettin
Baltic
U. S
Elbe
Torgau
Gegenbach
Kurt Dittmar Ves Sels
Magdeburg
Presider
Benito Mussolini
Congo
Seventh Army
Munich
Venice
Milan
Fifth Army
Reichstag
Stalin
Russia
Faserta
Zhukov
Konev
Borneo
Netherlands
Denmark
Helgoland
Frisian
Montgomery
U S
Devers
Swinemuende
Vu. S. Third Army
Czechoslovakia
Pilsen
Karlsbad
Gustav Jodl
Reims
Europe
U. S War and Navy
Tokyo
Nanning
Japan
Manchuria
Nagasaki
Hiroshina
Emperor Hirohito
Ussians
Truman
Hirohito
Emperor Arrohito
Potsdam
Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni
Truk
Rota
Yap
Jaluit
Yamashita
Jonathan Wainwright
Mukden
China
Chung- Ing
General MacArthur
New Grand Hotel
Yokoama
Postwar U S Policy Milestones and Leadership Changes
Congress reconvenes with Sam Rayburn reelected speaker while FDR’s wartime program details loom. Roosevelt urges a National Service Act draft expansions and universal military training after the war, plus a peace tax program and a 1946 budget plan. Truman assumes presidency after Roosevelt dies, addresses Congress, UN opens, and draft extends. War boards ease controls as Truman reshapes federal offices and war crimes tribunal leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Sam Rayburn
House
Roosevelt
Truman
Robert H. Jackson
U. S. Supreme Court
United States
Robert E Han- Negan
Democratic National Committee
Renera
Frank Walker
Southern California U. wins Rose Bowl 25 to 0 over Tennessee
Southern California University dominates the Rose Bowl defeating Tennessee 25 to 0. Other college football scores include Duke 29 over Alabama 26 and Miami 26 over Georgia Tech 12. Shriner game in San Francisco featured West 13 East 7. Southwestern U. 35 over National U. in Mexico. Sammy Snead captures Los Angeles Open with a 28 26 scoreline. Larry McPhail leads Yankees syndication. Byron Nelson wins New Orleans Open after playoff with Jay McSpaden. New York Athletic Club holds team title at National AAU meet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern California U
Tennessee
Duke
Alabama
Miami
Georgia Tech
Shriner
San Francisco
West
East
Southwestern U
National U
Mexico
Sammy Snead
New York Yankees
Larry McPhail
Byron Nelson
Jay McSpaden
New York
Thletie Club
Tremendous 1944 Disasters and Losses Across the Nation
The report catalogs a string of catastrophes including a 31 day Auburn nursery fire with sixteen children and a woman killed, a Meridian tornado causing 12 43 deaths and hundreds injured, and a flood across five states from Ohio River levels. It notes a B 25 crash into the Empire State Building with 35 dead, a Michigan railroad collision, a deadly Texas hurricane, a Milam hurricane strike, a fatal Chelan bus accident, a massive northeastern snowstorm with 33 deaths, a Chicago train collision wounding sailors, and a record seven billion dollars in liquor consumed in 1944, up 18 percent from 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire State Building
New York City
Michigan
Texas
Milam
Lake Chelan
Chelan
Wash
Chicago
Notable Deaths Reported Across Nations and World Leaders
A Western Newspaper Union release lists prominent figures who died recently including U S Senator Francis T Maloney of Connecticut at age 60s in Meriden and 82 year old William E Pussyfoot Johnson in Binghamton New York notable for his prohibition leadership Lincoln Nebraska saw Charles W Bryan brother of William Jennings Bryan and three term Nebraska governor Alfred V De Forest a Marlboro New Hampshire engineer professor and radio inventor Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs Georgia and war correspondent Ernie Pyle killed near Okinawa Heber J Grant 88 president of the Latter Day Saints Hiram W Johnson 79 in Washington DC John McCormack 61 Dublin Irish tenor John Thomas 71 Idaho senator Gen Alexander Patch Jr 55 former Seventh Army commander Dwight Davis 66 former US secretary of war in Coolidge cabinet DC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrnes
Henry A. Wallace
Commerce
Senate
J—William Davis
Fred Vinson
Army
McNarney
Bradley
Krueger
Somervell
Spaatz
Kenney
Clark
Devers
Handy
Willliam E
Pussyfoot
Johnson
Binghamton, N. Y
Charles W. Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
Alfred V. de Forest
Marlboro
N. H
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Ernie Pyle
Te Island
Okinawa
John Thomas
Idaho
Washington, D. C
Alexander Patch Jr
Seventh Army
Fourth
San Antonio
Tex
Dwight Davis
Calvin Coolidge
Washington, DC
Western
Union
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APS
First
U. S. Cavalry
Manila
U. First Army
Roer River
Guam
Yalta
Budapest
Bataan
Berchtesgaden
Hitler
Chaling
Hunan
Cologne
First Army
Mindanao
London
Holland
Coblenz
Ludwigshafen
Rhine River
Admiral Halsey
Osaka
Mac.arthur
Honshu
Japai
Labor Party
Shimizu
Honshu Island
U. S. Twentieth Air Force
Hiroshima
U. S. Eighth Army
Yokohama
Hong Kong
Missouri
Tokyo Bay
Navy
Beas
MacArthur lI
Hideki Tojo
Britain
George Patton
Bavaria
Pierre Laval
Vidkun Quisling
Syria
Lebanon
Egypt
Palestine
Shanhaikwan
Java
Iran
Nuernberg
Teheran
Nashimoto
T—Jap
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Tiger of
The
Levant
Fumimara Konoye
Great Britain
Moscow
War Production Board
Truman Thomas Clark
Francis Biddle
Lewis Schwellenbach
Frances Perkins
Clinton Anderson
Claude Wickard
James Doolittle
Omar Bradley
Randolph Co. Mo
James F. Byrnes
Agriculture Department
OPA
Newark
N. J
United Nations Chater
Petroleum Administration
WMC
Washington
Bermuda
Commission
Western Union Telegraph
President Truman
Attlee
Pearl Harbor
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors
Montgomery, Ward and Co
Fleet
Karl Hoffman
Robert Storz
Ida Grove
Towa
Governor Green of
Winds
Republian National Committee
Earl Wilson
Sugar Branch
George Carshall
Far East
James Rafferty
K. of C
Gunder Haegeg
Mehio Bettina
Jimmy Bivins
Joe Baksi
Lou Nova
Ohio State
Ann Arbor
Mich
Frank Sinkwich
Detroit Tions
Ann Curtis
Toronto Maple Leafs
Red Wings
Sen
Albert
Happy) Chandler
Kentucky
Kenesaw M. Landis
Hoop Jr
Eddie Arecaro
Sammy Byrd
Detroit
Welby van Horn
Tommy Holmes
Boston Braves
Charles Beaudry
Marquette U
Milwaukee
Bloomfield
Hambletonian Stake
Titan Hanover
Harry Pownall
Goshen
Michigan State College
Robert Feller
Cleveland Indians
Green Bay Packers
Sarah Cooke
Boston
Pauline Betz
Los Angeles
Forest Mills
N. Y
Segt
Frank Parker
Forest Park
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis
Detroit Tigers
Louisville Colonels
American Association
Newark Bears
Louisville
Joe Lous
Billy Conn
Phil Cavarretta
Hal Newhouser
Washington Redskins
New York Giants
War Stimson
Elliott Roosevelt
Faye
Hollywood
Calif
England
Variety
Greer Garson
Gallup
Booth Tarkington
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Bing Crosby
Ingrid Bergman
Gloria Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Leopold Stokowski
Candy
Leland
Larry MacPhail
N. Y. Yankees
Jean B. Wanamaker
Baltimore
Lauren Bacall
Humphrey Bogart
Mansfield
Deanna Durbin
Felix Jackson
Las Vegas
Merle Oberon
Lucien Ballard
Juarez
Montana
Canada
Virginia
Ginny) Simms
Hyatt R. Dehn
Beverly Hilll
Billboard Theatrical Magazine
Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe
Betty Hutton
Theodore Briskin
Shirley Temple
John Agar
Lake Forest
Ill
Glouesters
Billboard Magazine
Navajo Trail
U. S. Navy
Honolulu
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Judy Hackman
Seattle
Carole Landis
W Horace Schmidlapp
George S. Patton Jr
Navy Hospital
Vallejo
Deta
Quisling
Eears
Lg See
Eeene Lee Osey
PEA
Mac
Auburn
Meridian
Miss
Ala
Ohio River
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Illinois
S Anders
Okla
Milton
Department of Commerce
Francis T. Maloney
Conn
Meriden
Heber J. Grant
Salt Lake City
Hiram W. Johnson
John McCormack
Dublin
Eire
Bailey & Bailey Attorneys-at-Law
McCoy-Tanner Bldg
Sikeston, MO
George W. Kirk
Applegate Bldg
Robert A. Dempster
McCoy-Tanner
E. J. Menstedt
Front Street
Sikeston
Howard A. Dunaway
M.D
McCoy-Tanner Building
F. L. Sisson
Chiropractor
North Kingshighway
Optometry
W. L. Sidwell
O. D
wic-Coy-Tanner Building
Lenzie Beck
C. B. Turner
Scott Street Garage
South Scott
Ford
Malter
W. Malone
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