Timeline: 1945

1945

January: Russian and Polish forces take Warsaw and the Red Army advances through Poland. By the end of the month Russian troops cross into Germany.

3^rd January Hamor Gardner, on board Noranda Park, arrives at Kiddepore docks and unloads equipment for the war in Burma.

February: The Yalta Conference begins, attended by Allied leaders. US troops raise their flag on Iwo Jima. Allied bombing raid on Dresden.

March: Allied armies cross the Rhine. US B-29s launch raid on Tokyo resulting in a firestorm.

April: Death of President Roosevelt. US forces land in Okinawa in Operation Iceberg. Russian troops enter Berlin. Hitler commits suicide.

May: The end of the War in Europe.

8^th May Erwin Grubba celebrates V E Day with his civilian friends on Guernsey, and awaits the arrival of British troops to take him into captivity.

5^th June The Allied Agreement on the Partition of Germany and Berlin is signed by Eisenhower, Montgomery, de Tassigny and Zhukov. Germany is to be divided into zones and Berlin to be jointly occupied. Later this month the UN Charter is signed.

16^th July The US test the first atomic bomb in New Mexico.

August: Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan surrenders. VJ Day, Victory in Japan Day is 15^th August.