Yalta Conference
Feb 4 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of World War II
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- Feb 5 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
Event of Interest
Feb 5 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Crimea
Winston Churchill
Event of Interest
Feb 5 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla
Douglas MacArthur
- Feb 6 US 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz
- Feb 6 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder
- Feb 7 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila
- Feb 7 Harry Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
- Feb 7 US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
- Feb 7 London, Washington and Moscow discuss final phase of World War II
- Feb 8 Allied air attack on Goch, Kleef, Kalkar and Reichswald
Agreement of Interest
Feb 8 Paul Brown agrees to coach the new American football expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach
Paul Brown
- Feb 9 -Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen
- Feb 9 WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire
- Feb 9 The Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway
- Feb 10 "Rum & Coca-Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
- Feb 11 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA
Conference of Interest
Feb 11 Declaration of Liberated Europe signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin after the Yalta Conference
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
- Feb 12 SF selected for site of UN Conference
Bombing of Dresden
Feb 13 Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die
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- Feb 13 Gerbrandy Dutch government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy
- Feb 13 USSR captures Budapest, after a 49-day battle with Nazi Germany in which 159,000 die
- Feb 14 Second day of the bombing of Dresden by Allied air forces
- Feb 14 Peru, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador joins UN
- Feb 14 World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.
- Feb 14 World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
- Feb 16 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
- Feb 16 Venezuela declares war on Nazi Germany
- Feb 19 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma
- Feb 19 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Feb 19 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines
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- Feb 21 Dutch Archbishop of Utrecht Johannes de Jong calls for help with war casualties following the Nazi occupation of Netherlands from the allies
- Feb 21 Operation Veritable: British Army captures Goch from Germany, forcing German retreat away from the Rhineland
- Feb 21 US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line
- Feb 22 Arab League forms (Cairo)
- Feb 22 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
- Feb 22 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
- Feb 23 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
- Feb 23 Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
- Feb 23 Operation Grenade: US Lieutenant General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr
- Feb 23 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture
- Feb 24 Egypt & Syria declare war on nazi-Germany
- Feb 24 Manila freed from Japanese
- Feb 24 Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree
- Feb 25 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
- Feb 25 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
- Feb 26 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force
- Feb 27 Battle of US 94 Infantry