Yalta Conference
Feb 4 Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of the war
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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
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
- Feb 12 SF selected for site of UN Conference
- Feb 13 Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die
- Feb 13 Gerbrandy Dutch government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy
- Feb 13 USSR captures Budapest, after a 49-day battle with Germany; 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