War Diary – April

War Diary – April

9TH APRIL 1940
Germany invades Norway; major Norwegian ports occupied by advance detachments of German troops. Simultaneously. German troopships, covered by aircraft, enter Copenhagen harbour as Denmark becomes occupied territory

9TH APRIL 1940
Germans seize Denmark, invade Norway, Oslo captured

14TH APRIL 1940
British forces make landings in Norway

24TH APRIL – 28TH MAY 1940
Battle for Narvik

3RD APRIL 1941
Rashid ALI coup in Iraq

4TH APRIL 1941
British capture Addis Ababa

6TH APRIL 1941
Germans launch Operation Marita, invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece

9TH APRIL 1941
Axis captures Bardia

10TH APRIL 1941
US protectorate over Greenland

12TH APRIL 1941
Belgrade falls

13TH APRIL 1941
USSR and Japan sign Neutrality Pact

17TH APRIL 1941
Yugoslavia capitulates

18TH APRIL 1941
British land at Basra, Iraq

22ND APRIL 1941
British begin withdrawal from Greece

23TH APRIL 1941
Greek Army surrenders to Germans

27TH APRIL 1941
Axis occupies Halfaya Pass

28TH APRIL 1941
Axis takes Sollum

2ND – 8TH APRIL 1942
Japanese carrier aircraft strike Ceylon

3RD APRIL 1942
Japanese open final Bataan offensive

9TH APRIL 1942
Bataan surrenders

18TH APRIL 1942
US (Doolittle) B-25 raid on Japan

29TH APRIL 1942
Japanese take Lashio, Burma road terminus

19TH APRIL 1943
Rising in Warsaw ghetto

3rd APRIL 1944
British carrier aircraft damages Tirpitz

5TH APRIL 1944
US Fifteenth Air Force bombers raid Ploesti, Rumania

9TH APRIL 1944
Japanese invest Imphal and Kohima, India

18TH APRIL 1944
In the heaviest Allied air raid of the war over 2,000 bombers drop more then 4,000 tons of bombs on German. Meanwhile, the last of the Operation Steinbeck raids on London occurs, with an attack on the capital by more then 100 bombers.

22ND APRIL 1944
US forces land in Hollandia area, New Guinea

1ST APRIL 1945
US forces land on Okinawa

5TH APRIL 1945
Koiso resigns as Japanese Prime Minister, Suzuki succeeds

7TH APRIL 1945
Japanese superbattleship Yamato sunk

9TH APRIL 1945
Allies begin attack on Gothic Line

12TH APRIL 1945
Roosevelt dies; Harry S. Truman succeeds as US President

13TH APRIL 1945
Vienna falls to Soviet Army

15TH APRIL 1945
British troops liberate the Bergen- Belsen concentration camp in north – eastern Germany. The Allied liberation of this and other concentration and extermination camps reveals the full extent of the Nazis genocidal policies

16TH APRIL 1945
Soviet Army begins final Berlin offensive

18TH APRIL 1945
US forces complete Ruhr operations, taking more then 300,000 prisoners; US Third Army troops enter Czechoslovakia

21ST APRIL 1945

Allies take Bologna

23RD APRIL 1945
Himmler makes surrender offer to Western Allies

25TH APRIL 1945
United Nations conference opens in San Francisco, US and Soviet forces meet near Torgau, splitting Germany in two

28TH APRIL 1945
Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by partisans

30TH APRIL 1945
Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide; she by poison and he by shooting.

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