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| 1945 March 23 |
| | | Montgomery's Twenty-First Army Group crosses the Rhine at several points in the north | |
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| 1945 March 24 |
| | | At a cost of 20,000 dead, US marines win full control of the small strategic island of Iwo Jima | |
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| 1945 March 27 |
| | | Aung San's army, now named the Burma National Army, changes sides in a surprise move and attacks the Japanese | |
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| 1945 April |
| | | Adolf Hitler orders a scorched earth policy within Germany, in the path of the advancing Allies | |
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| 1945 April 5 |
| | | US troops land on the island of Okinawa, only 300 miles from the main islands of Japan | |
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| 1945 April 5 |
| | | Dietrich Bonhoeffer is executed in a Nazi concentration camp just a month before the end of the war in Europe | |
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| 1945 April 6 |
| | | Thousands of Japanese kamikaze pilots die in massed suicide attacks in defence of the island of Okinawa | |
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| 1945 April 11 |
| | | American troops discover the German concentration camp at Buchenwald | |
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| 1945 April 12 |
| | | President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies and is succeeded by his vice-president, Harry S. Truman | |
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| 1945 April 12 |
| | | A US destroyer is sunk by a baka, a rocket-propelled version of a kamikaze attack | |
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