** 25 cent WWII ( Dutch coin )

** WWII: Forward elements of General Hoeppner's XVI Panzerkorps take up positions outside Warsaw.

** WWII: Polish troops on the Westerplatte are forced, due to lack of food and ammunition, to surrender.

** WWII – Sonderaktion Krakau: Germans take action against scientists from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of WWII.

** WWII – Winter War: Soviet forces attack Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.

** WWII – Sweden declares non-belligerency in the Winter War.

** George Unwin, British fighter ace of WWII ( d. 2006 )

** WWII: The 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division is re-created, marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army.

** WWII: The Japanese launch an offensive in central and south China.

** WWII: A train stalls inside a railway tunnel outside Salerno, Italy ; 521 choke to death.

** WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino: Allied aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.

** WWII: The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.

** Operation Bagration: A general attack by Soviet forces clears the German forces from Belarus, resulting in the destruction of German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.

** WWII: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U. S. Army bus.

** WWII: Over 500 Japanese prisoners-of-war attempt a mass breakout from the Cowra POW Camp.

** WWII: A Soviet patrol arrests Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary.

** WWII: The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw, Poland.

** WWII: " Black Friday ": A force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffers heavy casualties in an unsuccessful attack on German destroyer Z33 and escorting vessels sheltering in Førde Fjord, Norway.

** WWII – Operation Varsity: Two airborne divisions capture bridges across the Rhine River to aid the Allied advance.

** WWII: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.

** WWII – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops link up at the Elbe River, cutting Germany in two.

** V-E Day ( Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders ) commemorates the end of WWII in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.

** WWII: Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio.

** WWII: Korea gains independence following Japan's surrender.

** Iran ( which has provided weapons for Russia ) refuses to support the Allied Forces after the October Revolution.

** Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to Germany.

** Battle of Monte Cassino: The Germans evacuate Monte Cassino and Allied forces take the stronghold after a struggle that claimed 20, 000 lives.

** Operation Market Garden ends in an Allied withdrawal.

** The Allied Forces liberate the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald.

** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

** Battle of the Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia ; it is the United States ' first major battle defeat of the war.

** Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI is the first Allied ship to sink a Japanese warship, sinking the destroyer Sagiri near Sarawak ; K XVI is herself torpedoed the following day by Japanese submarine I 66.

** WWII: Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.

** WWII: In response to Germany levelling Coventry 2 days before, the Royal Air Force begins to bomb Hamburg ( by war's end, 50, 000 Hamburg residents will have died from Allied attacks ).

** Allied forces occupy Düsseldorf, Ruhrort and Duisburg.

** After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares its permanent neutrality.

** The Center for Neurofibromatosis and Allied Disorders at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

** Chair of the Allied Council for Japan

** 1945-1952 — Head of the Economics and Science Section General Headquarters for the Supreme Allied Powers-Tokyo, Japan

** Allied Health, with concentrations in health science and technology

** Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe ( DSACEUR ) – Field Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British Army

** Allied Forces Northern Europe ( AFNORTH ) – Lieutenant-General Sir C. S.

** Allied Forces Central Europe ( AFCENT ) – Général d ' Armée Jean-Étienne Valluy, French Army

** Allied Forces Southern Europe ( AFSOUTH ) – Admiral R. P. M.

** Allied Forces Mediterranean ( AFMED ) – Admiral Sir Ralph Edwards, RN