In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

Work on Volume 2, was begun in 1941, interrupted by the war in 1942, and resumed in 1945.

During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

M. Kegham -- the name is a pseudynom -- was a teacher in Bucharest and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( ARF ) -- two reasons the Communists put him away when they arrived in 1945.

The group of elements is more diverse than the lanthanides and therefore it was not until 1945 that Glenn T. Seaborg proposed the most significant change to Mendeleev's periodic table, by introducing the actinides.

The discovery was kept secret and only released to the public in November 1945.

The discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.

After 1945 this territory around Königsberg was turned into Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, where amber is now systematically mined.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

The chemical structure of penicillin was determined by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1945.

On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

The StuG III was the most-produced German armored fighting vehicle of any type built during the war years, with some 9, 400 examples built from January 1940 through March 1945.

In 1945, the first formal women's barbershop organization, Sweet Adelines, was formed.

In 1945, a new base was constructed on the island of Terceira, and it is named Lajes Field.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( 1701 – 1918 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ) and the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ).

Both republics and the Soviet Union joined the UN when the organization was founded in 1945.

* End of Estado Novo ( 1945 ): Then Dictator Getúlio Vargas is deposed by generals and later General Eurico Dutra was elected president.

At the end of the war in 1945 he served as a liaison and interpreter to U. S. Sixth Army Group commander General Jacob Devers in Devers ' surrender negotiations with the German forces in western Austria.

During 1944 – 1945, he served as a liaison officer and war correspondent for the U. S. Army in Europe.

The 50th Fighter Group flew P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber aircraft from the airport until September, then liaison squadrons used the airfield until October 1945.

Arletty was imprisoned in 1945 for having had a wartime liaison with a German officer during the occupation of France.

Planning was well advanced by the end of 1945, when the European Theater Headquarters notified the War Department that the constabulary would be organized as an elite force, composed of the highest caliber personnel obtainable under the voluntary re-enlistment program, and that it would be equipped with an efficient communications network, sufficient vehicles and liaison airplanes to make it highly mobile, and the most modern weapons.

Promoted to commander on 31 December 1944, he was posted as liaison officer between the British Pacific Fleet and the United States Third Fleet in January 1945 and was awarded the United States Legion of Merit for his actions.

By early 1945, Thai air force officers were performing liaison duties with South East Asia Command in Kandy and Calcutta.

He became social advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and political advisor to his New Life Movement and served as an advisor to US military intelligence from 1944 to 1945 as a liaison between the American military and the Chinese Communist forces fighting against the Japanese in World War II.

The consensus account is that American Lieutenant Emerson Hunt, a liaison officer between Ozark HQ and the 701st Tank Battalion, was captured by German forces on April 14, 1945, that he bluffed the German forces defending the town of Gardelegen into believing that American tanks were approaching the city, and that this induced the German commander to surrender to the American forces.

Patch narrowly escaped injury or death on 18 April 1945 when a German Messerschmitt Me 109 fighter intercepted the United States Army Air Forces 72nd Liaison Squadron Stinson L-5 Sentinel liaison aircraft Sea Level, which was taking him from Kitzingen to Öhringen, Germany, to coordinate operations during the Battle of Nuremberg.

She became even more familiar with it in January 1942 when she was appointed liaison officer with the Czechoslovak relief agency, Centre d ' Aide Tsechoslovaque, but not until 1945 would the USC become her life's major work and mission.

From 1945 to 1950, the Army and later the Air Force intermittently operated small detachments from Kunsan, with these detachments maintaining liaison aircraft.

In March 1945, Wisner was transferred to Wiesbaden, where he served as OSS liaison to the Gehlen Organisation.

During the Second World War he acted as a liaison with the Free French in Cairo, played an unknown role in the Balkans, based in Bucharest, and was finally posted to Moscow, where he witnessed the victory celebrations of 1945, standing alongside the Soviet Politburo ( see ' Problems of Adjustment in the Middle East ' ( 1952 ), 61 ) and where he remained for the next four years.

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Theodor Dannecker, German Nazi officer ( b. 1913 )

* 1945 – Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service ( d. 2010 )

* 1895 – Wilhelm Burgdorf, German officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1911 – William Darby, American World War II Army officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1894 – Artur Nebe, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1919 – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

** Alexander Patch, officer in the United States Army ( d. 1945 )

George Smith Patton, Jr. ( November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945 ) was an officer in the United States Army best known for his leadership as a general during World War II.

Hollings served as an officer in the U. S. Army's 323rd and 457th Artillery units from 1942 to 1945, during World War II, and was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in direct support of combat operations from December 13, 1944 to May 1, 1945 in France and Germany.

Nishi would later die in 1945 as an officer stationed in the defense of the island of Iwo Jima, and as such is a main character in Clint Eastwood's film, Letters from Iwo Jima.

One of Pendergast's political proteges was a young World War I veteran from Independence: Harry S. Truman, who had been his nephew's commanding officer in the war, was elected Presiding Judge ( equivalent to a County Executive ) of Jackson County with Pendergast support in 1926, went on to become a U. S. Senator from Missouri, Vice President, and in 1945, following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-third President of the United States.

* John J. McKeithen, governor of Louisiana ( 1964 – 1972 ); Louisiana Public Service Commissioner ( 1955 – 1964 ); state representative ( 1948 – 1952 ); U. S. Army combat officer ( 1942 – 1945 ) having received two Bronze Stars in the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima

On 8 May 1945 the ADSEC Engineer Group A, led by Col. Helmer Swenholt, commanding officer of the 332nd Engineer General Service Regiment, constructed a railway bridge between Duisburg and Rheinhausen across the Rhine River.

Smothers was born in New York City, the son of Ruth ( née Remick ), a homemaker ; and Thomas B. Smothers, an army officer who died a POW in April 1945.

* John J. McKeithen, governor of Louisiana ( 1964 – 1972 ); Louisiana Public Service Commissioner ( 1955 – 1964 ); state representative ( 1948 – 1952 ); U. S. Army combat officer ( 1942 – 1945 ) having received two Bronze Stars in the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima

However, some prisoners were executed after being implicated in the shooting death in Putten of an important German officer by the Dutch Resistance and disastrously, in March and April 1945, the centre of Doetinchem was largely destroyed by Allied bombing which was either intended for nearby German towns or, as some say, was to destroy the German defenses in Doetinchem.

His most successful book emerged from his assignment as a British intelligence officer in 1945 to discover what happened in the last days of Hitler's bunker.

Albert Leroy David ( July 18, 1902 – September 17, 1945 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during World War II and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.

Promoted to war substantive flying officer in March 1945, he remained in the RAF after the war on extended service as a flying officer.

Friedrich Fromm, a German officer involved in the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler, was executed here in March 1945 for his part in the plot, even though Fromm betrayed those conspirators he knew and ordered their execution.

She met George Herbert Walker Bush at age 16, and the two married in 1945, while he was on leave during his deployment as a Naval officer in World War II.