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April 1945
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Suicide of Adolf Hitler in the Berlin bunker
Red Flag raised over the Reichstag.
US 1st Army meets Soviet troops at Eilenburg
US 7th Army clears Munich
US 3rd Army liberates 110,000 prisoners of war
Allied representatives meet with Seyss-Inquart to arrange for the delivery of relief supplies to Holland
The French invading from the north west link up with the US 5th Army on the Franco-Italian border
14th Army captures Pegu
Over the previous five days Japanese air attacks have sunk 20 allied ships off Okinawa. Most attacks are made by kamikaze pilots
German submarine U-1107 sunk off Brest
German submariness U-548 and U-879 sunk with all hands off Cape Hatteras
No civilian casualties are suffered in April