REEL 3 – Sensationally restored COLOR FOOTAGE by George Stevens, April 1945

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April 9, 1945 (Monday)

The Battle of Königsberg ended in Soviet victory.
The Battle of West Hunan began as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Battle of Bologna began in Italy.
German cruiser Admiral Scheer was sunk in an RAF raid on Kiel.
German submarines U-804 and U-843 were sunk in the Kattegat by de Havilland Mosquitos of No. 143 Squadron RAF. U-1065 was sunk in the neighboring Skaggerak by Mosquito aircraft of No. 143 and No. 235 Squadron RAF.
Australia’s Z Special Unit began Operation Opossum with the objective of rescuing the Sultan of Ternate from Ternate Island.
Charles de Gaulle nationalized Air France.
The last B-17 rolled off the line at Boeing’s assembly plant in Seattle.
Born: Peter Gammons, sportswriter and media personality, in Boston, Massachusetts
Died: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 39, German Lutheran pastor; Wilhelm Canaris, 58, German admiral; Ludwig Gehre, 49, German officer; Hans Oster, 57, German major general; Karl Sack, 48, German jurist; and Theodor Strünck, 50, German lawyer (executed for treason by the Nazis in Flossenbürg concentration camp); Johann Georg Elser, 42, German carpenter who attempted to assassinate Hitler on November 8, 1939 (shot at Dachau concentration camp)

April 10, 1945 (Tuesday)

The U.S. 84th Infantry Division captured Hanover.
The U.S. Ninth Army captured Essen.
The Battle of Authion began in the French Alps.
In the “day of the great jet massacre,” Allied aircraft shot down thirty of 50 Me 262 jet fighters. The loss was fatal to the Luftwaffe and the defense of Berlin was abandoned.
German submarine U-878 was depth charged and sunk in the Bay of Biscay by British warships.
Died: Gloria Dickson, 27, American actress (asphyxiation from a fire at her home); Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, 62, Dutch artist, typographer and printer (executed by the Gestapo); Walther Wever, 22, German Luftwaffe fighter ace (shot down near Neuruppin); Carl L. Becker, 81, American historian

April 11, 1945 (Wednesday)

Operation Opossum ended successfully with the rescue of the Sultan of Ternate and his family.
Allied commando unit Z Special Unit launched Operation Copper with the objective of capturing a Japanese officer for interrogation and discovering the location of two naval guns of Muschu Island, New Guinea. Eight commandos were landed but only one survived.
Chile declared war on Japan.
Died: Alfred Meyer, 53, German Nazi official, (suicide)
April 12, 1945 (Thursday)
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had an intracerebral hemorrhage, collapsed and died while sitting for a portrait painting by Elizabeth Shoumatoff at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. The painting is known as the Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Harry S. Truman was inaugurated president in the Cabinet Room of the White House.
A devastating tornado outbreak occurs across the United States, which kills 128 people and injures over 1,000 others. This outbreak would be heavily overshadowed due to the death of President Roosevelt.
American destroyers Lindsey, Mannert L. Abele and Zellars were severely damaged off Okinawa by kamikaze attacks. Mannert L. Abele was sunk but Lindsey and Zellars survived, although they were out of action for the rest of the war.
The Syrmian Front northwest of Belgrade was broken by the Allies.
The Battle of Authion ended in Allied victory.
The Battle of Buchhof and Stein am Kocher ended after one week.
German submarines U-486 and U-1024 were sunk by British warships in the North Sea and Irish Sea, respectively.
The Berlin Philharmonic gave one of its final performances of the Nazi era at the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin, with various members of the military and political elite in attendance. Robert Heger conducted Brünnhilde’s last aria (the Immolation Scene) and the finale from Richard Wagner’s Götterdammerung, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, and Anton Bruckner’s Romantic Symphony. Historical records confirm that members of the Hitler Youth offered cyanide capsules to the audience as they left the building.[citation needed]
Died: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 63, 32nd President of the United States (cerebral hemorrhage)

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