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  • France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Germany
    Thursday Mar 8, 1945
    World War II

    The Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine

    France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Germany
    Thursday Mar 8, 1945

    The Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine (25 August 1944–7 March 1945), also known as the Siegfried Line campaign, was a phase in the Western European campaign of the World War.



    U.S. Army troops cross the Siegfried Line
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  • Tokyo, Japan
    Thursday Mar 8, 1945
    World War II

    Bombing of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan
    Thursday Mar 8, 1945

    A devastating bombing raid on Tokyo of 9–10 March was the deadliest conventional bombing raid in history.



    Tokyo burns under B-29 firebomb assault
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