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My focus for this site has been on the 133rd Regiment of the division, my grandfather's unit. Below you will find a chronological synopsis of the 133rd in WWII. The highlighted area indicates the period of time that my grandfather saw action.
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A Basic
WWII Timeline
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Pacific
Theater
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Mediterranean
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Europe
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| December 7, 1941 | Japan bombs Pearl Harbor | ||
| December 8, 1941 | US and Britian declare war on Japan | ||
| December 11, 1941 | Germany declares war on the US | ||
| 1942 | |||
| January 26, 1942 | 1st US forces arrive in Britain | ||
| April 10, 1942 | Bataan Death March begins as 76,000 Allied POWs including 12,000 Americans are forced to walk 60 miles under a blazing sun without food or water toward a new POW camp, resulting in over 5,000 American deaths. | ||
| June 4-7, 1942 | Battle of Midway | ||
| June 7, 1942 | Japanese invade the Aleutian Islands | ||
| September 13, 1942 | |||
| October 13, 1942 | The first U.S. Army troops, the 164th Infantry Regiment, land on Guadalcanal. | ||
| November 8, 1942 | Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa) | ||
| 1943 | |||
| Jan 23, 1943 | Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli | ||
| Jan 27, 1943 | First bombing raid by Americans on Germany at Wilhelmshaven | ||
| Feb 2, 1943 | |||
| Feb 9, 1943 | Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends | ||
| Feb 14-25 | Battle of Kasserine Pass between the U.S. 1st Armored Division and German Panzers in North Africa | ||
| May 7, 1943 | Allies take Tunisia. | ||
| May 13, 1943 | German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa | ||
| June 9, 1943 | Allies land in Sicily | ||
| August 12, 1943 | Germans evacuate Sicily | ||
| September 8, 1943 | Italian surrender is announced | ||
| Oct 1, 1943 | Allies enter Naples, Italy | ||
| October 13, 1943 | Italy declares war on Germany | ||
| November 1, 1943 | U.S. Marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands | ||
| November 20, 1943 | U.S. Troops invade Makin and Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands | ||
| 1944 | |||
| January 6, 1944 | |||
| January 17, 1944 | First attack toward Cassino | ||
| January 22, 1944 | Allies land at Anzio | ||
| January 27, 1944 | |||
| February 15, 1944 | Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino | ||
| March 15, 1944 | Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins | ||
| May 11, 1944 | Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome | ||
| May 25, 1944 | Germans retreat from Anzio | ||
| June 5, 1944 | Allies enter Rome | ||
| June 6, 1944 | D-Day | ||
| June 15, 1944 | U.S. Marines invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands | D-Day | |
| July 19, 1944 | U.S. Marines invade Guam in the Marianas. | D-Day | |
| Sept 17, 1944 | Operation Market Garden begins in Holland | ||
| October 20, 1944 | U.S. Sixth Army invades Leyte in the Philippines | D-Day | |
| December 16-27 | Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes | ||
| 1945 | |||
| January 17, 1945 | |||
| February 16, 1945 | U.S. Troops recapture Bataan in the Philippines | ||
| March 7, 1945 | Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen | ||
| April 16, 1945 | |||
| April 21, 1945 | |||
| April 30, 1945 | Adolf Hitler commits suicide | ||
| May 2, 1945 | German troops in Italy surrender | ||
| May 7, 1945 | Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies | ||
| May 8, 1945 | V-E (Victory in Europe) Day | ||
| August 6, 1945 | First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan | ||
| August 8, 1945 | |||
| August 9, 1945 | Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan | ||
| August 14, 1945 | Japanese agree to unconditional surrender | ||
| September 2, 1945 | V-J (Victory over Japan) Day | ||