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{{calendar|year=1945|month=February}}
[[File:Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, larger.jpeg|500px|thumb|February 23, 1945: ''[[Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima]]''
The following events occurred in '''February 1945''':
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==[[February 1]], 1945 (Thursday)==
*The Second [[Battle of Kesternich]] ended in U.S. victory.
*Soviet forces reached [[Lubno, Lubusz Voivodeship|Liebenow]].<ref name="day by day">{{cite book |last=Leonard |first=Thomas M. |
*The North Tube of the [[Lincoln Tunnel]]
*'''Died:''' [[Prince Kiril of Bulgaria]], 49; [[Bogdan Filov]]. 61, Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 1940 to 1943 (executed by firing squad)
==[[February 2]], 1945 (Friday)==
*The [[Vistula–Oder Offensive]] ended in Soviet victory.
*The liberation of [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] was reported by [[Boris Polevoy]] in the Soviet newspaper ''[[Pravda]]'' but without mention that the majority of the inmates were Jewish, and the report attracted little notice at the time.<ref>{{cite book|last=Stone|first=Dan|author-link=Dan Stone (historian)|title=The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven; London|year=2015|isbn=978-0-300-20457-5|page=46}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Rees|first=Laurence|author-link=Laurence Rees|title=Auschwitz: A New History|year=2005|publisher=Public Affairs|location=New York|isbn=1-58648-303-X|url=https://archive.org/details/auschwitznewhist00rees|page=262}}</ref>
*The four-day [[Malta Conference (1945)|Malta Conference]] between [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Winston Churchill]] ended with an agreement to withdraw two divisions from Greece and three from Italy to reinforce northwest Europe. They proceeded to [[Yalta]] for a conference with [[Joseph Stalin]].<ref name="day by day" />
*'''Died:''' [[Adolf Brand]], 70, German writer, anarchist and gay rights activist (killed in an Allied bombing raid); [[Karl Friedrich Goerdeler]], 60, German politician (hanged by the Nazis for treason); [[Joe Hunt]], 25, American tennis player (killed in a plane crash during a military training exercise)
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==[[February 14]], 1945 (Wednesday)==
*[[United States Army Air Forces|U.S. Army Air Forces]] carried out the [[1945 Bombing of Prague|Bombing of Prague]]. 701 people were killed, and about 100 houses and historical sites were destroyed in what was attributed to a navigation mistake.
*Red Army forces liberated the [[Gross-Rosen concentration camp]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19450213/ |title=War Diary for Tuesday, 13 February 1945 |website=Stone & Stone Books |access-date=March 28, 2016 }}</ref>
*German submarine ''[[German submarine U-989|U-989]]'' was depth charged and sunk in the North Atlantic by British warships.
*[[President Franklin D. Roosevelt]] meets King [[Ibn Saud]] of [[Saudi Arabia]] aboard
*'''Born:''' [[Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein]], in [[Zürich]], [[Switzerland]]
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==[[February 19]], 1945 (Monday)==
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*The [[Battle of Iwo Jima]] began when American troops under Admiral [[Raymond A. Spruance]] landed on the island of [[Iwo Jima]].<ref name="chronicle of the 20th c. " />
*'''Died:''' [[John Basilone]], 28, U.S. Marine and [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (killed in the Battle of Iwo Jima), [[Darrell S. Cole]], 24, U.S. Marine and posthumous Medal of Honor recipient (killed in the Battle of Iwo Jima)
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==[[February 21]], 1945 (Wednesday)==
[[File:USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) explodes after being hit by a Kamikaze off Iwo Jima, February 1945.jpg|thumb|right|USS ''Bismarck Sea'' exploding after ''kamikaze'' hit
*The American escort carrier
*The [[Battle of Baguio (1945)|Battle of Baguio]] began in the Philippines.
*The war film ''[[God Is My Co-Pilot (film)|God Is My Co-Pilot]]'', starring [[Dennis Morgan]] and based on the 1943 autobiography of the same name by [[Robert Lee Scott, Jr.]], had its world premiere in Scott's hometown of [[Macon, Georgia]]. The day had been proclaimed "Robert Lee Scott-God Is My Co-Pilot Day" throughout the state of Georgia, and a special War Bond rally was held in conjunction with the premiere.<ref>{{cite journal |date=March 3, 1945 |title=Exploiting the New Films |url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpictureher1581unse#page/n55/mode/2up |journal=[[Motion Picture Herald]] |page=48}}</ref>
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