Today 23 April 2015. On this day in military history:
In 1942:
Bet has created a group of forces, Volkhov direction of former troops of the Volkhov front. On 9 June she was again converted to the Volkhov front.
Demyansk group of the enemy broke through the encirclement of the troops North-Western front and formed a "corridor ramasheuski" width by the end of April amounted to 6-8 kilometers. Using "ramasheuski corridor" was the Demyansk supply of the surrounded grouping and in the end, she broke free from the "bag".
German aviation during the week dropped bombs on Exeter, bath and other historic centers in the UK.
In 1943:
On the night of April 23, in the battle for the liberation of Novorossiysk killed the pilot of bomber command Eudocia Nosal. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union she was awarded posthumously.
In 1944:
Aircraft of the 4th Ukrainian front made several successful raids on enemy airfields in the area of Sevastopol. Stormtroopers under the command of Lieutenant Veselova, senior Lieutenant of Butovo, Nekrasov and captain-Lieutenant Antonov broke through to the airfield and burned down 10 German planes.
Residents of the village of Lozova Kamyanets-Podilsky region was the act of the atrocities of the Germans: "Germans mocked the Soviet people, humiliated them, raped girls and women. Fascist invaders forcibly stole more than 70 young men and women for slave labor in Germany. The village was in 318 houses. During the retreat the Germans had burned more than 160 yards. Retreating from the village, the Germans burst into the house and brutally shot people. German monsters killed women and children". The act was signed by Baranowski, Sidoruk, Butt, Shabelsky, Krishtalik and Gorbatyuk.
The USSR established diplomatic relations with the "Fighting Denmark" - body Resistance force of Denmark.
In 1945:
Troops of the 1st Ukrainian front broke from the South to the streets of Berlin and came to the river Elbe Northwest of Dresden.
One of the first crossed the spree on the outskirts of Berlin the commander of the machine gun detachment of the 112th guards rifle regiment Ivan Aleksandrovich Grishin. His company has occupied a foothold in the West Bank and contributed to the successful crossing of other units. For the feat was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Troops of the 2nd Ukrainian front liberated in Czechoslovakia the town of Mikulov and come to Brno.
On the night of April 23, by sentence of a National Tribunal, the party shot the German Resistance movement rüdiger Schleicher, member of the July 1944 conspiracy against Hitler.
