Today 24 April 2015. On this day in the war years:
In 1941:
Bulgaria entered the war on the side of Nazi Germany. Bulgarian troops in Thrace and Macedonia.
In 1942:
Participant of a column of steam locomotives behalf of the State Committee of defense of the USSR the engineer A. Filimonov has had great success in driving heavy trains food. He took the end station with the composition of food weighing 3 015 tons, and brought him in the distance on the stops ahead of schedule. Success comrade. Filimonov largely contributed to the LLC Manager. Bandyk, ensuring the rapid formation of this heavy freight trains and pass it to Leningrad without delays at intermediate stations.
In 1943:
This week (18-24 April) in air battles and on the airfields of the enemy destroyed 381 German plane. Our loss was 134 aircraft.
On April 24, the parts of our aircraft in various parts of the front damaged or destroyed at least 30 German trucks with troops and cargo, blow up the munitions depot, a train, sunk two torpedo boats and up to 40 boats of the enemy.
In 1944:
Rate divided Western front on the second and 3rd Belorussian fronts.
On the night of April 24 our long-range aviation bombed the concentration of German military trains at a railway junction lions.
The Germans flooded with blood the streets of Feodosiya. Especially the Germans dealt harshly with the Soviet intelligentsia, which refused to work for the occupiers. German executioners hanged and shot many specialists. Brutally tortured a famous surgeon Dashevsky, doctors Baranov and Wasserman. Old therapist Fidelia the Nazis hanged on the main street.
In 1945:
Troops of the 1st Belorussian front to the North-West of Berlin, took possession of the towns of Kremmen, Flatow, South-East of Berlin crossed the river Dahme and took a few suburbs. At the same time our troops fought street battles in the Northern and Eastern parts of Berlin. Troops of the 1st Ukrainian front occupied the southern part of Berlin 4 urban district, Silesian station and met with the advance units of the 1st Belorussian front.
The allies on the Western front crossed the Danube at Dillingen. In the hands of the allies is a section of the German-Swiss border with a length of 64 kilometers.
The commander of a mechanized infantry battalion of the 23rd guards motorized rifle brigade, guards major Anton Rebrov Davydenko has distinguished himself in the battle for Berlin. Crossed the Teltow canal, entrenched and repulsed several violent counter-attacks. For this feat was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
In the suburbs of Berlin destroyed a large group of Faustino corporal Arkady V. Sudarev. The commander of the 70th mechanized brigade was seriously wounded but continued to fight. Died of wounds on 26 April 1945. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union awarded posthumously.
Romania adopted a law giving the court of war criminals.
The newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" reported: In Vladimir commissioned first tractor plant, the construction of which started in 1943, and released the first 500 tractors.
