Today 25 April 2015. On this day in military history:
In 1942:
Bombers of the axis countries did not stop massive raids on Malta, seeking to prevent British troops to destroy the system of supply of German and Italian troops in North Africa.
In 1943:
Died, Colonel-General Wehrmacht Kurt von Bids-Equord, the commander of land forces, the enemy of Nazism, was close with participants in anti-Hitler conspiracy, but the harassment has not suffered.
In 1944:
On the night of April 25, our long-range aviation bombed a congestion of echelons of the enemy the railway stations of Rezekne and Gulbene.
For April 25, our troops disabled and destroyed 52 German tanks. In air battles or by anti-aircraft fire shot down 79 enemy planes and, in addition, 33 aircraft destroyed on the airfields.
In 1945:
Troops of the 3rd Belorussian front captured the city and fortress of Pillau on the Baltic sea.
Troops of the 1st Belorussian front took three suburbs of Berlin and the urban districts of Treptow and Britz and United with the troops of the 1st Ukrainian front, which occupied the urban areas of Lichterfelde and Zehlendorf. West Berlin, released from captivity, the former French Prime Minister Herriot of.
In the midst of the battle for Berlin the locomotive engineer railway troops Sergeant Andrew Foresters brought to the station Lichtenberg the first Soviet train with weapons, ammunition and food.
In the battle for the suburbs of Berlin 17-letic Junior Sergeant Ivan Filippovich Kuznetsov direct-fire guns destroyed 2 anti-aircraft guns, three machine guns and a house where German machine gunners. Kuznetsov became the youngest full Cavaliers of the order of Glory.
Ended the East-Prussian operation, the troops of the 2nd and 3rd Belarusian and 1st Baltic fronts, with the aim of crushing the enemy groups in East Prussia and Northern Poland. The main forces of the enemy were dissected into 3 separate groups, and only the 2nd German army was able to move into Eastern Pomerania. Soviet troops killed 25 and defeated the 12 divisions of the enemy, occupied East Prussia, and liberated a part of Northern Poland.
Allied troops liberated prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp near the Austrian city of Linz.
In German-occupied Northern Italy began a General strike and armed uprising. Guerrillas and insurgents in bloody battles to the end of the month, released Sotherton Northern and Central Italy before the arrival of the allied forces.
