- Feb 1 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
- Feb 2 Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp
- Feb 3 Almost 1,000 Flying Fortresses drop 3,000 tons of bombs on Berlin
- Feb 3 Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released
Yalta Conference
Feb 3 WWII: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Yalta, Crimea, Soviet Union for the "Big Three" Yalta Conference
Conference of Interest
Feb 4 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of World War II
- Feb 5 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
'I Shall Return'
Feb 5 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manila in the Philippines after a month long battle, ending three years of Japanese military occupation
- Feb 6 WWII: Russian Red Army crosses the Oder River between Poland and Germany
- Feb 6 WWII: US 8th Air Force bombs oil facilities in Magdeburg and Chemnitz, Germany
MacArthur's Manila Return
Feb 7 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila
- Feb 7 Harry Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of US Customs Court
- Feb 7 London, Washington and Moscow discuss final phase of World War II
- Feb 7 US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing the Sauer river near Echternach, Luxembourg, and breach the Siegfried Line
- Feb 8 Allied air attack on Goch, Kleef, Kalkar and Reichswald
Brown to Coach Cleveland
Feb 8 Paul Brown agrees to coach the new American football expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach
- Feb 9 -Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen
- Feb 9 The Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway
- Feb 9 WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire
- Feb 10 "Rum and Coca-Cola" by the Andrews Sisters hits #1
- Feb 11 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA
Conference of Interest
Feb 11 Declaration of Liberated Europe signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin after the Yalta Conference
- Feb 12 SF selected for site of UN Conference
- Feb 12 Tornado strikes Montgomery, Alabama, with estimated Fujita scale of F3 intensity, kills 26, destroys about 100 houses, two warehouses, and a freight train;
- Feb 12 Tornado strikes near York and Livingston, Alabama, with estimated Fujita scale of F4 intensity, kills 11 people
Bombing of Dresden
Feb 13 Allied planes begin bombing the German city of Dresden, resulting in a devastating firestorm that destroys the city and kills over 22,000 people
- Feb 13 Gerbrandy Dutch government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy
- Feb 13 Soviet forces capture Budapest after a 49-day battle with Nazi Germany that killed 159,000 people
- Feb 14 Peru, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador joins UN
- Feb 14 Second day of the bombing of Dresden by Allied air forces
- Feb 14 World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
- Feb 14 World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.
- Feb 16 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
- Feb 16 Venezuela declares war on Nazi Germany
- Feb 16 WWII: US Navy 5th Fleet aircraft carriers and planes begin two-day bombardment of airfields and aircraft plants near Tokyo, Japan; over 500 hundred Japanese aircraft are destroyed
- Feb 19 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma
- Feb 19 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Feb 19 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines
- Feb 21 Battle of Monte Castello (Italy): Allied forces, including the first land battle of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, defeat Germans after three months of fierce fighting in the foothills of the Apennine Mountains
- Feb 21 Dutch Archbishop of Utrecht Johannes de Jong calls to the Allies for help with war casualties following the Nazi occupation of Netherlands
- Feb 21 Operation Veritable: British Army captures Goch from Germany, forcing German retreat away from the Rhineland
- Feb 21 WWII: US Army 10th Armored Division overthrows Germany's Orscholz line of defense
- Feb 22 Arab League forms (Cairo)
- Feb 22 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
- Feb 22 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
- Feb 23 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
- Feb 23 Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
- Feb 23 Operation Grenade: US Lieutenant General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr
- Feb 23 US Marines raise the flag of the United States on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Pulitzer Prize winning photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture
- Feb 24 Egypt & Syria declare war on nazi-Germany
- Feb 24 Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree
- Feb 24 Manila freed from Japanese
- Feb 25 WWII: Turkey declares war on Germany
- Feb 26 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force
- Feb 27 Battle of US 94 Infantry
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Feb 28 Film adaptation of Betty Smith's novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" premieres; director Elia Kazan's first feature film stars Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner
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