The Charlotte News-- Maps of Western Front, Published in 1945

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Map of 1944 Allied Conquests, published January 1, 1945


Map of Battle of the Bulge in Belgium, Drive Northeast of Bastogne toward St. Vith,
published January 3, 1945


Map of Western and Eastern Fronts Squeeze of Germany, published January 24, 1945


Map of Western Front, Canadian 1st Army to Kleve, U.S. First and Third
between Aachen and Trier, published February 10, 1945


Map of Western Front, Canadian 1st Army beyond Kleve, U.S. to Pruem;
Eastern Front, Russians Take Liegnitz, Encircle Breslau, Take Elbing and Near Danzig,
published February 12, 1945


Map of Discussions at Yalta re Polish Territory to be Ceded Russia and to be Taken from Germany,
published February 14, 1945


Map of Western Front, Third Army to Trier, Crossing Saar south of Saarburg,
Seventh to Saarbrucken, Capture Half of Forbach, Canadian 1st to Calcar,
published February 22, 1945


Map of Western Front, U.S. First and Ninth to Cologne and Dusseldorf,
published February 26, 1945


Map of Western Front, First Captures Granterath, Roedingen, and Golzpheim;
Ninth to Muenchen Gladbach; Third to Bitburg, published February 27, 1945


Map of Western Front, First Army moves toward Cologne;
Ninth and Canadian First toward Duesseldorf, published March 1, 1945


Map of Western Front, Ninth Army reaches Rhine, shelling Duesseldorf; First Army shells Cologne, published March 2, 1945


Map of Western Front, Ninth Army joins Canadian First north of captured Krefeld;
Germans flee across Rhine, burn bridges between captured Neuss and Duesseldorf,
published March 3, 1945


Map of Western Front, First Army enters Cologne;
German blow bridges between captured Homberg and Duisburg
across Rhine, published March 5, 1945


Map of Western Front, First Army crosses Rhine south of Cologne and enter Bonn, published March 8, 1945


Map of Western Front, Allies aim for Ruhr Valley, published March 8, 1945


Map of Western Front, First Army crosses Rhine at Remagen, captures Bonn;
First and Third Armies close on Coblenz, control 150 miles of Rhine, published March 10, 1945


Map of Europe, Allies close on Berlin, across the Rhine in West and
across the Oder in East, published March 10, 1945


Map of Western Front, First and Third Armies trap 23,000 Germans west of Remagen, published March 12, 1945


Map of Western Front, First Army severs Ruhr-Franfurt Road, extending Rhine bridgehead to 13 miles,
fighting into Koenigswinter, within 3 miles of open lane to Ruhr, published March 16, 1945


Map of Western Front, Third Army enters Coblenz at Rhine and Moselle Rivers,
also pushes 40 miles southeast, crossing Nahe, cutting Saarland escape;
Seventh Army at outskirts of Saarbruecken; First Army takes Koenigswinter,
published March 17, 1945


Map of Western Front, Third Army moves to within four miles of Kaiserslautern
and within 20-plus miles of Seventh Army; Seventh penetrates Siegfried Line between
Saarbruecken and Zweibruecken; First extends bridgehead to 19.5 miles, published March 20, 1945


Detailed Map of Germany, published March 20, 1945


Map of Western Front, Third Army holds 100 miles of west bank of Rhine,
from Coblenz to Ludwigshafen, fighting in Mainz, published March 22, 1945


Map of Western Front, Third Army takes Mainz and Landau;
Seventh Army takes Pirmasens, published March 23, 1945


Map of Western Front, Ninth Army and British Second enter Wesel across Rhine;
Third Army crosses at Mainz, published March 24, 1945


Map of Europe, Americans, Canadians, and British across Rhine at three points;
Russians cross Oder at Kuestrin, published March 26, 1945


Map of Western Front, Third Army drives to Lohr, Fulda, and Wuerzburg;
British Second enters Dorsten; Seventh and First Armies advance, published March 28, 1945


Map of Western Front, British and Ninth Armies move beyond Muenster;
First and British encircle Ruhr; Third moves north from Frankfurt;
Seventh menaces Furth and Nuernberg, published March 29, 1945


Map of Europe, British and Ninth Armies drive toward Weser River; First Army hits Paderborn;
Third Army less than hundred miles from Czechoslovakia; Seventh Army moves toward Nuernberg;
Russians envelop Vienna, published March 30, 1945


Map of Europe, Possible joinder of Third Army with Russian First and Second Ukrainian Armies
to cut off Southern Germany, published March 31, 1945


Ruhr closed off; Third Army spearheads into Kassel, toward Leipzig, Czechoslovakia;
Seventh toward Nuernburg, published April 2, 1945


Ruhr cut by 1st and 9th, joined at Lippstadt; 3rd in Kassel, Fulda, near Eisenach;
2nd in Muenster and Rheine; 7th to Nuernburg, Stuttgart, Heilbronn;
Russians flank Vienna, move to Bratislava, published April 3, 1945


British and Canadians to Zuider Zee on rocket coast, and Emden; Ruhr being shrunk, published April 5, 1945


British close on Emden and Bremen; Americans move on Hannover and Eisleben, 90 miles from Berlin, published April 7, 1945


Canadians close on Emden, British on Bremen, across Aller, menacing Hamburg;
Americans across Elbe, move on Halle and Leipzig, 50+ miles from Berlin, published April 12, 1945


Third captures Hof, 7 mi. from Czech border; Seventh 8 mi. from Nuernburg;
Ninth 45 mi. from Berlin, published April 16, 1945


Third captures Plauen, 75 mi. from Russian lines, 6 mi. from Czech border; Seventh in Nuernburg;
Russians launch offensive along Oder, published April 17, 1945


Emden, Bremen, Hamburg besieged; Seventh on Elbe and Mulde; Leipzig captured;
Dessau, Chemnitz, Nuernburg under assault, push to join Third and Soviet Armies, published April 20, 1945


Third captures Asch, drive toward Pilsen and Prague;
Russians and Third 25 miles apart; Russians begin siege of Berlin,
enter suburbs, published April 21, 1945


Map of Berlin, Russians shelling center, reach Unter Den Linden and Anhalter Station, and in Neukoelln, control quarter of city, published April 23, 1945


Map of Berlin, Russians fighting on Mueller Strasse,
Landsberger and Frankfurter Strassen, in Templehof area, published April 24, 1945


Map of Eastern Europe, Russians and 1st Army link near Torgau,
75 mi. from Berlin; 3rd and 7th overrunning Czech.,
driving to Linz and Munich; Dresden outflanked
by Russians and Americans, published April 27, 1945


Map of Europe, Surrender, V-E Day, Ten Dates to Remember in European War, published May 8, 1945


Map of Europe, Germany's new borders, reverts to 1937 territory, published June 5, 1945

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