How Private Jim Tanzer, Morale Corps, fits in a WW2 Timeline

World War II

September 9, 1939

WW2 timeline: German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland.

Nazi Germany invades Poland

WWII begins.

December 7, 1941

WW2 timeline: Captured Japanese photograph taken aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

America enters the war on the side of the Allies the next day.

February 28, 1944

Jim Tanzer enlists in the U.S. Army.

June 6, 1944

WW2 timeline: U.S. soldiers come onshore in Europe.
Image Courtesy of The National WWII Museum

D-Day

The Allies invade Nazi-controlled Europe.

December 16, 1944

WW2 timeline: U.S. soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge.
Image Courtesy of The Library of Congress

Battle of the Bulge Begins

Start of the German counter-attack known as The Battle of the Bulge.

December 19, 1944

Jim Tanzer arrives at Bastogne, having participated in a fighting retreat from the front line in Hosingen, Luxembourg.

December 25, 1944

Jim Tanzer’s Christmas show in Bastogne for wounded soldiers and civilians.

April 12, 1945

Jim escorts Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton through the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

May 8, 1945

Soldiers hold up the Stars and Stripes newspaper in celebration of the end of WWII in Europe May 8, 1945.

VE Day

Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies, ending the war in Europe.

May 17, 1945

Command Performance at Spa Wildungen Germany, for Marshall Conrad Koniev, Commanding General of the First Ukrainian Army Group and his general officers by the Jeep show squad of Jim, Mickey Rooney and Wes Novak.

July 19, 1945

Jim sells a Mickey Mouse watch to a Soviet Army soldier in Occupied Berlin.

August 15, 1945

Crowd of people, many waving, in Times Square on V-J Day at time of announcement of the Japanese surrender in 1945 / World-Telegram photo by Dick DeMarsico

Japan Surrenders

Ending WWII.

March 12, 1946

Jim Tanzer is separated from the U.S. Army, heads back to Huntington, WV.

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