Chronology of World War II (1995-1999)

Chronology of World War II

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1995

January 9

Philippines issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of American landings in Lingayen Gulf. [343.241]
February 3

Philippines issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Manila. [343.241]
February 4

Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the Yalta Conference. [342.662]
February 13

Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden, Germany. [342.662]
February 19

Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the American Marines landing on Iwo Jima. [342.662]
February 21

Brazil issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the capture of Monte Castello, Italy. [306.916]

March 7

Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the American taking of Remagen Bridge. [342.662]
March 20

Canada issues four postage stamps depicting Canada's contribution to World War II in 1945. [340.83]
March 29

Slovenia issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [343.1031]
Slovenia issues two postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps. [343.1031]
March 30

Palau issues 18 postage stamps depicting Japanese ships sunk during Operation Desecrate in 1944. [343.36]
(month unknown)

Aruba issues a 25-florin coin marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [286.32]
The Netherlands issues a 50-guilders coin commemorating the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the country. [286.32]
April 1

Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Okinawa. [342.662]
April 7

Russia issues seven postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [343.644]
April 9

Philippines issues three postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of various battles in the Philippines. [343.241]
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April 13

Poland issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the Katyn Forest Massacre. [343.320]
April 20

Australia issues four postage stamps depicting famous Australians from World War II. [306.516]
April 21

Malta issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the war. [342.647]
April 25

Israel issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, and the liberation of concentration camps. [341.1007]
Israel issues a postage stamp in honor of the Jewish volunteers to the British Army in the war. [341.1007]
Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the meeting of American and Soviet troops at the Elbe River. [342.662]
April 27

Philippines issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Baguio. [343.241]
April 29

France issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the war. [340.1100]
(month unknown)

The Isle of Man issues a 5-pound coin celebrating the 50th anniversary of victory in Europe. [287.26]
The Isle of Man issues a 2-pound coin celebrating the 50th anniversary of VE Day and VJ Day. [287.26]
May 2

Great Britain issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [341.296]
Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the capture of Berlin by Russian troops. [342.662]
Viet Nam issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [282.897]
May 3

Algeria issues a 3d postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [306.307]
Greece issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps. [341.388]
Bulgaria issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [306.1024]
Netherlands issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [342.1006]
May

Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps. [342.662]
May 4

Belarus issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [306.667]
Denmark issues four postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the country. [340.721]
Kyrgystan issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [342.264]
May 5

The Federal Republic of Germany issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [341.119]
Italy issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of freedom. [341.1063]
Slovakia issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps. [343.1021]
May 8

Ascension Island issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [306.475]
Barbados issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [306.649]
Belize issues four postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [306.754]
The British Indian Ocean Territory issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [306.946]
Cayman Islands issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [340.121]
Cyprus issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps. [340.617]
The Falkland Islands issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [340.974]
Fiji issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [340.998]
France issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the war. [340.1100]
Gibraltar issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of VE Day. [341.262]
Grenada issues sixteen postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the war. [341.431]
Grenada Grenadines issues sixteen postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of VE Day. [341.462]
Isle of Man issues eight postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of VE Day. [341.356]
Liberia issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [342.363]
Marshall Islands issues four postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of VE Day. [342.662]
Mauritius issues three postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [342.703]
Monaco issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of concentration camps. [342.834]
Norway issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [342.1279]
St. Helena issues nine postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [343.698]
St. Kitts issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [343.705]
Saint Lucia issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [343.722]
St. Vincent issues sixteen postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of VE Day. [343.785]
St. Vincent issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the Yalta Conference. [343.786]
The Solomon Islands issues five postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [282.10]
Uzbekistan issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [282.780]
May 9

Guernsey issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of liberation from German occupation. [341.327]
Jersey issues nine postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of liberation from German occupation. [341.342]
Jersey issues four coins commemorating the 50th anniversary of liberation from German occupation. [288.13]
Kazakhstan issues three postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [342.125]
Macedonia issues a 2-denar postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [728.597]
Yugoslavia issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [282.1002]
Ukraine issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [282.696]
May 10

Algeria issues a 13d postage stamp marking VE Day at the end of World War II. [306.307]
May 11

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Cretien opens the Canadian memorial garden in Caen, France, in a medieval quarry on the grounds of Le Memorial museum. [3.3]
May 15

Luxembourg issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps. [728.563]
May 18

Dominica issues nine postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [340.761]
May 28

Philippines issues three postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps. [343.241]
May 31

Samoa issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [343.863]
June 6

Gibraltar issues four postage stamps depicting World War II warships. [341.262]
June 8

New Caledonia issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [342.1082]
June 19

Tristan da Cunha issues postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [282.537]
June 21

Greece issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [341.388]
Singapore issues four postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [343.1013]
(month unknown)

Gibraltar issues a 5-pound coin commemorating the 50th anniversary of VE Day. [289.24]
French president Jacques Chirac publicly appologizes for the role French officials played in the deportation of France's jews during the war. [436.43]
July 6

Ghana issues 16 postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [341.242]
Guyana issues 16 postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [341.558]
Maldives issues 16 postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [342.593]
Uganda issues 16 postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [282.684]
July 7

Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the Potsdam Conference. [342.662]
July 10

Sierra Leone issues sixteen postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [343.988]
July 16

French President Jacques Chirac make a speech, formally apologizing for French involvement in the deportation of Jews during the war. [635.70]
July 20

Togo issues postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [282.468]
Antigua & Barbuda issues 16 postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [306.383]
Nevis issues sixteen postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [342.1061]
July 21

Dominica issues seven postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [340.761]
July 30

Cuba issues five postage stamps depicting World War II combat planes. [340.583]
(month unknown)

Guernsey issues a four-coin gold set marking the 50th anniversary of liberation from German occupation at the end of the war. [290.21]
Israel issues three coins to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [290.23]
August 1

The Gambia issues seven postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of VJ Day. [341.47]
Tonga issues postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of victory in the Pacific. [282.499]
Tonga/Niuafo'ou issues postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of victory in the Pacific. [282.511]
August 6

Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. [342.662]
August 10

Australia issues four postage stamps depicting famous Australians from World War II. [306.516]
Australia issues three postage stamps marking the end of World War II. [306.516]
August 14

Turks and Caicos Islands issues eight postage stamps to mark the 50th anniversary of V-E Day in Europe. [282.648]
August 15

Montserrat issues eight postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, depicting advances based on war research. [342.906]
August 19

Tuvalu issues four postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [282.661]
(month unknown)

The Hungarian Mint issues silver and bronze medals commemorating the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. [312.24]
September 1

Norfolk Island a issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of victory in the Pacific. [342.1251]
Vanautu issues postage stamps depicting planes of World War II operated by the New Hebrides, and one depicting the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri. [282.791]
September 2

The United States issues ten postage stamps marking World War II in 1945. [306.82]
Marshall Islands issues four postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of V-J Day. [342.662]
Micronesia issues four postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of liberation from Japan. [342.783]
September 3

The People's Republic of China issues eight postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [340.334]
September 30

Armenia issues ten postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [306.459]
October 12

Christmas Island issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [340.359]
October 18

Palau issues 18 postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [343.37]
October 24

The Republic of China issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [340.271]
(month unknown)

Isle of Man issues gold, silver, and copper-nickel coins depicting aircraft of World War II. [313.33]
November 13

Barbuda issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [306.660]
November 16

Guernsey/Alderney issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of liberation and return to the island. [341.331]
(month unknown)

Israel issues three commemorative coins marking the 50th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. [314.32]
December 15

Philippines issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of various events at the end of the war in the Philippines. [343.242]
December 27

Philippines issues thirty postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [343.242]

1996

January 24

Nicaragua issues nine postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the war. [342.1166]
January 29

Gabon issues eight postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the war. [341.16]
(month unknown)

The Solomon Islands issues a four-coin set of coins to commemorate VJ-Day. The coins depict bomber Enola Gay, signing of Japanese surrender, Iwo Jima flag raising, and US landings on Okinawa. [489.39]
April 1

Japan issues a 80-yen postage stamp commemorating the peace treaty signing in San Francisco in 1951. [728.73]
Japan issues a 80-yen postage stamp marking the return of Okinawa in 1972. [728.73]
June 8

Gibraltar issues four postage stamps depicting World War II warships. [341.262]
August

A military trial in Italy finds Erich Priebke guilty of the murder of 335 Italian civilians on March 24, 1944, in retaliation for the deaths of 32 German soldiers by the Italian resistance movement. Due to Italy's 30-year statute of limitations on murder, the murder conviction cannot be followed by a sentence. [683.A4]
September 13

Nauru issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [728.1145]
November

US oil tanker Montbello is discovered off Cambria, 170 miles south of San Francisco, California. Most of the cargo of 4.1 million gallons of crude oil is intact. The ship had been sunk by Japanese submarine torpedo in December 1941. [429.30]
December 3

The US Justice Department adds sixteen Japanese men to the list of persons barred from ever entering the US, due to the suspicion of their having medically experimented on prisoners or operating forced-sex camps during World War II. [430.A13]
December 5

The A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan, is named a World Heritage site. The dome and main structure of the Hiroshima Promotion Hall survived the atomic bomb blast of 1945. [431.A10]
December 13

In Bonn, Germany, the Swiss National Bank publicly acknowledges that it had profited from wartime dealings in gold bullion with the German central bank, but that there is no evidence that the gold was stolen from Holocaust victims, and no gold in Swiss possession bears German stamps. Total value of wartime gold transactions was 1.2 million Swiss francs, with profit of about 20 million francs. [434.3]
December

The Finance Minister of the Netherlands government decides to open an investigation into the whereabouts of 75 metric tons of its gold reserves that were taken by Germany in the war, and not returned. 70 tons were allocated and returned to the Netherlands after the war from gold recovered by the Allies. [594.A8]
December 20

Swedish Riksbank says it will investigate assertions by the World Jewish Congress that looted Nazi gold from Holocaust victims had been deposited in Swedish banks. [279.4]
German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and Czech Foreign Minister Josef Zieleniec meet in Prague, and initial a document in which German appologizes for Adolf Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the Czech Republic expresses regret for the postwar expulsion of Germans from the Sudetenland. [433.A8] [435.4]

1997

January 21

In Prague, Czech Republic, Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sign a document acknowledging wrongs each nation committed against each other bewteen 1938 and 1946. [593.A3]
(month unknown)

The National Bank of Liberia releases a set of twelve $1 copper-nickel coins and twelve $10 0.999 fine silver coins to commemorate campaigns and battles of World War II. [547.27]
May 27

Netherlands isues two 80-cent postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan for European reconstruction. [728.1184]
June 9

Gibraltar issues four postage stamps depicting World War II warships. [341.262]
September

In Belgium, the crash site of Halifax Bomber LW682 is excavated. The aircraft is found 20 feet under the marshy bog, with remains of three missing airmen in the wreckage. [4.12]
A memorial in Tavullia, near Rimini, Italy, is dedicated to the memory of Canadians who drove German forces out, restoring Italian freedom. [11.20]
October 20

In Ijzendijke, Netherlands, a monument is erected to the lives lost in an explosion at a British-Canadian armored camp on October 20, 1944. [569.66]

1998

February 27

Greece issues a postage stamp depicting signing the German treaty turning the Dodeconese Islands over to English and Greek military, May 8, 1945. [341.389]
May 19

The US aircraft Yorktown is located by searchers, three miles below the ocean surface, where she sank on June 7, 1942. [68.98]
(month unknown)

American President Bill Clinton signs into law the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. (Over a six-year period, several million pages of intelligence material from World War II are released to the public domain.) [461.2]
July 15

Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp depicting the start of World War II, in a series on the 20th century. [728.794]
November 16

Marshall Islands issues seven postage stamps depicting World War II scenes. [728.795]
December 1

Marshall Islands issues three postage stamps depicting World War II warships: Graf Spee, Yamato, and Bismarck. [342.666]

1999

February 18

The United States issues a 33-cent postage stamp depicting World War II, as part of its series on memories of the 1940s. [706.94]
(month unknown)

In Winnipeg, Canada, a 60-foot wide mural on the west wall of St. James Branch Legion building is dedicated, depicting the beach landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944. [95.51]
September 10

Chad issues a postage stamp depicting World War II, as part of a series on the Millennium. [340.181]
October 21

Poland issues a postage stamp depicting a memorial to heroes of World War II. [751.371]
October 25

Netherlands issues an 80-cent postage stamp marking the liberation of 1945, part of millennium highlights of the 20th century. [728.1185]
December 7

St. Vincent issues a postage stamp depicting the 1939 start of World War II, in a series on the 20th century. [751.895]
December 31

Dominica issues six postage stamps as part of a Millennium series, depicting events of World War II: Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, D-Day invasion, Yalta Conference, Germany surrenders, Russians raise flag over Reichstag building. [707.833]

End of 1995-1999. Next: 2000.

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