1977 Event W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu 1964 Event Belgian para's liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville 1948 Event Israeli forces liberate Meron and Gush-Halev 1945 Event British liberate Hong Kong from Japan 1945 Event British and Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen 1945 Event Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands 1945 Event Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum 1945 Event U.S. soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald" 1945 Event Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Czechoslovakia 1945 Event U.S. troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany 1944 Event Canadian and British troops liberate Dinteloord 1944 Event Scottish Highlanders liberate Waalwijk 1944 Event Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg 1944 Event Allied forces liberate Luxembourg 1944 Event Allies liberate Brussels 1944 Event Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France 1944 Event French troops liberate Lyon 1944 Event French troops liberate Bordeaux 1944 Event Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek 1944 Event Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested 1944 Event Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis 1943 Event Russian troops liberate Smolensk 1943 Event U.S. forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily 1943 Event Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
