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The 1940's 1944
A Brief History of the events that shaped 1944.
January February March April
May June July August
September October November December

January
6th Soviet troops advance into Poland.
17th First attack toward Cassino, Italy.
22nd Allies land at Anzio.
27th Leningrad relieved after a 900-day siege.
 


February
15th Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino.
16th Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead.
 


March
4th Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front; First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies.
15th Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins.
18th British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg.
 


April
8th Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea.
 


May
9th Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol.
11th Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome.
12th Germans surrender in the Crimea.
15th Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line.
25th Germans retreat from Anzio.
 


June
5th Allies enter Rome.
6th The day of the D-Day Landings
9th Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins.
10th Nazis liquidate the town of Oradour-sur-Glane in France.
13th First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain.
22nd Operation Bagration begins (the Soviet summer offensive).
27th U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg.
 


July
3rd 'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk.
9th British and Canadian troops capture Caen.
18th U.S. troops reach St. Lô.
20th German assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
24th Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek.
25th Operation Cobra (U.S. troops break out west of St. Lô).
28th Soviet troops take Brest-Litovsk. U.S. troops take Coutances.
 


August
1st Polish Home Army uprising against Nazis in Warsaw begins; U.S. troops reach Avranches.
4th Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.
7th Germans begin a major counter-attack toward Avranches.
15th Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France).
19th Resistance uprising in Paris.
19th Soviet offensive in the Balkans begins with an attack on Romania.
20th Allies encircle Germans in the Falaise Pocket.
25th The liberation of Paris by Allied forces.
29th Slovak uprising begins.
31st Soviet troops take Bucharest.
 


September
1st Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp and Brussels liberated by Allies.
4th Finland and the Soviet Union agree to a cease-fire.
13th U.S. troops reach the Siegfried Line.
17th Operation Market Garden begins (Allied airborne assault on Holland).
26th Soviet troops occupy Estonia.
 


October
2nd Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans.
10th Soviet troops capture Riga.
14th Allies liberate Athens.
14th Rommel commits suicide.
21st Massive German surrender at Aachen.
30th Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
 


November
20th French troops drive through the 'Beffort Gap' to reach the Rhine.
24th French capture Strasbourg.
 


December
16th Battle of the Bulge starts in the Ardennes.
17th Waffen SS murder 81 U.S. POWs at Malmedy.
26th Patton relieves Bastogne.
27th Soviet troops besiege Budapest.
 


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