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

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

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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

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April
8th	Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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