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1944: A SUMMARY OF THE YEAR.
Jan 8: Kirovograd,USSR retaken by Soviets.
Jan 11: First deep penetration raid into Germany with Mustang escorts.
Jan 17: SHAEF established in London.
Jan 20: First battle of Cassino,Italy.
Jan 22: Anzio landings begin.
Jan 27: Official end of the siege of Leningrad.
Jan 29: Russia - two German corps surrounded in Cherkassy pocket.
Feb 7: `Battle for the Factory` ,Anzio.
Feb 15: Bombing of Monastery at Cassino.
Feb 20: Air war over Germany - `Big Week` begins.
Mar 15: Bombing of Cassino town.
Mar 24: Soviet troops cross River Dniester.
Mar 24: General Whingate killed in air crash in Burma.
Apr 10: Fall of Odessa to Russians.
May 9: German surrender at Sevastopol.
May 9: RAF raids on Luftwaffe bases in France.
May 12: Air raids on synthetic oil plants in Germany.
May 23: Beginning of final Anzio breakout.
Jun 4: Allies enter Rome.
Jun 6: D-Day - Operation Overlord, Allied landings in Normandy.
Jun 7: Bayeux liberated by the Allies.
Jun 13: Battle of Villers-Bocage.Germans force allied retreat.
Jun 14: 1st US army begins Cotentin offensive.
Jun 19: Battle of the Philippine Sea.
Jun 20: Italy - Allies break through Albert Line.
Jun 22: Burma - Siege of Imphal is lifted.
Jun 23: Operation Bagration -Soviet offensive against Army Group
Centre is launched.
Jun 29: Cherbourg falls.
Jul 3: Minsk is captured by Soviet troops.
Jul 7: Caen is captured by the Allies.
Jul 17: Rommel is wounded in Normandy by a fighter-bomber.
Jul 18: St.Lo liberated by U.S forces.
Jul 18: Normandy - Operation Goodwood begins.
Jul 20: East Prussia - Bomb plot on Hitler`s life fails.
Aug 1: Burma retaken from Japanese.
Aug 1: Warsaw uprising.
Aug 8: German counter offesnive in Warsaw.
Aug 15: American and French troops begin landings at St.Tropez.
Aug 20: Red Army opens offesnive against German Army Group South
Ukraine.
Aug 21: France - Germans surrounded as `Falaise Gap` is closed.
Aug 23: Free French forces reach Marseille.
Aug 25: Paris is entered by the Allies.
Aug 29: Patton`s Third Army takes Reims in Eastern France.
Aug 30: De Gaulle establishes provisional government in France.
Sep 1: Eisenhower made Supreme Commander of Allied forces.Montgomery
is promoted to Field Marshal.
Sep 3: Brussels is liberated.
Sep 4: Germans evacuate Antwerp.
Sep 5: US forces cross the Meuse.
Sep 10: US troops cross the German border.
Sep 12: Italy - 8th army launches main offensive.
Sep 16: Renewed Soviet offensives against Tallinn and Riga on the
Baltic coast.
Sep 17: `Operation Market Garden` - allied airborn assault to sieze
Arnhem bridges.
Sep 27: Third US army attacks Metz.
Oct 1: First army (US) renew offensive against Germans.
Oct 2: Polish home army surrenders in Warsaw and receive good treatment
as POW`s.
Oct 6: Russians renew offensive in Hungary.
Oct 19: Belgrade falls to Russians.
Oct 20: General MacArthur lands at Leyte.
Oct 21: Fall of Aachen.
Oct 23: American submarines sink 2 heavy Japanese cruisers at Leyte.
Oct 25: End of Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Nov 2: Allies capture Zeebrugge.
Nov 22: Germans surrender Metz.
Dec 3: Third US army reaches the Saar,Germany.
Dec 16: Start of German counter offesnive in the Ardennes - the `Battle
of the Bulge`
Dec 26: Bastogne relieved by US.
Dec 29: 8th Army offensive in Italy is halted.