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- 1944: A SUMMARY OF THE YEAR.
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- 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.
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