33 events found for 1944
World War II: The British Special Boat Service executed a successful raid to destroy an Axis radio station on the Greek
Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into Auvergne, France, becoming a liaison between the Special Oper
World War II: The Japanese Take Ichi convoy arrived at Halmahera in the Dutch East Indies after losing many ships and th
The Soviet Union forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country
The Wehrmacht and their collaborationist allies launched Operation Rösselsprung, a failed attempt to assassinate the Yug
World War II: A United States Navy task group captured German submarine U-505 (pictured)
World War II: Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing
Second World War: At the Battle of Villers-Bocage, German tank commander Michael Wittmann destroyed around 30 Allied veh
Second World War: The British Army abandoned its attempt to capture the German-occupied city of Caen
World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began the first air raid of its strategic bombing campaign against the J
The Holocaust: After a closely supervised visit to Theresienstadt Ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Red Cross of
Second World War: Canadian troops defeated the last German counterattacks against Carpiquet, Normandy, France.
Laden with munitions for World War II, two ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, killing…
World War II: In opposition to the government-in-exile based in London, the Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National…
World War II: Allied forces attacked German fortifications at Saint-Malo, France, beginning the Battle of Saint-Malo…
IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I…
The United States Forest Service authorized the use of Smokey Bear (pictured) as its mascot to replace Bambi.
World War II: In Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, the Waffen-SS and the Brigate Nere murdered about 560 local villagers…