7 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)