WW2 1944

By prydejo

  • First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain. First aircraft to use a pulse jet for power

  • Marines invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands

  • Mariana Turkey Shoot occurs as U.S. Carrier-based fighters shoot down 220 Japanese planes, only 20 American planes are lost

  • Soviets capture Minsk in Normandy at the Battle of Hedgerows

  • U.S. troops reachSt. Lo, France. Located in Northwestern France

  • U.S. Marines invade Guam in the Marianas

  • Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempt to assassinate Hitler by blowing him up in his wolf den

  • Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek

  • U.S. Marines invade Titian

  • The Gestapo, Hitler's secret police, arrest Anne Frank and her family in Amsterdam, Holland

  • Liberation of Paris occurs

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    Allies liberate Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp, and Brussels

    France: Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville
    Belgium: Antwerp, Brussels

  • U.S. troops reach the Siegfried Line in Western Germany

  • U.S. air raids begin against Okinawa

  • Allies liberate Athens, Rommel commits suicide

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    Battle of of Leyte Gulf occurs, largest naval battle ever

  • Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

  • U.S. Navy begins to bombard the island of Iwo Jima

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    Battle of the Bulge occurs in the Ardennes

  • U.S. Air Force begins preparations for the atomic bombs

  • General Patton, Senior officer of the U.S. Army, relieves Bastogne

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