1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1944 - Events. January 4 - The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. January 5 - Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk. January 14 - The Soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod. January 17 - British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River. January 17 - Meat Rationing ends in Australia. January 20 - The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 to ...

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For more 1944 births see Category:1944 births 1944 - January. January 2 - Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician January 6 - Bonnie Franklin, American actress January 6 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine January 9 - Jimmy Page, English guitarist (Led Zeppelin) January 12 - Joe Frazier, American boxer January 17 - Françoise Hardy, French singer January 18 - Paul Keating, ...

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The EAC had its seat in London at Lancaster House and started its work on January 14, 1944. William Strang was the British delegate, while on the American and Soviet side the respective ambassadors were the delegates,John G. Winant and Feodor T Gousev. The American military advisor was Cornelius Wickersham. George F. Kennan was a member of the American delegation in 1944. At the Teheran Conference it was decided to hand over a large portion of German territory to Poland with the Oder-Neisse line as the eastern border of post-war Germa ...

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European Advisory Commission, European Advisory Commission - 1944, European Advisory Commission - 1945, European Advisory Commission - Aftermath

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Stephen Potter was in the screen of the fast carriers when they made the first strike against Truk on 17 and 18 February 1944. Intrepid (CV-11) was damaged on the 17th by an aircraft torpedo, and the DD escorted the carrier back to the Marshalls. Stephen Potter departed there on 27 February, called at Pearl Harbor, and sailed to the west coast of the United States. She arrived on 13 March and, five days later, began the voyage ba ...

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USS Stephen Potter DD-538, USS Stephen Potter DD-538 - 1944, USS Stephen Potter DD-538 - 1945, USS Stephen Potter DD-538 - 1951 – 1958

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Hale to Pearl Harbor 8 December to train the next assault and sailed 21 December for the Ellice Islands. She departed 21 January 1944 for the invasion of the Marshalls, pounding Maloelap and Wotje atolls 29 January to 22 February, before and after the landings. Underway from Kwajalein 11 March, she sailed to Guadalcanal to perform anti-submarine patrol during the loading operations, and departed 27 March escorting reinfo ...

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USS Hale DD-642, USS Hale DD-642 - 1944, USS Hale DD-642 - 1945, USS Hale DD-642 - 1951 – 1960, USS Hale DD-642 - ARC Antioquia DD-01

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She sank a large tanker in a surface attack on New Year's Day 1944, sent a fishing trawler to the bottom after a surface gunfire action on 30 January, and left another badly damaged after a similar action the next day. The submarine refitted at Pearl Harbor once more between 11 February 1944 and 6 March, then sailed for her eighth war patrol, off Turk [sic; Truk] in the Caroline Islands. Prevented from launching attacks through most of this patrol because of her assignment as lifeguard for carrier air strikes on targets in the Carolin ...

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USS Finback SS-230, USS Finback SS-230 - 1942, USS Finback SS-230 - 1943, USS Finback SS-230 - 1944, USS Finback SS-230 - 1945, USS Finback SS-230 - Post War

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The carrier arrived at Pearl Harbor on 7 January, and after a brief period of training, sailed from Pearl Harbor on 19 January with light carriers, Langley and Princeton, to support the drive in the Marshalls. Her aircraft struck Wotje and Taroa for three days, from 29 January to 31 January, and then pounded Engebi, the main island at Eniwetok, the 3rd to the 6th and from the 10th to the 12th of February. Her planes delivered final blows to Japanese defenses on the 16th, the day before the landings, and provided close air support ...

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USS Saratoga CV-3, USS Saratoga CV-3 - 1928 – 1940, USS Saratoga CV-3 - 1941, USS Saratoga CV-3 - 1942, USS Saratoga CV-3 - 1943, USS Saratoga CV-3 - 1944, USS Saratoga CV-3 - 1945, USS Saratoga CV-3 - Decommissioning, USS Saratoga CV-3 - Saratoga in culture

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Timeline of World War II - January. 4: Battle of Monte Cassino begins. 15: 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division recreated, marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army. 18: Siege of Leningrad ends. 22: Allied landings at Anzio, Italy. 31: Allied invasion of the Marshall Islands. Timeline of World War II - February. 8: The plan for the invasion of France, Operation Overlord, is confirmed. 14: SHAEF headquarters established in Britain by General Eisenhower.

1944 - World War II. January 4 - The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. January 5 - Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk. January 14 - The Soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod. January 17 - British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River. January 17 - Meat Rationing ends in Australia. January 20 - The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin. The U.S. Army 36th Infantry Division, in Italy, attempts to cross the Rapido R ...

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USS Stephen Potter (DD-538), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Ensign Stephen Potter (1896–1918), a naval aviator during World War I. Stephen Potter (DD-538) was laid down on 27 October 1942 by the Bethlehem Steel Co., San Francisco, Calif.; launched on 28 April 1943; sponsored by Sally and Marian Potter, nieces of Ensign Potter; and commissi ...

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USS Stephen Potter DD-538 - 1944 USS Stephen Potter DD-538 - 1945 USS Stephen Potter DD-538 - 1951 – 1958

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Wound Badge (Das Verwundetenabzeichen) is a German military award for wounded or frost-bitten soldiers of Wehrmacht, SS and the auxiliary service organisations (after March 1943 due to the increasing number of allied bombings — also for civilians). First instituted during the first world war it existed in three versions: black for one or two times wounded by hostile action or air raid, or frost-bite in the line of duty, silver for three or four times wounded, loss of a hand, foot or eye via hostile action (also partial loss o ...

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Wound Badge - Wound Badge of 20 July 1944
Wound Badge - Notes

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List of shipwrecks in 1944 - 10. U-608 (Germany): Sunk in the Bay of Biscay by a B-24 Liberator and the Royal Navy sloop Wren. List of shipwrecks in 1944 - 11. U-385 (Germany): Sunk in the Bay of Biscay by a Shorts Sunderland and the Royal Navy sloop Starling. List of shipwrecks in 1944 - 12. U-198 (Germany): Sunk in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles by the Royal Navy frigate Findhorn and ...

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List of shipwrecks in 1944 - 8. U-762 (Germany): Sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by Royal Navy sloops Woodpecker, and Wild Goose. List of shipwrecks in 1944 - 9. U-238 (Germany): Sunk in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland by Royal Navy sloops Magpie, Starling, and Kite. U-734 (Germany): Sunk in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland by Royal Nav ...

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List of shipwrecks in 1944 - 15. U-653 (Germany): Sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by a Fairey Swordfish of the Royal Navy escort carrier Vindex and sloops Starling and Wild Goose. List of shipwrecks in 1944 - 29. U-961 (Germany): Sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south of Iceland by Royal Navy sloop Starling. ...

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List of shipwrecks in 1944 - 2. U-394 (Germany): Sunk in the Norwegian Sea by a Fairey Swordfish from the Royal Navy escort carrier Vindex, destroyers Keppel and Whitehall and sloops Mermaid and Peacock. List of shipwrecks in 1944 - 10. U-19 (Germany): Scuttled near Turkey in the Black Sea U-20 (Germany): Scuttled near Turkey in the Black Sea U-23 ...

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1 special election held due to resignation Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R-MA) to go on active duty in the United States Army 2 special election held due to death of W. Warren Barbour (R-NJ) 3 special election held due to death of Charles L. McNary (R-OR) ...

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U.S. Senate election 1944, U.S. Senate election 1944 - Senate contests in 1944, U.S. Senate election 1944 - Senate composition before and after elections

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U.S. presidential election 1944 - Democratic Party nomination. Roosevelt was a popular, war-time incumbent and faced little opposition. With Roosevelt's health deteriorating, many in the Democratic party saw incumbent vice president Henry Wallace as being too far to the left to be so close to the presidency, so Roosevelt agreed to replace him on the ticket with Missouri Senator Harry Truman. U.S. presidential election 1944 - Republican Party nomination. Former prosecutor and New York governor Thomas E. Dewe ...

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U.S. presidential election 1944, U.S. presidential election 1944 - Nominations, U.S. presidential election 1944 - Democratic Party nomination, U.S. presidential election 1944 - Republican Party nomination, U.S. presidential election 1944 - General election, U.S. presidential election 1944 - Campaign, U.S. presidential election 1944 - Results

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1944 in rail transport - January events. January 16 - A train crashes in Torro Tunnel in Leon Province, Spain. More than 500 are killed. 1944 in rail transport - March events. March 3 - Balvano, Italy: A double-headed mixed train stalls in a tunnel. Five people survive, 521 are killed by carbon monoxide poisoning. One Hundred ninety-three of the dead who carried no identification, most of them Black Marketeer ...

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1944 in rail transport, 1944 in rail transport - Events, 1944 in rail transport - January events, 1944 in rail transport - March events, 1944 in rail transport - July events, 1944 in rail transport - October events, 1944 in rail transport - Unknown date events, 1944 in rail transport - Births, 1944 in rail transport - June births, 1944 in rail transport - Deaths, 1944 in rail transport - January deaths, 1944 in rail transport - June deaths, 1944 in rail transport - Unknown date deaths

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Canada declared war on Germany on September 10, 1939, and sent one division to Europe, which had no chance for combat before France was completely overrun by Germany. In the election of 1940, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King pledged to limit Canada's involvement in the war, and especially promised not to impose conscription. This promise helped Mackenzie King's Liberals win the election. Most Canadians preferred King's pledge, ...

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Conscription Crisis of 1944, Conscription Crisis of 1944 - Background, Conscription Crisis of 1944 - The Plebiscite of 1942, Conscription Crisis of 1944 - Introduction of Conscription, Conscription Crisis of 1944 - Sources

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