06/22/09

1944 – Nineteen-Forty-Four

 22 January – Operation Shingle, Allied landings at Anzio, begins

 27 January – Russians announce the lift of the blockade on Leningrad

 31 January – Start of invasion of the Marshall Islands

 15 February – Monte Casino is bombed

 18 February – Allied troops attack Monte Casino

 1 March – Rommel takes command of the Atlantic Wall

 20 March – Germans complete their occupation of Hungary

 27 March – Germans occupy Romania

 15 April – USAAF bombs the Ploesti oilfields

 17 April – Japanese launch last big offensive against China

 19 May – Allied prisoners escape from Sagan, Poland. Only 3 out of 50 get back to England. The rest are executed by the Gestapo at Gorlitz

 3 June – French Committee of National Liberation proclaims itself the provisional government of the Republic in France

 4 June – Operation Overlord is postponed

 4 June – U.S. 9^th Army capture Rome

 6 June – Operation Overload commences (D-Day)

 20 June – Battle of the Philippine Sea

 20 July – In Rastenburg, Prussia, a bombing attempt fails to kill Hitler

 15 August – Allied troops storm the southern shores of France in Operation Dragoon

 25 August – Paris is liberated

 4 September – The Finns cease fire on all fronts

 17 September – Operation Market-Garden launched

 2 October – Warsaw uprising crushed

 9 October – Churchill and Eden start conference with Stalin in Moscow

 23 – 26 October – Battle for Leyte Gulf

 7 November – Roosevelt is re-elected for a fourth term as President of the U.S.

 16 December – Battle of the Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge)