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In the Ordinance of 9 August 1944, the French Provisional Government restored the Republic and the rule of law in metropolitan France and nullified the laws of the Vichy regime. The Preston Sturges-directed satirical comedy-drama film Hail the Conquering Hero starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines and William Demarest was released.
A failed counterattack by German forces in response to Allied advances on 7 August left 50,000 soldiers of the German 7th Army trapped in the Falaise pocket by 19 August. The Allies launched a second invasion from the Mediterranean Sea of southern France (code-named Operation Dragoon ) on 15 August, and the Liberation of Paris followed on 25 ...
Operation Lüttich (7–13 August 1944) was the codename of the Nazi German counter-attack during the Battle of Normandy, which occurred near U.S. positions near Mortain, in northwestern France. Lüttich is the German name for the city of Liège, Belgium.
August 6 – USS Bennington is commissioned. August 7 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled computer, the electromechanical Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). August 9 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
5: US planes bomb Singapore, the first of 11 such raids between November 1944 and March 1945.: The aircraft carrier USS Lexington is heavily damaged by kamikaze attacks. 7: Election Day in the U.S.: Roosevelt wins an unprecedented, unrepeated fourth term as U.S. president. 9: General Patton's troops and tanks cross the Moselle River and ...
The King, Queen and Prince of Wales joined veterans to mark the Normandy landings' 80th anniversary.
Maritime incidents in August 1944 (121 P) Pages in category "August 1944" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.