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War Department General Orders 78, 12 September 1945: 15 to 30 October 1944 – The 100th Battalion was again committed to the attack. Going to the rescue of the "lost battalion", 141st Infantry Regiment, it fought without respite for 4 days against a fanatical enemy that was determined to keep the "lost battalion" isolated and force its surrender.
In September 1944, the group sent planes and pilots to England to provide cover for Operation Market-Garden, the allied airborne assault on the Netherlands and Germany. The P-38s of the group struck pillboxes and troops early in October to aid First Army's capture of Aachen , and afterward struck railroads, bridges, viaducts, and tunnels in ...
The Denver Fire Department provides fire protection and first responder emergency medical services to the city of Denver, Colorado. [3] The department is responsible for an area of 155 square miles (400 km 2) with a population estimated at 690,000. [3] The Denver Fire Department also provides fire protection to the citizens of Glendale ...
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Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine River), creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany ...
U-156 abandoned her rescue attempts, and was incorrectly reported sunk in the action. 17 September – In the third of three friendly fire incidents during the Laconia incident, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bomber attacked the German submarine U-506, which was carrying carrying 151 Laconia survivors. The attack failed to disable U-506.
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.