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June 6 – World War II – Battle of Normandy: Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland, in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
American troops advance towards San Jose on Leyte Island, October 20, 1944. Light aircraft carrier USS Princeton afire, east of Luzon , October 24, 1944. Volkssturm founded in October 1944.
1944 – G.I. Bill; 1944 – D-Day (also known as Operation Overlord) 1944 – Bretton Woods Conference; 1944 – Battle of Peleliu; 1944 – Battle of Leyte; 1944 – Battle of the Bulge; 1944 – U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt reelection for a fourth term, becomes the only U.S. president elected four times.
: Germans defeat American troops in the Battle of Cisterna near Anzio. [2] 3: American planes bomb Eniwetok in the Marshalls, later to be a major B-29 base. 4: Kwajalein, the world's largest atoll and a major Japanese naval base, is secured. 5: The American Navy bombards the Kuril Islands, northernmost in the Japanese homelands.
November 1944 events in North America (2 C, 1 P) December 1944 events in North America (3 C) C. 1944 events in Canada by month (5 C) M. 1944 events in Mexico by month ...
October 1944 events in the United States (1 C, 1 P) November 1944 events in the United States (2 C, 35 P) December 1944 events in the United States (1 C, 1 P)
Members of the 1944 Iowa State men's basketball team (left to right): Roy Wehde, Price Brookfield, Gene Oulman, Bob Sauer, Ray Wehde. That season was the last time the Cyclones reached the Final Four.
1944 events in the United States by month (12 C) / 1944 disestablishments in the United States ... 1944 American novels (34 P) P. 1944 in American politics (4 C, 2 P) S.