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    1944 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1944: The Polish resistance...
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  • in August 1944 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1944. For torpedoing of HMS Nabob see 30 September, 1944 Rohwer...
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    The 1944 Romanian coup d'état, better known in Romanian historiography as the Act of 23 August (Romanian: Actul de la 23 august), was a coup d'état led...
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  • In August 1944 (Russian: В августе 44-го…; better known as The Moment of Truth) is a 2001 Russian-Belarusian action film directed by Mikhail Ptashuk....
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    against Axis forces, which took place in Eastern Romania from 20 to 29 August 1944 during World War II. The 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts of the Red Army...
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    Allied troops were in France by the end of August. The decision to undertake cross-channel landings in 1944 was taken at the Trident Conference in Washington...
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    The Battle of Guam (21 July–10 August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured...
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    place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944. Paris had been occupied by Nazi...
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  • operator, code name "Adele" Charles Ronald Shearn. Arrived in France 8 August 1944. Killed in Burma, 1945. Also known as Prosper. SOE's most important network...
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    by Tokyo on August 15, 1945, after the dropping of the atomic bombs on mainland Japan and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. By mid-1944, American forces...
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  • 1944 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1944. 1944 (MCMXLIV)...
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    European resistance movement during World War II. The Uprising began on 1 August 1944 as part of a nationwide Operation Tempest, launched at the time of the...
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    landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War...
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    the destruction of Warsaw in late 1944 and in the massacre of more than 50,000 of Warsaw's inhabitants in August 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising – as well...
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    was a World War II military campaign, lasting from 2 February to 10 August 1944, in which the German Army Detachment "Narwa" and the Soviet Leningrad...
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    both in the second half of 1944, and the U.S. 10th Mountain Division in January 1945. In the period from June to August 1944, the Allies advanced beyond...
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    liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944, it moved back to the capital, establishing a new "national unanimity" government on 9 September 1944, including Gaullists...
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  • held from July to August 1944 in London, England, United Kingdom. The games were canceled because of World War II alongside the 1944 Winter Olympics in...
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    eclipse took place on Friday, August 4, 1944. List of lunar eclipses and List of 21st-century lunar eclipses Saros series 147 1944 Aug 04 chart Eclipse Predictions...
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    into the woods. By 29 August 1944, there had been as many as six attacks on recruits in the Stanislavshchyna. On 23 August 1944, in the area of the village...
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  • June–July 1944 Battle of Ancona: June–July 1944 Gothic Line: August–December 1944 Battle of Gemmano Battle of Rimini Battle of San Marino: September 1944 Battle...
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    The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. The election took...
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  • The Ordinance of 9 August 1944 was a constitutional law enacted by the Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF) during the Liberation of France...
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    with the loss of Saipan on 9 July 1944, Tojo and his cabinet handed in their resignation on 18 July 1944. In August 1944, Japanese troops led by three two-star...
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    7–13 August 1944. (Lüttich is the German name for the city of Liège in Belgium, where the Germans had won a victory in the early days of August 1914 during...
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    the command of that division for the period of 8–17 August 1944. During the remainder of August 1944, the rump of the division fought hard to keep the Partisans...
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  • took part in the 1943 Italian Campaign and in Operation Dragoon, the August 1944 Allied invasion of southern France. Most African soldiers of the CEF...
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    southern Finland from June to July and a change in Finnish leadership in August 1944, Finland negotiated a separate peace agreement with the USSR. The ceasefire...
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  • The Seventh Cross August 1944 1 August Wilson 12 August Mr. Skeffington 17 August Cry of the Werewolf The Soul of a Monster 23 August Marriage Is a Private...
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  • Michael of Romania led a coup d'état that deposed the Antonescu regime (August 1944) and put Romania on the side of the Allies for the remainder of the war...
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