1944 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1944?
- January 4, 1944 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
- January 25, 1944 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- January 30, 1944 – World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
- February 20, 1944 – World War II: The “Big Week” began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
- March 10, 1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
- April 22, 1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with CSAR operations in the China-Burma-India theater.
- April 28, 1944 – World War II: Nine German S-boots attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
- May 18, 1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
- June 4, 1944 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
- June 13, 1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
- August 5, 1944 – World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
- August 9, 1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
- August 19, 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
- August 20, 1944 – World War II: 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being “terror fliers”, arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
- August 22, 1944 – World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
- September 11, 1944 – World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
- October 14, 1944 – Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head-of-government.
- December 26, 1944 – World War II: Patton’s Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
- December 30, 1944 – King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
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