WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1944
Find out what all happened February to April 1944

Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered. (17. April 1944)

World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion. (17. February 1944)

The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards. (3. March 1944)

Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter. (16. April 1944)

World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers. (20. February 1944)

World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur. (29. February 1944)

World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java. (14. February 1944)

Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp. (10. April 1944)

World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins. (15. February 1944)

World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946. (28. April 1944)

World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days. (9. March 1944)

Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front. (10. March 1944)

The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia. (23. February 1944)

World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria. (30. March 1944)

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy killed 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes. (18. March 1944)

World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans. (5. April 1944)

Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. (1. April 1944)

The United Negro College Fund is incorporated. (25. April 1944)

World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison. (3. February 1944)

World War II: The Narva Offensive begins. (15. February 1944)