WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1944
Find out what all happened February to September 1944

World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot". (20. June 1944)

World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22. (17. February 1944)

World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration. (3. July 1944)

World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia. (9. March 1944)

World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, ends with the defeat of the Polish resistance forces. (26. June 1944)

World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan. (7. July 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. (5. August 1944)

World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden. (25. September 1944)

World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union. (22. August 1944)

World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated. (28. August 1944)

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

Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins. (19. September 1944)

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

World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini. (7. June 1944)

Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery. (15. September 1944)

World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, 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. (6. June 1944)

Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis. (29. August 1944)

Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War). (19. September 1944)

World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France. (10. June 1944)

The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut. (6. July 1944)