WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1944
Find out what all happened August to December 1944

The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II. (27. September 1944)

World War II: Operation Dragoon – Allied forces land in southern France. (15. August 1944)

Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring. (7. November 1944)

World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front begins. (31. December 1944)

World War II: 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp. (20. August 1944)

World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed. (18. September 1944)

World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris. (26. August 1944)

The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division. (29. October 1944)

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

World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces. (6. September 1944)

World War II: RAF Fauld explosion – An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people. (27. November 1944)

World War II: the Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive. (20. August 1944)

World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people. (26. November 1944)

Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130. (20. October 1944)

World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners. (5. August 1944)

The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371. (10. November 1944)

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

First flight of the Junkers Ju 287. (16. August 1944)

World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. (19. November 1944)

Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux. (5. September 1944)