WHAT ALL HAPPENED NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1944
Find out what all happened November to December 1944

World War II: Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy massacre – American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper. (17. December 1944)

The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. (29. November 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: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium. (26. December 1944)

World War II: The Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indochina, now Vietnam. (22. December 1944)

King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant. (30. December 1944)

World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden. (19. November 1944)

World War II: Bitola Liberation Day (4. November 1944)

World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base. (18. December 1944)

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

World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany. (31. December 1944)

Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army. (3. December 1944)

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

World War II: Albania is liberated by partisan forces. (29. November 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: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium. (26. November 1944)

World War II: Battle of the Bulge – German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!" (22. December 1944)

World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway. (12. November 1944)