WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1944
Find out what all happened January to February 1944

World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units. (29. January 1944)

World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy. (31. January 1944)

World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins. (4. January 1944)

World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy. (22. January 1944)

World War II: Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three-year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad. (18. January 1944)

Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma. (24. February 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: The United States takes Eniwetok Island. (20. February 1944)

World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle. (7. February 1944)

World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted. (27. January 1944)

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

World War II: American troops land on Majuro. (30. January 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)

World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. (31. January 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: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java. (14. February 1944)

World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone. (22. February 1944)

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

World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy. (30. January 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)