WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1944
Find out what all happened February to December 1944

World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary. (19. March 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 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 Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, ends with the defeat of the Polish resistance forces. (26. June 1944)

World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin. (4. March 1944)

World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day. (5. June 1944)

World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians. (4. April 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: The Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs on Crucifix Hill just outside Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle. (8. October 1944)

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

Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre. (22. June 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: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising. (2. October 1944)

Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions. (12. August 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: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland. (5. August 1944)

World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris. (24. August 1944)

Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of World War 2. (25. October 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)

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)