WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1944
Find out what all happened February to August 1944

Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema. (12. August 1944)

World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino – Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino. (18. May 1944)

German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece (5. May 1944)

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

Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. (1. April 1944)

World War II: Marseille is liberated. (23. August 1944)

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

Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma. (24. February 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: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. (21. July 1944)

World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island. (20. February 1944)

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

Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. (26. April 1944)

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill. (22. June 1944)

The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia. (23. February 1944)

The first German V-2 rocket hits the United Kingdom. (26. July 1944)

In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game. (10. June 1944)

World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies. (25. August 1944)

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

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