WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1944
Find out what all happened March to December 1944

World War II: Bombing of Tokyo – The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft. (24. November 1944)

World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets. (13. June 1944)

World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria. (30. March 1944)

World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall. (4. June 1944)

Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial. (6. July 1944)

ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia. (2. August 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: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising. (2. October 1944)

World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan. (7. July 1944)

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

Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds. (14. April 1944)

World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops. (10. June 1944)

Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins. (21. August 1944)

World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans. (5. April 1944)

World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest. (16. December 1944)

Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre. (22. June 1944)

World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium. (26. November 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)

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

Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R (11. October 1944)