WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1944
Find out what all happened May to October 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)

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: Menton is liberated from Germany. (8. September 1944)

World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end. (27. October 1944)

World War II: the Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive. (20. August 1944)

200 Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi (1. May 1944)

World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku and the battleship Musashi are sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. (24. October 1944)

World War II: The Liberation of Athens from the German invaders. (12. October 1944)

American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan. (12. June 1944)

Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux. (5. September 1944)

Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins. (19. September 1944)

The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary. (15. October 1944)

World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines. (23. October 1944)

World War II: the Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation. (26. July 1944)

World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini. (7. June 1944)

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

World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941. (9. June 1944)

World War II: The Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line. (11. May 1944)

Suffrage is extended to women in France. (5. October 1944)

Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later. (3. September 1944)