WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JUNE 1944
Find out what all happened May to June 1944

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

Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government. (18. May 1944)

World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan. (15. June 1944)

Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses. (20. June 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: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces. (30. June 1944)

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

USS Missouri (BB-63) the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned. (11. June 1944)

World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacred 23 Canadian prisoners of war. (7. June 1944)

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

World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, ends with the defeat of the Polish resistance forces. (26. June 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)

The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died. (25. June 1944)

World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen. (14. June 1944)

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

World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history. (6. June 1944)

Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic. (17. June 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)