WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JULY 1944
Find out what all happened May to July 1944

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

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)

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: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. (21. July 1944)

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

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: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France. (17. July 1944)

The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland (22. July 1944)

Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic. (17. June 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: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops. (10. June 1944)

German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece (5. May 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: Battle of Saipan – American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands. (9. July 1944)

World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort. (18. July 1944)

World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. (20. July 1944)