WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1944
Find out what all happened September to December 1944

Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp. (10. October 1944)

World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time. (8. September 1944)

World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. (19. November 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)

World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria. (7. October 1944)

World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium. (26. December 1944)

World War II: RAF Fauld explosion – An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people. (27. November 1944)

Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. (30. October 1944)

World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden. (25. September 1944)

World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands. (1. November 1944)

The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. (25. October 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)

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: 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: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union. (4. September 1944)

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

Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia. (28. September 1944)

World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising. (2. October 1944)

World War II: Albania is liberated by partisan forces. (29. November 1944)

The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II. (27. September 1944)