Slovak National Uprising: 60,000 Troops Turn Against Nazis, August 29, 1944
Date: August 29, 1944
Date: August 29, 1944
The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time. Date: August 9, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on August 9 π Events on this day in 1944 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1944World War II Battle of Guam…
World War II: The USSΒ Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. Date: October 25, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on October 25 π Events on this day in 1944 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1944World…
World War II: Operation Hailstone begins: U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion. Date: February 17, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on February 17 π Events on this day in 1944 π On This Day…
World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek. Date: September 25, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on September 25 π Events on this day in 1944 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1944USSR Institutes Order of Nakhimov and Ushakov Naval Awards…
World War II: a single-engine UC-64A Norseman aeroplane carrying United States Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over the English Channel. Date: December 15, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on December 15 π Events on this day in 1944 π On This Day (Today) More events…
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. Date: September 3, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on September 3 π Events on this day in 1944 π On This Day (Today)…