• 1944 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in December 1944: The U.S. Ninth...
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  • in December 1944 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during December 1944. Rohwer, Jürgen; Gerhard Hümmelchen. "Seekrieg 1944, November"...
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    of the Bulge, which by late December 1944 had decisively turned against the German forces. It began on 31 December 1944 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Alsace...
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  • 1944 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1944. 1944 (MCMXLIV)...
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    A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Friday, December 29, 1944. In a rare total penumbral eclipse, the entire Moon was partially shaded by the Earth...
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    The 1944 Tōnankai earthquake occurred at 13:35 local time (04:35 UTC) on 7 December. It had an estimated magnitude of 8.1 on the moment magnitude scale...
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  • Bastogne: The Desperate Defense, December 1944 is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates the German...
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    1944 by launching an invasion of India (Operation U-Go). This failed with disastrous losses. During the next campaigning season beginning in December...
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    campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes...
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    Michael Leslie Jones (born 27 December 1944) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known as the founder and leader of the British-American...
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    July 2016. Nafziger, George. "German Army, Battle of the Bulge, 15 December 1944" (PDF). Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. Retrieved 6...
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    Renée Lemaire (category 1944 deaths)
    24 December 1944) was a Belgian nurse who volunteered her service at an American military aid station during the Siege of Bastogne in December 1944. She...
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    contains provisions pertaining to taxation. The document was signed on December 7, 1944, in Chicago by 52 signatory states. It received the requisite 26th...
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    The Battle of Changsha of 1944 (also known as the Battle of Hengyang or Campaign of Changsha-Hengyang; Chinese: 長衡會戰) was an invasion of the Chinese province...
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    1944 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1944: The Polish resistance...
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    other European fronts 1 July 1943 1 November 1943 1 July 1944 1 September 1944 1 December 1944 1 May 1945 Research in 2016 funded by the German government...
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    advance late in 1944, although it was progressively weakened by the flyout of Chinese troops to the main front in China. On 10 December 1944, the 36th British...
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    Leahy, King, and Nimitz were promoted to the rank in December 1944, followed by Halsey in December 1945. While all four men effectively retired in the...
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    September–December 1944 Operation Queen Operation Clipper: November 1944 Battle of Vianden: November 1944 Battle of Kesternich: December 1944 – February...
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    and the "Star camp" for Dutch Jews). Between the summer of 1943 and December 1944 at least 14,600 Jews, including 2,750 minors were transported to the...
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    Budapest, defended by Hungarian and German troops, was encircled on 26 December 1944 by the Red Army and the Romanian Army. During the siege, about 38,000...
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  • June 1941 – 18 November 1942) Second (19 November 1942 – 31 December 1943) Third (1 January 1944 – 9 May 1945) The war with Japan, the Campaign in the Far...
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    powerful tropical cyclone that struck the United States Pacific Fleet in December 1944, during World War II. The storm sank three destroyers, killed 790 sailors...
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    Tallboy (bomb) (category Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1944)
    the original on 6 July 2007 June 1944 July 1944 August 1944 September 1944 October 1944 November 1944 December 1944 January 1945 February 1945 March 1945...
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  • Louis December 1944 1 December House of Frankenstein 5 December Blonde Fever 6 December Nothing but Trouble 15 December Hollywood Canteen 18 December Dangerous...
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    The Dutch famine of 1944–1945, also known as the Hunger Winter (from Dutch Hongerwinter), was a famine that took place in the German-occupied Netherlands...
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    Miklós Vig (category 1944 deaths)
    Miklós Vig (11 July 1898 – 19 December 1944) was a Hungarian cabaret and jazz singer, actor, comedian and theater secretary in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s...
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    before completion. Two similar guns were used to bombard Luxembourg from December 1944 to February 1945. The V-3 was also known as the Hochdruckpumpe ("High...
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    Waffen-SS (section 1944)
    Offensive (popularly known as the "Battle of the Bulge"), between 16 December 1944 and 25 January 1945, was a major German offensive through the forested...
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    front is considered a separate but related theatre. The Western Front's 1944–1945 phase was officially deemed the European Theater by the United States...
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