World War 2 - 1944AD
In 1944AD:
The Soviets relieved the city of Leningrad after a German siege lasting 890 days.
Allied forces in Italy landed behind the German Gustav Line at Anzio.
American forces under General Mark Clark occupied Rome.
Soviet forces crossed the Romanian border and reconquered the Crimea.
British forces began the reconquest of Burma from the Japanese.
U.S. Marines invaded Guam and Saipan in the Marianas.
U.S. forces under Admiral Nimitz defeated a Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
American aircraft from the Marianas began the strategic bombing of Japan.
Allied D-Day invasion forces landed at Normandy in northern France.
V-1 (and later the V-2) weapons of vengeance were launched against London.
German officers attempted to assassinate Hitler.
Allied forces broke out from the Normandy enclave and liberated Paris.
An Allied invasion force landed in southern France.
Romania and Bulgaria signed an armistice with the Allies and declared war on Germany.
Soviet forces reached the suburbs of Warsaw in Poland.
Polish resistance fighters were defeated by the Germans in the Warsaw Uprising.
The U.S. First Army occupied Aachen -- the first German city to fall to the Allies.
A British airborne landing at Arnhem in the Netherlands was repulsed by the Germans.
The German army launched the Battle of the Bulge, its last counteroffensive.
Communist resistance fighters under Josip Broz-Tito liberated Yugoslavia.
British forces occupied Athens and intervened in a communist-inspired civil war.
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