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Conflicts in 1944

  • Western New Guinea campaignThe Allied command set a clear goal for early 1944. They needed to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions in the Pacific theater.
  • Siege of MyitkyinaJoseph Stilwell intended to make a rapid march against Myitkyina, prophesying it to be a feat which will live in military history.
  • Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaignIn August 1942, the United States Pacific Fleet and Marine Corps began their first large-scale offensive across the Central Pacific.
  • Operation QueenAllied high command believed total victory could be achieved by Christmas 1944. This optimism followed the rapid advance after the Normandy breakout in June…
  • Battle of Guilin–LiuzhouIn August 1944, the Imperial Japanese Army launched a massive offensive known as Operation Ichigo. This campaign aimed to connect scattered territories under…
  • Budapest offensiveThe Red Army occupied Bucharest on the 31st of August 1944. This action secured Romania for the Soviet Union and opened a path into Hungary.
  • Leningrad–Novgorod offensiveThe first staff meeting to plan the liberation of Leningrad took place on the 9th of September 1943. This gathering occurred exactly two years and one day…
  • Operation OverlordIn May 1943, Allied leaders gathered at the Trident Conference in Washington to make a decision that would alter the course of history.
  • Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensiveIn January 1944, Soviet forces raised the Siege of Leningrad and drove the German Army Group North back to the Narva-Lake Ilmen-Pskov line.
  • Normandy landingsThe decision to invade Normandy in 1943 began a complex web of military deception known as Operation Bodyguard. Allied planners needed to convince Adolf…
  • First Jassy–Kishinev offensiveMarshal Ivan Konev commanded the 2nd Ukrainian Front during early March 1944. His forces began the Uman, Botoșani offensive operation on that date.
  • Continuation WarOn the 13th of March 1940, the Moscow Peace Treaty ended a ten-week conflict that left Finland with significant territorial losses.
  • Battle of the BulgeOn the 16th of December 1944, the German army launched a massive offensive through the Ardennes forest. This attack aimed to split Allied forces and capture…
  • Battle of LeyteOn the 20th of October 1944, General Douglas MacArthur waded through the surf onto Red Beach in Palo. He held a microphone aloft and spoke to the gathered…
  • Operation DragoonGeneral George Marshall proposed the invasion of Southern France in 1942. Joseph Stalin supported this plan at the Tehran Conference in late 1943.
  • 1944 Romanian coup d'étatThe night of the 13th of June 1944 marked the beginning of a secret alliance that would reshape Eastern Europe. In a hidden house at 103 Calea Moșilor in…
  • Battle of Leyte GulfThe Battle of Leyte Gulf began on the 23rd of October 1944 and ended on the 26th of that same month. It involved over 200,000 naval personnel across more…
  • Warsaw UprisingThe Warsaw Uprising began at 17:00 on the 1st of August 1944, when tens of thousands of Polish fighters rose against the German occupation.
  • Battle of ImphalIn March 1943, Lieutenant-General Renya Mutaguchi took command of the Fifteenth Army in Burma. He immediately began pushing for an invasion of India with a…
  • Battle of the Philippine SeaThe Battle of the Philippine Sea, fought on the 19th and the 20th of June 1944, was the largest carrier-to-carrier naval engagement in history.
  • Battle of KohimaThe Japanese plan to invade India, codenamed U-Go, began as a spoiling attack against the British IV Corps at Imphal in Manipur.
  • Operation U-GoIn 1942, the Japanese Army had driven British and Indian troops out of Burma. When monsoon rains stopped campaigning, British forces occupied Imphal, the…
  • Italian Civil WarOn the night between 24 and the 25th of July 1943, the Grand Council of Fascism approved a motion of no confidence against Benito Mussolini.
  • Lapland WarThe Moscow Armistice signed on the 19th of September 1944 marked the end of Finnish cooperation with Nazi Germany. Finland had fought alongside German forces…
  • Liberation of ParisOn the night of the 24th of August 1944, a half-track named "Ebro" rolled into the square in front of the Hôtel de Ville and opened fire on a group of German…
  • Slovak National UprisingOn the 14th of March 1939, the Slovak Parliament declared independence from the Czecho-Slovak Republic under strong pressure from the Third Reich.
  • Operation BagrationOn the 22nd of June 1944, the Red Army attacked Army Group Centre in Byelorussia. This offensive occurred just over two weeks after Operation Overlord began…
  • Siege of LeningradAdolf Hitler declared that Leningrad must die of starvation in a speech at Munich on the 8th of November 1941. The German High Command viewed the capture of…
  • World War II in YugoslaviaWorld War II in Yugoslavia was not one war but several, all happening at the same time. On the 6th of April 1941, the German Luftwaffe bombed Belgrade, and…
  • 1944 Bulgarian coup d'étatOn the 26th of August 1944, Premier Ivan Bagryanov's government proclaimed Bulgarian neutrality under the threat of an advancing Soviet front.
  • Belgrade offensiveIn August 1943, the German Wehrmacht maintained two army formations in the Balkans: Army Group E stationed in Greece and the 2nd Panzer Army operating across…
  • Dnieper–Carpathian offensiveThe Dnieper, Carpathian offensive began on the 24th of December 1943 and stretched until early May 1944. It involved almost 3,500,000 troops from both sides…
  • Operation CartwheelIn February 1942, Japanese forces captured Rabaul on the island of New Britain from Australian troops. This location became a major forward base for Japanese…
  • Second Jassy–Kishinev offensiveThe Red Army had advanced past Romania's pre-war borders in the Uman, Botoșani offensive in early April 1944. By late April, German-Romanian allies managed…
  • Operation Ichi-GoEmperor Hirohito approved the offensive on the 24th of January 1944. The Imperial General Staff sought to secure an overland rail route through French…