Jun 06 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor

Dec 29 Over France RCAF Flight Lt. Dick Audet destroys five German planes in ten minutes.

Dec 17 Japanese-Americans released from detention camps

Dec 30 King George II of Greece, renounces his throne

Dec 25 Canadian Army captures Adriatic coast city of Ravenna, Italy

Dec 16 The Battle of the Bulge begins in WWII as Germany launches a surprise counter-attack against Allied forces in Belgium.

Dec 31 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah

Dec 13 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138

Dec 16 Battle of the Bulge begins in Belgium

Dec 17 US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast

Dec 04 USS Flasher (SS-249) sinks Japanese destroyer Kishinami and damages a merchant ship in South China Sea. Flasher is only U.S. submarine to sink over 100,000 tons of enemy shipping in World War II.

Dec 20 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)

Dec 28 The Broadway musical On the Town opens in New York City.

Dec 03 Civil War starts in Athens Greece

Dec 15 A single-engine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller vanishes over the English Channel while en route to Paris.

Dec 15 Glenn Miller presumed dead after his plane disappeared over the English Channel

Dec 14 Congress establishes rank of General of the Army (5-star general)

Dec 26 Battle of Bastogne-US troops repulse the Germans

Dec 16 Germans begin Battle of the Bulge to strike back at U.S. troops.

Dec 22 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium

Dec 12 Three Evacuation Squadrons (VE) were established in the Pacific from Air Sea Rescue Squadron

Dec 03 Civil War breaks out in Greece

Dec 23 HMCS Clayoquot (Minesweeper) torpedoed off Halifax

Dec 18 Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" and "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Phillippines)

Aug 23 Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day 1944-1990)

Aug 05 More than 1,000 Japanese prisoners of war unsuccessfully attempt to escape from Camp in Cowra, New South Wales 234 are killed, 108 wounded.

Aug 05 More than 1,000 Japanese prisoners of war unsuccessfully attempt to escape from Camp in Cowra, New South Wales: 234 are killed, 108 wounded.

Aug 04 Anne Frank, 15, (Diary of Anne Frank) is arrested by Nazis

Aug 20 127 Flying Fortress Bombers drop high-explosives on the factory areas at Auschwitz, less than five miles east of the gas-chambers.

Aug 18 Major David V. Currie (The South Alberta Regiment) wins the Victoria Cross at St. Lambert-sur-Dives, France

Aug 16 U.S. War Department issues a statement that bombing Auschwitz would divert air power from "decisive operations elsewhere."

Aug 21 Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN

Aug 01 Poland - Warsaw Revolt Begins

Aug 11 An electric powered rescue hoist was installed on an HNS-1 helicopter at CGAS Floyd Bennett Field.

Aug 07 German counterattacks at Avranches "bottleneck." Allies successfully defend advances and continue to sweep Brittany.

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