Aug 15 Anvil-Dragoon, U.S. 6th, 7th and French first Armies, attack Southern France and head toward Southern Germany.

Aug 15 Allied forces land in the south of France, Marseilles recaptured.

Aug 27 USS Stingray (SS-186) lands men and supplies on Luzon, Philippines to support guerilla operations against the Japanese.

Aug 06 Deportation of 70,000 jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins

Aug 22 HMS Nabob (Cdn. manned aircraft carrier) severely damaged by torpedo off Norway

Aug 25 Paris is taken by the Allies. General De Gaulle re-establishes a presence in the capital.

Aug 21 HMCS Alberni lost

Aug 29 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees

Aug 25 Germany Army by now has sustained 400,000 men killed, wounded or captured, plus 1,300 tanks, 1,500 artillery, and 3,500 aircraft destroyed.

Aug 30 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania

Aug 05 Mass break out of Japanese prisoners of war from Cowra Camp, NSW

Aug 10 Race riots in Athens Alabama

Aug 08 HMCS Regina (Corvette) torpedoed

Oct 26 U.S. defeats the Japanese Navy near the Phillipines.

Oct 30 Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen

Oct 08 "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio

Oct 07 A new Bureau of Aeronautics color specification went into effect which provided seven different color schemes for aircraft depending upon design and use

Oct 07 Inmates in Auschwitz rebel, one crematorium is blown up.

Oct 20 Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala

Oct 23 The largest naval battle in the history of warfare was fought near Leyte Gulf in the Philippines on Oct 23-26, 1944

Oct 21 Prv. Ernest Alva Smith (The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada) wins the Victoria Cross at the Savio River, Italy

Oct 20 General Douglas MacArthur keeps his famous promise and returns to the Philippines.

Oct 25 Japanese navy defeated at battle of Leyte Gulf

Oct 12 700 Riot Police are called in to restore order at Frank Sinatra Columbus Day appearance in New York City's Paramount Theater.

Oct 25 HMCS SKEENA (RCN), lost at Reykjavik, Iceland - driven ashore in heavy gale and wrecked.

Oct 01 Newspaper editor Alejandro C¢rdova assassinated in Guatemala

Oct 13 US First army begins battle of Aachen

Oct 19 US forces land in Philipines

Oct 21 US troops capture Aachen, first large German city to fall

Oct 23 Soviet army invades Hungary

Oct 27 Antwerp port is taken by the Allies.

Oct 18 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II

Oct 25 During Battle of Leyte Gulf in Battle of Surigao Straits, U.S. battleships execute the maneuver of "crossing the tee" of the Japanese forces. In Battle Off Samar, escort carriers, destroyers and destroyer escorts heroically resist attacks of Japanese Center Force. In Battle Off Cape Engano, 3rd Fleet carriers attack Japanese Northern Force sinking several small carriers.

Oct 24 In air-sea battle in the Sibuyan Sea, carrier aircraft attack Japanese Center Force.

Oct 14 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler

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