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| 1943 November |
| | | The Germans halt the Allied advance along the Gustav Line, which includes Monte Cassino | |
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| 1943 November |
| | | Mussolini becomes Hitler's puppet ruler of a new Fascist republic in north Italy | |
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| 1943 December |
| | | Carl ('Tooey') Spaatz is appointed to command the US Strategic Air Forces in Europe | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Colossus Mark I, the world's first computer, goes into decoding service at Bletchley Park in Britain | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Ibn Saud and his US partners set up ARAMCO, the Arabia-American Oil Company | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Commissioned by a church in Northampton to sculpt a Madonna and Child, British sculptor Henry Moore produces the first of his family groups | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Saul Bellow publishes his first novel, Dangling Man, a study of an intellectual adrift as he waits to be drafted into the army | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Composer Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins work together on the ballet Fancy Free | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Buchenwald, writes his Letters and Papers from Prison | |
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| 1944 |
| | | The monastery and town of Monte Cassino are left in ruins after the Allies finally break through the German defences | |
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