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| 1944 January I0 |
| | | Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law, is sentenced to death at the Verona trials and is executed | |
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| 1944 January I2 |
| | | The RAF's first jet, the Gloster Meteor, flies with a Whittle engine | |
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| 1944 January 22 |
| | | In Operation Shingle an Allied force lands at Anzio, on the west coast of Italy behind the German lines | |
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| 1944 January 27 |
| | | The German siege of Leningrad is finally broken, after 900 days | |
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| 1944 February |
| | | After relieving Leningrad, the Russians begin to drive the Germans back on all fronts | |
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| 1944 February 17 |
| | | US bombers destroy Japanese warships and planes in Operation Hailstone, a radar-guided night attack on the Truk Islands | |
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| 1944 March |
| | | A volunteer force, known as Merrill's Marauders, is commanded by Frank Merrill in US operations against the Japanese in Burma | |
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| 1944 March-June |
| | | William Slim secures the first Allied victories in the Burma campaign, at Imphal and Kohima in northeast India | |
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| 1944 May 18 |
| | | After a campaign of four months the monastery at Monte Cassino is captured, by Polish troops | |
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| 1944 June 4 |
| | | A multinational Allied force moves fast from Monte Cassino to capture Rome | |
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