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| 1944 June 6 |
| | | The Allies cross the Channel on D-day for the Normandy invasion | |
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| 1944 June 6 |
| | | British general Bernard Montgomery commands the Allied land forces in the Normandy Landing on D-day | |
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| 1944 June 9 |
| | | Two pre-constructed harbours, known by the code name Mulberries, are towed across the Channel to Normandy | |
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| 1944 June 10 |
| | | German troops massacre more than 600 civilians in the French village of Oradour | |
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| 1944 June 13 |
| | | The first V-1 flying bombs (or doodlebugs) appear over London, numbering more than 2000 in two weeks | |
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| 1944 July 9 |
| | | American marines win the island of Saipan in the Marianas, bringing Japan within range of US bombers | |
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| 1944 July 20 |
| | | Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes death from a bomb placed by Claus von Stauffenberg | |
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| 1944 July 25 |
| | | The Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter-bomber flies into combat, introducing the jet era in aerial warfare | |
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| 1944 |
| | | from July - more than 5000 Germans, among them Rommel, die because of the Stauffenberg plot | |
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| 1944 August |
| | | The Allied advance in Italy comes to a halt at the Gothic Line of German defences, north of Florence | |
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