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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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| 1944 |
| | | Fancy Free becomes On the Town, a Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein, directed by Jerome Robbins | |
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| 1944 |
| | | The World Bank and IMF are conceived at an international conference in the USA, at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire | |
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| 1944 |
| | | 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor co-stars with a horse in the film National Velvet | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Boston writer Robert Lowell publishes his first book of poems, Land of Unlikeness | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Jorge Luis Borges publishes Fictions, a collection of short stories | |
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| 1944 |
| | | The separate poems forming T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets are brought together for the first time as a single volume, published in New York | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Laurence Olivier directs and stars in a patriotic film of Henry V with stirring music by William Walton | |
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| 1944 |
| | | An uprising in Guatemala brings in a revolutionary junta and a left-wing programme of reform | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Aaron Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring has choreography by Martha Graham | |
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| January |
| | | US general Dwight Eisenhower is appointed to command the Allied invasion of Normandy | |
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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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| 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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