![]() Hitler orders Kesselring to withdraw from Rome.Īround 07.30 hours, advance units of the 5th US Army enters the city limits of Rome. Kesselring orders the German evacuation of Cassino.Īt 05.45 hours, 1,500 Allied artillery pieces commenced bombardment as US forces start their break-out from the beach at Anzio. The Allies start their effort to outflank the monastery at Cassino. The Crimea is cleared of German resistance and Sebastopol is retaken. The Russians launch their final attack on German forces in the Crimea. Russian troops move on to Romanian soil for the first time. Orde Wingate, head of the Burma based Chindits is killed along with nine others, when a USAAF Mitchell bomber crashes into the jungle covered hills of northeast India. ![]() ![]() Japan starts Operation U-Go – an attempt to push the Allies back to India by destroying their bases at Imphal and Kohima, in Burmha and north east India.Īt the start of a new major offensive the Allies drop 1,250 tons of bombs on Cassino in Italy. The Leningrad-Moscow rail line re-opens effectively ending the siege of Leningrad. Important events of 1944, including Operation Market Garden and D-Day (pictured above). ![]()
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