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The following events occurred in March 1944: March 1, 1944 (Wednesday) The Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive ended in Soviet victory.
13 July 1944 – -evacuation of Stalag Luft VI at Šilutė (Heydekrug) in Lithuania begins, to Stalag Luft IV at Gross Tychow involving a force march and 60hr journey by ship to Swinemünde, or by force march and cattle train to Stalag XX-A at Thorn in Poland. 24 December 1944 – POW work camps near Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) are evacuated.
1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.
Narva offensive (1–4 March 1944) Narva offensive (18–24 March 1944) O. Operation "Ukrainian Committee" S. Battle of Shangshak; U. Uman–Botoșani offensive
5: US planes bomb Singapore, the first of 11 such raids between November 1944 and March 1945.: The aircraft carrier USS Lexington is heavily damaged by kamikaze attacks. 7: Election Day in the U.S.: Roosevelt wins an unprecedented, unrepeated fourth term as U.S. president. 9: General Patton's troops and tanks cross the Moselle River and ...
The Battle of Shangshak took place in Manipur in the forested and mountainous frontier area between India and Burma, from 20 March to 26 March 1944.The Japanese drove a parachute brigade (fighting as infantry) of the British Indian Army from its positions with heavy casualties, but suffered heavy casualties themselves.
In February 1944, the Combined Fleet, the Imperial Japanese Navy's main striking force, withdrew from its base at Truk in the Central Pacific to Palau and Singapore. The appearance of a powerful naval force at Singapore alarmed the Allies, as it was feared that these ships would conduct raids into the Indian Ocean and against Western Australia. [9]
A number of Soviet bombing missions to then German-occupied Tallinn followed in 1942–1944. The most extensive of Soviet aerial bombing campaign in Tallinn occurred on 9–10 March 1944 and is known as the 1944 March bombing (Estonian: 1944 märtsipommitamine). After Soviet saboteurs had disabled the water supply, over a thousand incendiary ...