1944
May 1944.
9th	USS England sets a record after sinking six Japanese U Boats in less than 14 days off New Guinea.
	British and Polish troops capture Casino
27th	Allies land on Biak Island 900 miles from the Philippines.
June 1944.
4th	Allies drop 8,000 tons of bombs on Boulogne. Rome liberated by the Allies.
6th JUNE 1944 D.DAY	D Day Landings in Normandy. D was the secret word used by Allied High Command the Day of the landings. The largest invasion in history. _____________ THE INVASION OF FRANCE The King's Statement. Churchill's Statement. D Day. Biggest invasion fleet in history lands at dawn on the Normandy beaches. Churchill speaks to the House of Commons. June 6, 1944
	Sappers have laid an emergency bridge.
	Round the clock aerial attacks all over Northern France with fighter cover.
10th	SS Troops shoot all the men in a barn and burn all the French women villagers in the Church of the Oradour-sur-Glane as reprisals. D Day US Troops land at dawn on Normandy beaches.
12th	US bombers strike at Saipan, Tinian, and Guam in the Pacific.
13th	First V1 Rocket propelled flying bomb lands on England.
22nd	The floating Mulberry Harbours were Churchill's idea. Floating up and down with the tide they permit 24 hour a day unloading of deep water ships. Allies seize two Rocket launching sites in the Cherbourg peninsula.
20th	USAAF Fortress B 29 Bombers bomb Japanese mainland.
July. 1944.	British Troops landing on Normandy beaches on the dawn of D Day
	Another evacuation of children from London because of flying bomb raids.   Gen Dwight D Eisenhower C in C of Allied Expeditionary Force
10th	Caen falls to the Allies. The same group who two days before at Oradour - sur - Glane murdered 642 people - the entire population of this small French village carried out another Nazi in reprisal and hung 99 hostages in Tulle.
13th	4 V1 German rockets nicknamed by the British as 'doodlebugs' kill 6 people in London. Vilna in Lithuania falls to the Red Army.
14th	All Jews in Corfu (1,795) arrive in Greek mainland on way to Auschwitz - Birkenau death camp. Loaded into sealed cattle wagons they travelled by train for 27 days without food or water. Half died on the way. The rest were gassed and cremated on arrival.
20th	Assassination plot against Hitler in his Wolf's Lair in East Prussia fails but kills three officers.
21st	Troops pour into Berlin after the attempt on Hitler's life. The miles of death and destruction in the infamous Falaise Gap. US troops land on Guam in the Pacific.
23rd	Himmler launches a manhunt for Hitler's assassins.
24th.	Nearly 750,000 Allied Troops landed by now in Normandy.
	An American soldier comforts an injured colleague.
12th	Auschwitz - Birkenau closed down after the last 4,000 were gassed.
	Appalling US jungle fighting in the Pacific.
	Huge numbers of women and children again evacuated from London because of Rocket attacks.
31st	US troops drive Germs from Normandy.
	Red Army outside Warsaw.
August 1944.
1st	Poles in Warsaw rise and cease control.
	US Troops take Pacific island of Tinian.
2nd	US Troops under General Patton reach Dinan and Rennes in France.
	Hitler says he wants bomb conspirators hung up like butchered cattle.
7th	German V1 Rockets landing on the UK have kill over 5,000 people and destroyed 35,000 homes.
8th	Colonel Graf Klaus von Stauffenberg who left the bomb which was meant to kill Hitler (and others) hung by a meat hooks and left to agonising deaths whilst being filmed for Hitler's pleasure. British and Canadian forces break out south of Caen.
11th	Churchill visits the troops in Normandy.
12th	Pluto - the cross channel under sea pipe line begins supplying troops with fuel.
14th	Americans reach the river Seine 40 miles before Paris.
15th	Paris police go on strike and join the Resistance. Massive Allied Forces land in South of France. Red Army reach East Prussia.
19th	Marshall Petain arrested by the German SS.
20th	Paris Resistance leads an uprising against Germans in Paris. Allied Forces takes Florence. Marseilles and Grenoble fall to Allies. Nazi's destroy Warsaw in trying to put down the Polish uprising. Russia know of the Poles plight but refuse to come to their aid. Horrendous loss of life and suffering.
25th	Paris liberated.
26th	250 people killed when a 'doodle bug' lands in Barnet North London. Maidenek concentration camp exposed. 1.5 million Jews and Gypsies murdered here.
31st	67,000 Jews deported from the Lodds Ghetto to their deaths by gas at Auschwitz. Red Army captures Bucharest and its oil installations.

The purpose of these pages is to tell the story of Churchill's life - not to give a detailed account of the wars he was involved in, for that is a vast subject.

To obtain an idea of the cause and magnitude of the war, examine the monthly calendar for each year - they include many photographs.

It is important to remember that heavy censorship of news took place throughout them, and therefore knowledge of many of these events was not available until long after they happened - or until after the wars had ended.

1939.
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1940.	September	October	November	December
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