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1944
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SEPTEMBER 1944
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1st
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Allies capture Dieppe and Arras and reach Belgium border.
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4th
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Allies capture Brussels and Antwerp and cross into
Holland.
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9th
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First V2 Rocket drops on London - huge damage but only
three people killed.
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10th
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Himmler orders the entire families of deserters to be
killed.
Canadians capture Zeebrugge.
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11th
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Churchill meets
Roosevelt.
US First Army under General Omar Bradley crosses German
border.
Seven more German Generals hanged for Hitler bomb plot.
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17th
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Relaxation of blackout restrictions in UK.
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SEPTEMBER 1944
17th
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Troops capture
Caen in Normandy
Invasion
Gliders
Arnhem disaster begins.
Allies capture Boulogne.
Blackout restrictions lifted in the UK.
Germans Troops on the run on all fronts
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22nd
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USAF make first raid on Manilla.
US Marines
capture Manilla.
Red Army captures Tallinn in Estonia.
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26th
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Dr Mengele selects 1000 children to send to the gas
chambers.
7,000 allied troops lost at Arnhem in attempting to seize
three vital bridges.
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28th
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German civilians
made to bury the Dead of Concentration camps.
200 Gypsies are gassed at Auschwitz.
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29th
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British and Polish troops surrender at Arnhem after a 9
day heroic siege.
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30th
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Canadians turn Germans out of Calais.
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October 1944
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British forces land on Crete.
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7th
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7 homosexual prisoners are castrated in the name of
medical research at Buchenwald.
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Hitler orders the evacuation of Greece.
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9th
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Allies decide to form the United Nations (Washington)
Churchill arrives in Moscow for talks.
US Navy Aircraft
Carrier in the Pacific.
Allies surround Germans at Aachen and order them to
surrender. Gestapo loot German homes.
Red Army enters Riga in Latvia.
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14th
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Rommel visited by Hitler's senior staff at his home and
then commits suicide (to save his family) because he had
been linked to the July plot. Official explanation of his
death was killed by enemy action and given a state Funeral
on the 17th October.
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16th
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Huge volume of personal and medical experiment records
burned in the gas ovens at Auschwitz to conceal evidence.
Terrible food shortages in Germany.
Rival partisans fight for power in Greece.
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October 1944
24th
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US Navy crushes Japan in great sea battle in the
Philippines.
Japanese War Lord
Yamaoto
US Navy crushes
Japan in great sea battle in the Philippines.
US Forces land on Leyte in the central Philippines.
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200 Dutch people herded into the Town Hall in Heusden by
the Germans and then they blow it up.
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Red Army and Marshall Tito capture Belgrade.
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November 1944
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Europe is in ruins with winter approaching with starving
refugees and homeless people wandering all over it.
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1st
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Red Army capture Belgrade.
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7th
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De Gaulle demands a French Zone of occupation of Germany.
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12th
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Paris bestows the Freedom of the City upon Churchill.
Receives stupendous reception.
RAF sink Tirpitz.
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16th
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Germans reported to have blown up Town Hall of Heusden
with 200 people inside it.
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17th
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Red Cross visit Auschwitz but not able to inspect it
properly.
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Churchill
inspects V2 Damage
Over a 100 V2 have land on London since the first arrived
with huge damage and many deaths.
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25th
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A single V2 Rocket kills 160 in South London.
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American bombers raid Tokyo.
Churchill meets
commandos.
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General Patton's tanks enter Saar Basin.
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30th
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Churchill 70 years of age.
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DECEMBER 1944.
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3rd
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Gen Patton crosses the Saar and reaches the Siegfried
Line.
Iwo Jima in the Pacific heavily bombed by USAAF.
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12th
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Germans in large retreat over the Rhein.
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9 members of the Gestapo sentenced to death in Paris.
"German troops
are lost"
During the Watch am Rhein
offensive. The officer on the left of the photograph may be
Joachim Peiper, who commanded the I Panzer Corps
task-force.
(Our thanks to
Jonathan Wilde for this attribution).
20 million people homeless in Germany.
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Kamikaze attack
on US Warship.
US forces land in Mindoro in Philippines.
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22nd
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Battle of the Bulge near Bastogne. Set back to US Forces
in Europe in very bad weather.
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Red Army fights in Budapest and Hungary declares war on
Germany.
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25th
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Churchill arrives in Athens to try and end the civil war.
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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.
