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* 1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O ' Kane ( the top American submarine captain of World War II ) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
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" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).
* 1944 – Felicity Palmer, English soprano
* 1944 – Georgios Balanos, Greek translator, author and publisher
* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )
* 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian ( d. 1944 )
* 1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress ( d. 2010 )
* 1944 – G. W. Bailey, American actor
* 1944 – Jan Bols, Dutch speed skater
* 1944 – Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist ( d. 2003 )
* 1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
* 1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during World War II, ends to a strategic stalemate.
* 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat ( d. 1944 )
* 1944 – Sam Elliott, American actor
* 1944 – Patricia McKissack, American author
* 1944 – Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, 9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.
* 1944 – Divina Galica, English skier and race car driver
* 1944 – Kevin Tighe, American actor
* 1944 – ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )
* 1944 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and musician
* 1996 – John McSherry, American baseball umpire ( b. 1944 )
* 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
* 1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Soviet politician ( d. 1998 )
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* USS New England ( AD-32 ), a ship originally planned as a submarine tender ( AS-28 ), laid down as a destroyer tender ( AD-32 ) in 1944, and cancelled in 1945 prior to launching
His father, Henry DeVries, died in combat on the destroyer USS Kalk in 1944 during the Battle of Hollandia.
* USS John P. Gray ( APD-74 ), ex-DE-673, a United States Navy high-speed frigate in commission from 1944 to 1946
Five OSS men participated in the very first UDT submarine operation with the USS Burrfish in the Caroline Islands in August 1944.
* USS Clarke County ( LST-601 ), a United States Navy tank landing ship in commission as USS LST-601 from 1944 to 1955 and as USS Clarke County in 1955 and during the late 1960s
* USS Castle Rock ( AVP-35 ), a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1946
* USS Burlington ( PF-51 ), a United States Navy patrol frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1952
* USS Grafton ( APA-109 ), a Bayfield-class attack transport launched in 1944 and scrapped in 1974
Shepard began his naval career after graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1944, and served on the destroyer USS Cogswell while it was deployed in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
* 1944 USS Spadefish-submarine ( sank 21 ships in 5 World War II Pacific patrols ( 4th highest number for a U. S. submarine ))
* 1944 USS Trepang-submarine ( sank 11 ships in 5 World War II Pacific patrols )
* 1944 USS Spot-submarine ( sank 1 ship in 3 World War II Pacific patrols )
* 1944 USS Springer-submarine ( sank 4 ships in 3 World War II Pacific patrols )
* USS Shannon ( 1944 – 1970 ), Robert H. Smith-class destroyer minelayer in the United States Navy
The USS Kasota was a naval tugboat, launched in 1944 and struck from the Navy list in 1961.
* Ernest E. Evans, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient for action as commander of Destroyer USS Johnston off Samar Island, Philippines, 1944
* USS Mariposa ( X-125 ), Liberty ship carrying gasoline ; sunk December 30, 1944 off Occidental Mindoro by Allied torpedoes after devastating Japanese air attack
Irving Berlin singing aboard USS Arkansas ( BB-33 ) | USS Arkansas, 1944
US Navy carriers at anchor at Ulithi ( from front to back ): USS Wasp ( CV-18 ) | Wasp, USS Yorktown ( CV-10 ) | Yorktown, USS Hornet ( CV-12 ) | Hornet, USS Hancock ( CV-19 ) | Hancock and USS Ticonderoga ( CV-14 ) | Ticonderoga, December 1944.
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