* 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

* 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.

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 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.

In 1944, she was anchored offshore for use as an RAF target when a gale dragged her to her present location and sank her.

She struck a mine on 15 November 1943 and sank while under tow on 18 June 1944.

The Battle of the Sibuyan Sea was fought here on October 24, 1944 where the Japanese battleship Musashi sank and other ships were damaged.

USS England sank six Japanese submarines in a matter of days with Hedgehog in May 1944.

* German submarine U-9 ( 1935 ), a Type IIB submarine that served in the Second World War and sank on 20 August 1944

*, was a Fletcher-class destroyer, which sank in the Battle off Samar in 1944

On 20 February 1944, shortly after setting off around midnight, the ferry and its cargo sank in deep water, finally capping the original mission ′ s objective and halting Germany ′ s atomic bomb development programme.

On 31 January 1944 Walker's group gained their first kill of the year when they sank U-592.

On 20 February 1944 one of Walker's group, HMS Woodpecker, was torpedoed and sank seven days later while being towed home ; all of her crew were saved.

The first successful use was by HMS Loch Killin on 31 July 1944, when she sank U333 ; the system was credited with sinking 17 submarines in 50 attacks.

Spotted by an enemy aircraft north of the Western Carolines on April 13, 1944, the became the quarry of a patrolling enemy destroyer called the IJS " Ikazuchi ", which closed to within 900 yards of the submarine before Dealey fired a spread of torpedoes that sank the enemy destroyer within five minutes.

* On 20 February 1944, a successful attack by Norwegian resistance sank the ferry D / F " HYDRO " that was taking a shipment of heavy water to Germany.

The most distinguished Old Boy was Group Captain James Brian Tait, one of the RAF's most highly decorated bomber pilots, who led the attack which sank the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944.

Later in the war he had responsibility for the design and fitting of the explosive charges that sank 77 condemned ships off the coast of Normandy, where they formed part of the Mulberry Harbour used during D-Day and after in 1944.

Direct assaults through the heavily defended city finally forced the German garrison to surrender on 21 October 1944.

For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

In 1944, Hendrik van de Hulst predicted microwave radiation at a wavelength of 21 cm resulting from interstellar atomic hydrogen gas ; this radiation was observed in 1951.

The last time Riefenstahl saw Hitler was when she married Peter Jacob on March 21, 1944, shortly after she had introduced Jacob to Hitler in Kitzbühel, Austria.

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson ( née Bourke ) (; born 21 May 1944 ) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002.

Between 21 August and 7 October 1944 the Dumbarton Oaks Conference was held, which among other things created an international court attached to the United Nations, to succeed the Permanent Court of International Justice.

Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991 ) was the sixth Prime Minister of India ( 1984 – 1989 ).

* German patent search system-look for Patent DE 932410 filed March 21, 1944

21 Kislev-( 1944 )-Satmar Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum rescued

* April 21 – Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen President ( b. 1944 )

* April 21 – Matsuji Ijuin, Japanese admiral ( d. 1944 )

* November 21 – William Emerson Ritter, American biologist ( d. 1944 )

V Corps was committed on 21 November 1944.

Peter Lindsay Weir, AM ( born 21 August 1944 ) is an Australian film director.

* 1944 — Hendrik van de Hulst predicts the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (), Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg ( 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944 ), was a German army officer and aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power.

On November 21, 1944, the AAFC chose Jim Crowley, one of the " Four Horsemen of Notre Dame ", as its commissioner.

To promote the film, Paramount showed a 20 minute preview on television on 21 March 1944, with stills from the film, narration by Eddie Bracken, and an interview with Diana Lynn.

The film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944.

Gottfried Wilhelm " Billy " Bitzer ( April 21, 1874-April 29, 1944 ) was a pioneering cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith.

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Following its liberation on September 21, 1944, reconstruction work began, culminating in huge development of the tourist industry in the city.

Raymond Douglas " Ray " Davies, CBE ( ; born 21 June 1944 ) is an English rock musician.