By the summer of 1944 the reversal of fortune was complete and Operation Bagration saw Soviet forces inflict crushing defeats on Germany through the aggressive use of armour, infantry and air power in combined strategic assault, known as deep operations.

The war years also saw the flowering of the Powell and Pressburger partnership with films like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) which, while set in wartime, were very much about the people affected by war rather than battles.

Goebbels saw Himmler as a potential ally against Bormann and in 1944 is supposed to have voiced the opinion that if the Reichsführer-SS was granted control over the Wehrmacht and he, Goebbels, granted control over the domestic politics, the war would soon be ended in a victorious manner.

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.

During September 1944, the city saw heavy fighting during Operation Market Garden.

The UDTs saw their first combat on 31 January 1944, during Operation Flintlock in the Marshall Islands.

: The Games of 1944 had been allocated to London and so it was that in October, 1945, the chairman of the British Olympic Council, Lord Burghley, went to Stockholm and saw the president of the International Olympic Committee to discuss the question of London being chosen for this great event.

The Estonian units saw action defending the Narva line throughout 1944.

They were subjected to the same treatment and abuse as other Buchenwald prisoners until October 1944, when a change in policy saw the aviators dispatched to Stalag Luft III, a regular prisoner-of-war camp ( POW ) camp ; nevertheless, two airmen died at Buchenwald.

In November 1944, his division first saw combat, on the Philippine island of Leyte.

During the war he saw two tours of duty: The first in 1942, while also serving as a U. S. Senator, and the second in 1944 – 5 after resigning from the Senate.

Lodge served the first year of his new Senate term, but then resigned his Senate seat on February 3, 1944 in order to return to active duty, the first U. S. Senator to do so since the Civil War He saw action in Italy and France.

*, the lead ship of the Alaska class large cruisers, in commission from 1944 to 1947 ; she saw action in the last days of World War II

He saw no action until the winter of 1944, when his unit was transferred to the Netherlands.

* 1944 also saw animated gremlins playing a role in the romantic comedy starring Simone Simon called Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More, with an uncredited Mel Blanc providing the voice.

The Second World War saw Durrës ( called Durazzo again in Italian ) and the rest of Albania being annexed to the Kingdom of Italy between 1939 – 1943, then occupied by Nazi Germany until 1944.

The island chain saw fighting between the US and Japanese forces in 1944 during World War II.

The 1944 Education Act saw the abolition of fees ( apart from boarding charges ), with the cost of education now being met by the local authority.

Despite this dispute, the West saw them as a stabilizing, unthreatening force and so invested heavily in the nation under William Tubman's leadership ( 1944 – 1971 ).

He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1944 but never saw active service.

After the liberation of the country from fascist occupation in the Second World War and the formation of the modern Macedonian state, the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra was established in 1944, while 1947 saw the formation of the Association of Musicians of Macedonia.

One of those who saw such a security link was Cordell Hull, the United States Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944.

Averell Harriman, U. S. ambassador in Moscow, once a " confirmed optimist " regarding U. S .- Soviet relations, was disillusioned by what he saw as the Soviet betrayal of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising as well as by violations of the February 1945 Yalta Agreement concerning Poland.

The 2nd and 5th Ranger battalions first saw action 6 June 1944, during Operation Overlord.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

Two Cities Films, an independent production company also made some important films including This Happy Breed ( 1944 ), Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) and Sir Laurence Olivier's Henry V ( 1944 ) and Hamlet ( 1948 ).

The most notable examples in cinema are Laurence Olivier's 1944 version and Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film, both of which draw additional material from the Henry IV plays.

* Henry Hague Davis ( January 31, 1935 – June 30, 1944 )

In November 1944, the UK Chiefs of Staff had requested a report from Sir Henry Tizard on potential future means of warfare.

His father, Henry DeVries, died in combat on the destroyer USS Kalk in 1944 during the Battle of Hollandia.

* May 3 – Henry Francis Bryan, governor of American Samoa ( d. 1944 )

* March 29 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States ( d. 1944 )

** Henry Wood, British conductor ( d. 1944 )

* August 23 – Henry F. Warner, American soldier, Medal of Honor ( d. 1944 )

She was accepted to the membership of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1926, becoming its second female member ; the society later awarded both her and her husband ( posthumously ) the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in 1944 for her contributions to industrial engineering.

Poster for Olivier's 1944 Henry V

** Henry V ( 1944 film ), a film adaptation of Shakespeare's play, directed by Laurence Olivier

******* HRH The Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg ( 1857 – 1944 )

Magadan was temporarily transformed into a Potemkin village to mark an official visit by U. S. Vice-President Henry Wallace in May 1944.

Groves met with the Chief of United States Army Air Forces, General Henry H. Arnold, in March 1944 to discuss the delivery of the finished bombs to their targets.

Being the center-point for a Republican Party revolution in Indiana and the Midwest, mainly by sponsoring a huge " Cornfield-Conference " on one of his farms in 1938, Capehart was first elected to the United States Senate in 1944, narrowly defeating Henry Schricker, going on to win subsequent victories in 1950 and 1956 against token opposition.

The Survey was formed on 3 November 1944 by Henry Stimson in response to a directive by President Roosevelt.

His parents, George Philip Gein ( 1873 – 1940 ) and Augusta Wilhelmine ( Lehrke ) Gein ( 1878 – 1945 ), both natives of Wisconsin, had two sons: Henry George Gein ( 1901 – 1944 ), and his younger brother, Edward Theodore Gein.

On May 16, 1944 his brother Henry decided to burn off a marsh on the property.

The publication in 1944 of the first in-depth study and analysis of Joyce's final text — A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson — tried to prove to a skeptical public that if the hidden key or " Monomyth " could be found, then the book could be read as a novel with characters, plot, and an internal coherence.