Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

* 1944 – Antonia Novello, Puerto Rican physician, 14th Surgeon General of the United States

General George C. Marshall, in a memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt dated 3 February 1944, wrote

In recognition of his senior position in the Allied command, on December 20, 1944 he was promoted to General of the Army, equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in most European armies.

* 1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge – German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: " Nuts!

Plans to form a Landsturm national militia in Eastern Germany as a last resort to boost fighting strength initially came from Oberkommando des Heeres chief General Heinz Guderian in 1944.

* 1944 – World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.

General Leclerc liberated Paris between 19 and 25 August 1944.

* Henning von Tresckow ( 1901 – 1944 ), Major General in the German Wehrmacht, active in the military resistance

* 1944 – General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.

His son, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also earned a posthumous Medal of Honor during World War II, for rallying and leading troops in the midst of heavy German resistance during the invasion of Normandy in June 1944 ; he died a month later and was awarded the Medal of Honor in September.

Roosevelt's eldest son, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., received the Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Normandy in 1944.

Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

King ( far right ) together with ( from left to right ) Governor General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | the Earl of Athlone, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Second Quebec Conference | Octagon Conference, Quebec City, September, 1944

* January 10 – Henning von Tresckow, Major General in the German Wehrmacht ( died 1944 )

* June 29 – Ludwig Beck, German general and Chief of the German General Staff ( d. 1944 )

On December 16, 1944, Marshall became the first American general to be promoted to five-star rank, the newly created General of the Army.

In May 1944, General Donovan, the head of the OSS, divided the unit into groups.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

General Patton's offensive, however, came to a screeching halt on August 31, 1944, as the Third Army literally ran out of fuel near the Moselle River, just outside of Metz, France.

On April 14, 1945 Patton was promoted to a full four-star General, a promotion long advocated by Secretary of War Stimson in recognition of Patton's battle accomplishments during 1944.

Belgium was run by a Germany military government under General Alexander von Falkenhausen until July 1944, and then under Reichskommissar Josef Grohé until liberation.

General Ludwig Beck of Wiesbaden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt of Adolf Hitler.

Born Máxima Zorreguieta in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 17 May 1971, Princess Máxima is the daughter of Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini ( b. 1928 ) and his second wife María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart ( b. 1944 ).

The Argentinean author, Jorge Luis Borges wrote the short story Funes the Memorious in 1944.

Jorge Ubico y Castañeda ( 10 November 1878 – 14 June 1946 ) was a Guatemalan dictator who held the title of President of Guatemala from 14 February 1931 to 4 July 1944.

* Jorge Zontal, artist and co-founder of the artistic collective General Idea ( born 1944 )

* São Jorge dos Ilhéus ( 1944 )

General Jorge Ubico, military dictator of Guatemala ( 1931 – 1944 )

The régimes of Manuel José Estrada Cabrera ( 1898 – 1920 ) and of General Jorge Ubico ( 1931 – 1944 ) opened the land and the economy of Guatemala to unrestricted foreign investment.

It was written by Jorge Amado in 1944.

Jorge Toriello Garrido ( died 1998 ) was one of the three leaders of the first government that ruled Guatemala from 20 October 1944 to 15 March 1945 as part of the October Revolution.

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala ( January 23, 1903 – April 9, 1948 ) was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister ( 1940 ) and Labor Minister ( 1943 – 1944 ), mayor of Bogotá ( 1936 ) and one of the most charismatic leaders of the Liberal Party.

* Jorge Reyes: 1944 to 1945

* The overthrow of Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, successor to Jorge Ubico as President of Guatemala in October 1944, by reformist military officers.

Jorge de Bagration y de Mukhrani or Giorgi Bagration-Mukhraneli or George Bagration of Mukhrani () ( February 22, 1944 – January 16, 2008 ) was a Spanish racing car driver of Georgian descent and a claimant to the headship of the Royal House of Georgia and to the historical throne of Georgia.

Jorge was born in Rome, Italy, in 1944 to the family of a Georgian émigré Prince Irakli Bagration-Mukhraneli, a descendant of the Mukhraneli branch of the Bagrationi royal family of Georgia.

The PGT was generally supportive of the reform efforts launched by Juan José Arévalo and Col. Arbenz after the overthrow of right-wing military dictator Gen. Jorge Ubico in 1944.

* " Tres versiones de Judas " ( 1944 ), a short story by Jorge Luis Borges ( from the collection Ficciones ) in which a fictional Swedish theologian claims that Judas is the real savior of mankind

San José Acatempa received its current name in 1944 by order of General Jorge Ubico.

Jorge Carpizo McGregor ( April 2, 1944 – March 30, 2012 ) was a Mexican jurist who occupied various high rank positions in the government of Mexico.