The discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.

It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944 and 1945.

A United States postage stamp of 1945 shows the Arc de Triomphe in the background as victorious American troops march down the Champs-Élysées and U. S. airplanes fly overhead on 29 August 1944.

* Brazil in World War II ( 1942 – 1945 ): Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany in August 1942 and in 1944 sent 25, 334 soldiers to fight in Italy.

Walter Johnson, Carl Hubbell, and Hal Newhouser are the only pitchers who have won multiple times, Newhouser winning consecutively in 1944 and 1945.

Wills also appeared in The Lone Prairie ( 1942 ), Riders of the Northwest Mounted ( 1943 ), Saddles and Sagebrush ( 1943 ), The Vigilantes Ride ( 1943 ), The Last Horseman ( 1944 ), Rhythm Round-Up ( 1945 ), Blazing the Western Trail ( 1945 ), and Lawless Empire ( 1945 ).

From 1942 to 1944 George Orwell was a proponent of Basic English, but in 1945 he became critical of universal languages.

The books that were influential in the early development of computational quantum chemistry include Linus Pauling and E. Bright Wilson's 1935 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics – with Applications to Chemistry, Eyring, Walter and Kimball's 1944 Quantum Chemistry, Heitler's 1945 Elementary Wave Mechanics – with Applications to Quantum Chemistry, and later Coulson's 1952 textbook Valence, each of which served as primary references for chemists in the decades to follow.

He worked on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ( 1945 ), and Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

In January 1944, he resumed command of ETOUSA and the following month was officially designated as the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ), serving in a dual role until the end of hostilities in Europe in May 1945.

The Germans launched a surprise counter offensive in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 which was turned back in early 1945 by the Allies after Eisenhower repositioned his armies and improved weather allowed the Air Force to engage.

Conquest's calculations excluded camp deaths before 1936 and after 1950, executions from 1939 – 1953, the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps and their deaths 1939 – 1953, the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941 – 1944 and their deaths, and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944 – 1945.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

Prior to that Essendon lost a hard fought grand final to Richmond in 1943 by 5 points, finished 3rd in 1944, and dropped to 8th in 1945.

The peace settlement in 1944 with the Soviet Union led to the Lapland War in 1945, where Finland fought Germans in Northern Finland.

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 classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

* 1944 – Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent

* Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe 1936 – 1944

* 1944 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer ( d. 2003 )

For twenty-two years, from its founding in 1944 to his retirement in 1966, the Liberal Party had had only one leader, Robert Menzies.

* 1944: " Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne " directed by Robert Bresson

* 1944 – Robert Powell, English actor

Robert Jonathan Demme ( born February 22, 1944 ) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter.

* 1944 – Robert Lamm, American musician ( Chicago )

Robert A. Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, and Isaac Asimov, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard | Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1944.

Robert Calvert ( 9 March 1944 – 14 August 1988 ) was a writer, poet, and musician.

* 1944 – Robert G. Cole, American soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor ( b. 1915 )

** Robert Calvert, writer, poet, and musician ( b. 1944 )

* March 20 – Robert Benoist, French race car driver and war hero ( d. 1944 )

In some versions of the quest for the Golden Fleece, for instance that published by Robert Graves in 1944, Atalanta sailed with the Argonauts as the only female among them.

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.

* Lionel Robert Wilberforce ( 1861 – 1944 ), British physicist, great-grandson of William Wilberforce and inventor of the Wilberforce pendulum

Robert Moon, an employee of the post office, is considered the father of the ZIP code ; he submitted his proposal in 1944 while working as a postal inspector.

On August 15, 1944, airborne units of the 6th Army Group provisional airborne division, commanded by US Major General Robert T. Frederick, opened Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France, with a dawn assault.

* Kershaw, Robert J., It Never Snows In September – The German View Of MARKET-GARDEN And The Battle Of Arnhem, September 1944, Ian Allan Publishing Ltd, 2004

* 1944 — Robert Burns Woodward and William von Eggers Doering synthesized quinine.

Laughton played a henpecked husband who eventually murders his wife in The Suspect ( 1944 ), directed by Robert Siodmak, who would become a good friend.

* A Child ’ s Garden of Verses ( Robert Louis Stevenson ); Blackie, 1944

The title was adopted from psychiatrist Robert M. Lindner's 1944 book, Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath.

## Robert Graves ( 1944 / 1945 ), The Golden Fleece / Hercules, My Shipmate, New York: Grosset & Dunlap

After the network sustained the program during its first two years, the sponsor became Roma Wines ( 1944 – 1947 ), and then ( after another brief period of sustained hour-long episodes, initially featuring Robert Montgomery as host and " producer " in early 1948 ), Autolite Spark Plugs ( 1948 – 1954 ); eventually Harlow Wilcox ( of Fibber McGee and Molly ) became the pitchman.