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.

In 1944, van Vogt moved to Hollywood, California, where his writing took on new dimensions after World War II.

He summoned Presse to administer the Catholic Sacraments on his death bed in November 1944.

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

* He married, on October 9, 1944, in Geneva, Switzerland, Yvonne Blanche Labrousse ( February 15, 1906-July 1, 2000 ).

* 1944 – World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.

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.

In 1944, the American armed forces constructed a small and short-lived air base on the island of Santa Maria.

* 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.

On 23 August 1944, Romania quit the Axis Powers and declared war on Germany, and allowed Soviet forces to cross its territory to reach Bulgaria.

On 26 August 1944, the Fatherland Front made the decision to incite an armed rebellion against the government, which led to the appointment of a new government on 2 September.

On 5 September 1944, the Soviet Union declared war and invaded on Bulgaria.

The winners receive the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, which became the official name of the award in 1944, in honor of the first MLB commissioner, who served from 1920 until his death on November 25, 1944.

While previously held elsewhere within or near the capital city, since 1918 it has been held on the Champs-Élysées, with the evident agreement of the Allies as represented in the Versailles Peace Conference, and with the exception of the period of German occupation from 1940 to 1944.

Prior to the Normandy landings on D-Day in June 1944, the Allies knew the locations of all but two of the 58 German divisions on the Western front.

The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, was fought between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from September – November 1944 on the island of Peleliu, present-day Palau.

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.

Germany's last offensive on its Western front, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive launched towards the vital port of Antwerp in December 1944.

In 1944, Jones wrote to John Walvoord of Dallas Theological Seminary that while the university had " no objection to educational work highly standardized …. We, however, cannot conscientiously let some group of educational experts or some committee of experts who may have a behavioristic or atheistic slant on education control or even influence the administrative policies of our college.

* A photographic record of aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable, 1944 – 45, including Operation Iceberg, the attack on the Sakashimas

His Principles of Physical Geology, ending with a chapter on continental drift, was published in 1944.

In the early stages of the 1944 Battle of Normandy before the Culin Cutter, breaking through the Bocage hedgerows relied heavily on Sherman dozers.

* 1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.

Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.

After the Continuation War Finland lost major land areas to Russia in the Moscow Armistice of 1944, and the figure was said to have lost the other of her arms, as well as a hem of her " skirt ".

He fathered two children with her: a son, Helge ( born 1942 ) and a daughter, Nanette Dorothea ( born 1944 at Berchtesgaden ).

The characters that he played onscreen during this period ranged from a serial killer in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943, opposite Teresa Wright ) to an eager police detective in Gaslight ( 1944, with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury in her film debut ).

His wife Helma died of cancer on 29 October 1944, although Schwitters only heard of her death in December ; at about the same time, he discovered that the Merzbau had been destroyed during an allied air raid.

For whatever reason, her relationship with Hitler had declined by 1944, when her brother Heinz died on the Russian Front of the war.

* 1944 – Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.

An ankle injury during parachute training delayed her deployment until 5 April 1944, when she parachuted into German-occupied France, near Cherbourg.

Her daughter, Tania Szabo, wrote a reconstruction of her two missions in 1944 into the then most dangerous areas in France with flashbacks to her growing up.

In 1944, she was diagnosed as having tuberculosis in her left lung and spent several weeks in hospital before appearing to have recovered.

Eleanor Roosevelt, in her My Day column for October 12, 1944, eulogized Willkie as a " man of courage ... outspoken opinions on race relations were among his great contributions to the thinking of the world ... Americans tend to forget the names of the men who lost their bid for the presidency.

In 1944 Lindgren won second prize in a competition held by the newly founded publishing house Rabén & Sjögren with her novel Britt-Marie lättar sitt hjärta ( Britt-Marie unburdens her heart ).

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.

* 1944: a few days after the liberation of Paris, Edith Piaf, whose talent is already evident, performs at the Moulin Rouge, with Yves Montand, a newcomer chosen to appear with her.

De Fuentes increased her popularity with such films as La Mujer sin Alma ( 1944 ) and La Devoradora ( 1946 ); the latter making the actress the vamp of Mexican cinema in the 1940s.

Margaret Landon's novel Anna and the King of Siam ( 1944 ) provides a fictionalised look at Anna Leonowens's years at the royal court, developing the abolitionist theme that resonated with her American readership.

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her comedic performance in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), and also received Academy Award nominations for her dramatic roles in Private Worlds ( 1935 ) and Since You Went Away ( 1944 ).

In the summer of 1944, the 25th infantry regiment of the Home Army was formed in the district ; it was the biggest military unit of the Łódź Voivodeship, and it fought against Germans until November 1944.

The 25th was transferred to New Caledonia, 3 February-14 March 1944, for continued training.

In early December, the 21st Brigade took over from the 25th, and throughout late December 1943 and into January 1944 heavy fighting took place with attacks on the two Prothero features, Shaggy Ridge, Green Sniper's Pimple and the Kankiryo Saddle.

His battalion was withdrawn from the line after the expedition for several months of training and refitting, and redeployed in March 1944 in Arakan in the 25th Indian Division, fighting down the Mayu Range towards Akyab.

On 19 July 1944, the Division assumed defensive positions at Aitape, engaged in patrols and reconnaissance at Tadji and along the Drinumor River, 25 July, and took the offensive, 8 August 1944, ending organized resistance on the 25th.

During the campaign to recapture the Philippines, pilots of the 25th Liaison Squadron flew a dozen L-5 aircraft in short 30-minute flights ( Dec. 10-25, 1944 ) delivering supplies ( including a 300-bed hospital ) to the 6, 000 men of the 11th Airborne Division isolated in the mountains of Leyte.

* 25th Bombardment Group, 6 April – 20 June 1944 ( B-24 elements )

A further twelve PR Mk. XVI de Havilland Mosquito aircraft of the 25th Bomb Group ( Reconnaissance ) of the Eighth Air Force were fitted with H2X and beginning in May 1944 flew radar mapping night missions until February 1945.

Between 1942 and 1944 he fought in the Burma Campaign with 11th ( Kenya ) Battalion The Kings African Rifles, part of the 25th East African Brigade in 11th East African Division.

In November 1944, Longoria enlisted in the army and, in late April 1945, shipped out from Fort Ord, CA to the 27th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division, then located in Luzon in the Philippines, leaving behind his wife and four-year-old daughter.

Between 7 June and 8 June 1944, Canadian prisoners were executed by elements of Kurt Meyer's 25th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment at the Abbey Ardennes just to the west of Caen.

* 25th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment Hitlerjugend, Standartenführer Kurt Meyer ( until 14 June 1944 ), Obersturmbannführer Karl-Heinz Milius ( from 14 June 1944 )

Jan 25th, 1944 Truk -> Saipan

Eric Server ( born 14 December 1944 in Santa Monica, California ) is an American television character actor, best known for providing the voice of computer brain Dr. Theopolis in the 1979 TV series, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

* South Atlantic Wing ( Originally 25th AAF Ferrying Wing ; resdeignated South Atlantic Division on 1 July 1944 )