* 1944 – A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill.

* Hansa ( Swedish ship ), a Swedish passenger liner, sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1944

The branch lost its passenger services in June 1944 but lived on as a freight route, and also to serve quarries at Tytherington.

The canal was abandoned in stages between 1944 and 1966 and the British Railways withdrew the passenger service and closed Ashby de la Zouch railway station in September 1964.

In 1971 the passenger operations of the former Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company, which had absorbed lessor Staten Island Railway Company in 1944, were acquired from its parent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company was renamed Staten Island Railroad Corporation, which still exists as a subsidiary of the CSX Corporation.

Volvo's first overhead valve passenger car engine was the straight-4 B4B of 1944 and its descendants, the B14A and B16.

By 1944, Avensa had started passenger flights with Lockheed 10A twins.

The Southern Railway played a vital role in the Second World War, embarking the British Expeditionary Force, during the Dunkirk operations, and supplying Operation Overlord in 1944 ; because the railway was primarily a passenger network, its success was an even more remarkable achievement.

Under Tokyu, the line gained electrification to increase the carrying capacity and in 1944, all passenger sections was electrified.

On 28 February 1944 a descending eastbound freight train loaded with oil and petrol lost its braking power and became a runaway train, finally ploughing into a westbound passenger train at Breifoss, just east of Geilo.

Until Hackney Central's closure in 1944, a passenger connection linked the two stations.

* Tinahely railway station opened on 22 May 1865, closed for passenger and goods traffic on 24 April 1944 and finally closed altogether on 20 April 1945.

This did not prevent risk to his life, however, as in 1944 a Dakota on which he was a passenger was involved in a near miss.

* Shillelagh railway station opened on 22 May 1865, closed for passenger and goods traffic on 24 April 1944 and finally closed altogether on 20 April 1945.

In 1944, the 8. 8 cm KwK 43 and many variations, entered service with the Wehrmacht, and was used as both a tank main gun, and as the PaK 43 anti-tank gun.

*, a battleship in service from 1915 to 1944.

In 1944 obligatory military service was introduced.

When he was conscripted into the Army, he decided to join the " Canadian Officers ' Training Corps ", and he then served with the other conscripts in Canada, since they were not assigned to any overseas military service until after the Conscription Crisis of 1944 ( after the Invasion of Normandy that June.

Hollings served as an officer in the U. S. Army's 323rd and 457th Artillery units from 1942 to 1945, during World War II, and was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in direct support of combat operations from December 13, 1944 to May 1, 1945 in France and Germany.

Albrecht von Hagen, a member of the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on 20 July 1944, was stationed here to be responsible for the courier service between military posts in Berlin and Hitler's secret military headquarters known as the Wolf's Lair.

Since the original 1944 law, the term has come to include other veteran benefit programs created to assist veterans of subsequent wars as well as peacetime service.

Wilhelm Franz Canaris ( 1 January 1887 – 9 April 1945 ) was a German admiral, head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944 and a member of the German Resistance.

Strategic bombing and urban area bombing began in 1944 after the long-range B-29 Superfortress bomber entered service, first deployed from China and thereafter the Mariana Islands.

* German submarine U-123 ( 1940 ), a Type IXB submarine that served in the Second World War until she was taken out of service on 17 June 1944 ; scuttled on 19 August 1944 ; raised and became the French submarine Blaison ( Q165 ); stricken on 18 August 1959

As a result, the commando was reduced in strength until it was declared unfit for further service, and was disbanded in May 1944.

*, an Iowa class battleship in service from 1944 to 1998 ; site of the official Japanese surrender of World War II ; decommissioned in 1998 ; now a floating war memorial at Naval Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

* Model 1944 Carbine: This carbine was introduced into service in late 1944 ( with 50, 000 service-test examples produced in 1943 ) and remained in production until 1955.

He was transferred to the Durham Light Infantry in 1944 but was later declared unfit for service after being diagnosed with a neurological condition that caused partial paralysis.

His college career was interrupted by military service in World War II ( 1944 – 46 ), but he returned to graduate with a degree in English in 1948.

Larry G. Sale ( October 19, 1893-October 27, 1977 ) was the sheriff of Claiborne Parish from 1936 to 1944 and one of his state's most decorated soldiers of World War I. A native of Haynesville, Sale entered the United States Army in 1917 at the age of twenty-two and reached the rank of corporal with service in France.

He served in several senior civil service positions: as technical director of the Ministry of Labour from 1940 to 1944, and as civil service commissioner from 1945 to 1960.

After being banned from playing baseball Cicotte returned to Livonia, Michigan where he managed a service station, served as a Game Warden in the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, then went to work for Ford Motor Company where he retired in 1944.

The Constabulary went on active service with the Philippine Commonwealth Army by virtue of President Sergio Osmeña ’ s Executive Order 21, dated Oct. 28, 1944.

Major ( temporary Lieutenant-Colonel ) Profumo was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) ( military ) " in recognition of gallant and distinguished service in Italy ", on 21 December 1944.

In 1944 Germany introduced into service the Arado Ar 234 jet reconnaissance and bomber, though chiefly used in the former role.

During his war service he was allowed to continue to act in radio, theatre and film, notably The Rats of Tobruk ( 1944 ).

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.