As the Red Army invaded Bulgaria in 1944 and installed a communist government, the armed forces were rapidly forced to reorganise following the Soviet model, and were renamed as the Bulgarian People's Army ( Bulgarska Narodna Armiya, BNA ).

" Feeling the Full Force of a Four Point Offensive: Re-Interpreting The Red Army's 1944 Belorussian and L ' vov-Przemyśl Operations.

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.

After liberation from the fascist occupation on 29 November 1944, several Albanian partisan divisions crossed the border into German-occupied Yugoslavia, where they fought alongside Tito's partisans and the Soviet Red Army in a joint campaign which succeeded in driving out the last pockets of German resistance.

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

Beginning in late 1944, the Red Army occupied much of Eastern Europe during these conferences and the discussions shifted to a more intense focus on the reorganization of postwar Europe.

" On 28 September 1944, the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union ( TASS ) reported that Tito signed an agreement with the U. S. S. R. allowing " temporary entry " of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory which allowed the Red Army to assist in operations in the northeastern areas of Yugoslavia.

* Order of the Red Banner, six times (№ 47-26 June 1919, № 629 / 2 от апреля 1921 года, № 27 / 3-2 December 1925, № 5 / 4-22 February 1930, № 1 / 5-3 November 1944, № 1 / 6 от 24 June 1948 )

* Order of the Red Banner, three times ( 1924, 1942 and 1944 )

* 1944 – World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.

* 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.

On 20 August 1944 the Soviet Red Army crossed the border into Romania.

On 31 August 1944 the Soviet Red Army entered Bucharest.

In 1944, amendments to the 1936 Soviet Constitution established separate branches of the Red Army for each Soviet Republic.

* 1944 – Red Robbins, American basketball player ( d. 2009 )

The island was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941 ( Operation Beowulf ); German troops remained there until expelled by the Red Army in the Moonzund Landing Operation in October and November 1944.

After the Red Army recaptured Lviv in the Lvov – Sandomierz Offensive of 1944, Banach returned to the University and helped re-establish it after the war years.

At the end of 1944 an additional 30, 000-60, 000 Poles were moved into the city after Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising In February 1945 the Soviet Red Army approached the city.

Dresden was attacked seven times between 1944 and 1945, and was occupied by the Red Army after German capitulation.

On August 20, 1944, a c. 3, 400, 000-strong Red Army began a major summer offensive codenamed Jassy-Kishinev Operation.

The Soviet Union regained the region in 1944, and the Red Army occupied Romania.

In 1944 thirty Belarusians ( known as Čorny Kot ( Black Cat ) and personally led by Michał Vituška ) were airdropped by the Luftwaffe behind the lines of the Red Army, which had already liberated Belarus during Operation Bagration.

Among others, the Tallinn Military Cemetery had the majority of gravestones from 1918 – 1944 destroyed by the Soviet authorities, and this graveyard became reused by the Red Army.

On 22 September 1944, as the last German units pulled out of Tallinn, the city was re-occupied by the Soviet Red Army.

* 1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.

* 1944 – Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

In the summer of 1944, after having crushed the Nazi defence around Iaşi and Chişinău, the Soviet Army was approaching the Balkans and Bulgaria.

He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe ; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942 – 43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944 – 45, from the Western Front.

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 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.

* 1944 – World War II: Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U. S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.

* 1944 – World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.

It was set up, not by the traditional German Army, but by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler on October 18, 1944.

In late 1944, Hitler appointed Himmler commander-in-chief of Army Group Upper Rhine.

On 6 June 1944 the Allies landed in Normandy ; on 15 August Allied forces landing in Provence included 260, 000 men of the French First Army.

By November 1944, they had thrown out the Germans, being with Yugoslavia the only East European nations to do so without any assistance from the Soviet Army.

" He went to Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High School, then served as a writer for a military newspaper in the U. S. Army from 1944 to 1946.

Alexander remained in command of 15th Army Group, as well as its successor, the Allied Armies in Italy, for most of the Italian Campaign, until December 1944, when he relinquished his command to Clark and took over as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces Headquarters, responsible for all military operations in the Mediterranean Theatre.

In 1944, the Soviet Union made significant advances across Eastern Europe toward Germany, including Operation Bagration, a massive offensive in Belorussia against the German Army Group Centre.

* 1944 – World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1, 500 casualties, including 500 killed.

* 1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.