During the Second World War, as an important industrial centre, the city was heavily bombed and several skirmishes took place in September 1944 between the American troops and the retreating German forces.

At the end of 1944, the German army was retreating on both fronts, but not yet defeated.

* Others fled with the retreating German army in 1944.

In operation as a thermal hospital in 1927, the building was blown up by retreating German forces in 1944.

After the three year main conflicts, when the Zamboangueño guerrillas was retreating by the Japanese in the main province before the liberation of local Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary units on 1944 and the American troops on the U. S. Armed Forces on 1945 before the Battle of Zamboanga.

In Northern Norway which was at the same time invaded by Soviet forces in pursuit of the retreating German army in 1944, the Germans also undertook a scorched earth policy, destroying every building that could offer shelter and thus interposing a belt of " scorched earth " between themselves and the allies.

The Huitong bridge was blown by the retreating Chinese army and the river became the frontline from 1942 to 1944.

The city was heavily damaged by Allied bombing during the war and the port installations were blown up by the retreating Germans in 1944.

In November 1944 the retreating German army held the French First Army before the town until French Commandos made a successful night attack on the Salbert Fort.

Moro guerrilla fighters invaded around the province of Cotabato and help them of all local force of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and pre-war Philippine Constabulary 10th Infantry Regiments by fought against the Imperial Japanese Army until 1944, the Moro guerrillas was retreating Japanese troops before liberated.

The conflicts and insurgencies on 1944 was aftermath, many guerrillas and Hukbalahap resistance was downfall retreating Japanese Imperial Armed Forces and starts the liberation on 1945 was battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrilla groups with the Japanese Imperial forces.

By late 1944 the army group had pushed northward through Italy, capturing Rome, and driving the retreating Axis forces into Northern Italy.

In August 1944, as he boarded the German ship to leave with the retreating Nazi army, he died of a heart attack while the ship was still at the harbor.

The Red Army entered Kolubuszowa in July 1944 and local Polish AK units ( as part of Operation Tempest ) attacked retreating German units ; several dozen partisans died in the operation.

Later in the war, three years after the Germans attacked the Soviet Union, Festung Warschau again entered German vocabularly, as between September 1944 and January 1945, the retreating Germans tried to establish a defense in the city.

Originally it was inaugurated in 1895, but the retreating German troops destroyed it in 1944.

Most Jews from the PCdR category were held in Vapniarka, where improper feeding caused an outbreak of paralysis, and in Rîbniţa, where some 50 were victims of the authorities ' criminal negligence and were shot by retreating German troops in March 1944.

By early December 1944, the regiment was operating near Ravenna fighting German troops who were retreating North through Italy and on the night of 3 December, the regiment began their attack on the town of Faenza.

After two and a half years in the woods, in July 1944, the Bielskis learned that the Germans, overrun by the Red Army, were retreating back toward Berlin.

In 1944, retreating German troops destroyed its four-latticed mast antenna system which was used in conjunction with the existing 900 kilowatt ( kW ) transmitter.

While in service with the Royal Air Force during World War II, Clayton shot his first film, the documentary Naples is a Battlefield ( 1944 ), representing the problems in the reconstruction of Naples, the first great city liberated in World War II, ruined after Allied bombing and destruction caused by the retreating Nazis.

The local airport, the Eleuteri, near Castiglione del Lago, was once one of the main aviation schools in Italy, with elegant buildings that were destroyed by retreating German troops in the summer of 1944.

Ivalo was severely damaged during the Lapland War ( 1944 – 1945 ) by retreating German troops led by Generaloberst Lothar Rendulic ; the village was subsequently extensively rebuilt.

This applied when under attack by the Germans ; subsequently Allied forces entered Rome in June 1944 and retreating German forces also declared Florence and Chieti " open cities ".

* 1944 – World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.

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.

The Germans never achieved the kind of fire concentrations their enemies were capable of by 1944.

Working closely with Winston Churchill of Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, Roosevelt sent his forces into the Pacific against Japan, then into North Africa against Italy and Germany, and finally into Europe starting with France and Italy in 1944 against the Germans.

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.

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

Ghent was occupied by the Germans in both World Wars but escaped severe destruction and was liberated by the British 7th Desert Rats Armoured Division on September 6, 1944.

The Germans killed more than a hundred thousand Poles when suppressing the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.

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.

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On 25 May 1944, he managed to evade the Germans after the Raid on Drvar ( Operation Rösselsprung ), an airborne assault outside his Drvar headquarters in Bosnia.

In 1944, as the Germans were driven from Soviet soil, Beria was in charge of dealing with the various ethnic minorities accused of collaboration with the invaders, including the Chechens, the Ingush, the Crimean Tatars and the Volga Germans.

It was quickly taken by the Germans during the Battle of Maastricht in May 1940, but on 14 September 1944 it was also the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.

Unfortunately not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about five months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60's and 70's who finished what the Americans and Germans started.

In 1944, as the Soviets moved in, the Germans liquidated the ghetto and what had by then come to be known as the " Fort of Death ", and the prisoners were dispersed to other camps.

Despite all this, the Germans and Allies clashed on San Marino's soil in late September 1944 at the Battle of Monte Pulito ; Allied troops occupied San Marino after that, but only stayed for two months before returning the Republic's sovereignty.

In 1944 the Germans ran a false flag sabotage infiltration, Operation Grief.

In July 1944, Vilnius was taken from the Germans by the Soviet Army and the Polish Armia Krajowa ( see Operation Ostra Brama and the Vilnius Offensive ).

In January 1944, the Germans told Pujol that they believed a large-scale invasion of Europe was imminent and asked to be kept informed.