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.

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.

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

In August 1944 at Mortain, stout defense and counterattacks against the German flanks by American and Canadian forces closed the Falaise pocket.

The Bronze Star Medal was established by Executive Order 9419, 4 February 1944 ( superseded by Executive Order 11046, 24 August 1962, as amended by Executive Order 13286, 28 February 2003 ).

Documents executed since 4 August 1944 in connection with recommendations for the award of decorations of higher degree than the Bronze Star Medal cannot be used as the basis for an award under this paragraph.

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.

This government was later removed by the Free French Forces in August 1944.

On 5 August 1944 the Island Queen schooner disappeared with the loss of all 56 passengers and 11 crew.

In August 1944 Hitler authorised him to restructure the organisation and administration of the Waffen-SS, the army, and the police services.

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.

General Leclerc liberated Paris between 19 and 25 August 1944.

After August 1944 and the Liberation of Paris, he wrote Anti-Semite and Jew.

From August 1944 Fuchs worked in the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos, New Mexico, under Hans Bethe.

The Luxembourg unit landed in Normandy on 6 August 1944.

In December 1944, Beria's NKVD was assigned to supervise the Soviet atomic bomb project (" Task No. 1 "), which built and tested a bomb by 29 August 1949.

Soon after Le Mans was liberated by the U. S. 79th and 90th Infantry Divisions on 8 August 1944, engineers of the Ninth Air Force IX Engineering Command began construction of a combat Advanced Landing Ground outside of the town.

Boxing contests were held later on 14 June 1943, 12 August 1944, 4 October 1951 and 10 September 1952.

The studio originally functioned as a center for the Resistance movement in French radio, which in August 1944 was responsible for the first broadcasts in liberated Paris.

With work like this going on, Germany's enemies naturally took note of the various Opel plants and, starting in August 1944, began visiting them by air.

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Between 21 August and 7 October 1944 the Dumbarton Oaks Conference was held, which among other things created an international court attached to the United Nations, to succeed the Permanent Court of International Justice.

LeMay and SAC ’ s continuing efforts to assume greater control over nuclear strategy were vindicated on August 11, 1960, when Eisenhower approved a plan to create the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff ( dominated by SAC ) to prepare the National Strategic Target List and the Single Integrated Operation Plan ( SIOP ) for nuclear war.

Precise figures are not available, but the fire-bombing campaign against Japan, directed by LeMay between March 1945 and the Japanese surrender in August 1945, may have killed more than 500, 000 Japanese civilians and left five million homeless.

On August 20, LeMay arrived to breathe new energy into the XX Bomber Command.

He was appointed vice chief of staff of the U. S. Air Force in August 1964, and assumed the position of Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force on 1 February 1965, relieving General Curtis E. LeMay.

General Wolfe's replacement was Major General Curtis E. LeMay, who arrived in India on 29 August.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened on Broadway on May 8, 1962 at the Alvin Theatre, and then transferred to the Mark Hellinger Theatre and the Majestic Theatre, where the show closed on August 29, 1964, after 964 performances and 8 previews.

Charles J. Urstadt, the first Chairman and CEO of the BPCA, noted in an August 19, 2007 op-ed piece in the New York Post that the aggregate figure of funds transferred to the City of New York is above $ 1. 4 billion, with the BPCA continuing to contribute $ 200 million a year.

Regardless, the territory was formally transferred to Cameroon on 14 August 2008.

CERT and Citizen Corps were transferred to the Office of Domestic Preparedness ( now the Office of Grants and Training ) in August 2004.

At the end of August the Assembly ordered Abancourt and the other prisoners at Orléans to be transferred to Paris with an escort commanded by Claude Fournier l ' Americain.

Louis was posted as midshipman to the battlecruiser HMS Lion in July 1916 and, after seeing action in August 1916, transferred to the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth during the closing phases of World War I.

# The Law Concerning the Highest State Office of the Reich ( August 1, 1934 ) prescribed that upon the death of the incumbent president, that office would be merged with the office of the chancellor, and that the competencies of the former should be transferred to the " Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler ", as the law stated.

Upon Hindenburg's death on 2 August 1934, Hitler's cabinet passed a law proclaiming the presidency vacant and transferred the role and powers of the head of state to Hitler as Führer und Reichskanzler ( leader and chancellor ).

In August 1993, Bakker was transferred to a minimum security federal prison in Jesup, Georgia, and was subsequently granted parole in July 1994, after serving almost five years of his sentence.

Heydrich became the President of Interpol ( then under Nazi control ) on 24 August 1940, and its headquarters were transferred to Berlin.

On August 25, 2010, the National Archives announced that the Nuremberg Laws would be transferred from the Huntington Library to their collection.

During August 2005, Israel forcibly transferred all Israeli settlers ( 10, 000 ) from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, as part of its Unilateral Disengagement Plan.

He was assigned to the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, expecting to be transferred shortly to the Bureau of Engineering in Washington D. C. After a trip overland across China, Burma, and India, by air across the Mideast to Athens and then London, and by ship to the U. S., Rickover arrived in Washington and took up his duties as assistant chief of the Electrical section of the Bureau of Engineering on 15 August 1939.

Following a transitional period, the right to operate the two tram businesses was officially transferred from the government to the private sector under franchise agreements on 29 August 1999.

Haig transferred authority for the offensive to General Plumer, the Second Army commander on 25 August and moved the northern boundary of the Second Army boundary close to the Ypres – Roulers railway.

The court permitted the production to go on at the Imperial, beginning on 1 August 1879, and it transferred to the Olympic Theatre in September.

The territories formally claimed by the puppet state were first seized in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945, and then formally transferred to Chinese administration in the following year.

141 ) to provide military, economic, and technical assistance to friendly nations in the interest of international peace and security, but was abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 7 of 1953, effective August 1, 1953, and its functions were transferred to the Foreign Operations Administration.

The play was successfully revived by English director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre on 11 September 1992 and later transferred to the Aldwych Theatre on 25 August 1993 and then to the Garrick Theatre on 24 October 1995.

Nevertheless, Mary transferred her claim to Hungary to her eldest son, Charles Martel on 6 January 1292, who was also the heir to the Kingdom of Naples, but he was never able to enforce his claim against King Andrew III and died on 19 August 1295.

Kaller could not appoint the four new canons for the chapter any more but was expelled the next day, transferred by lorry to Warsaw, accompanied by Borowiec, who also joined him on the train to Poznań on 18 August.

On August 31, he was transferred to federal prison to begin serving a life sentence for his crimes.

In August 2007, he was transferred from state custody to Federal custody, as Georgia officials decided that al-Amin is too high-profile an inmate for the Georgia prison system to handle.

St. Jones County was transferred to William Penn on August 24, 1682, and became part of Penn's newly chartered Delaware Colony.