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

The Bronze Star Medal was established by Executive Order 9419, 4 February 1944 ( superseded by Executive Order 11046, 24 August 1962, as amended by Executive Order 13286, 28 February 2003 ).

General George C. Marshall, in a memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt dated 3 February 1944, wrote

President Roosevelt authorized the Bronze Star Medal by Executive Order 9419 dated 4 February 1944, retroactive to 7 December 1941.

This authorization was announced in War Department Bulletin No. 3, dated 10 February 1944.

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof ( July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944 ) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, seen during his tour of the Arakan Front in February 1944.

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

Jack Laurence Chalker ( December 17, 1944 – February 11, 2005 ) was an American science fiction author.

Robert Jonathan Demme ( born February 22, 1944 ) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter.

Kaj Munk from the De Wervelwind, February 1944.

* 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 Suvorov, 1st class (№ 125-22 February 1944 )

The failure to maximize production immediately after the failures in the Soviet Union and North Africa ensured the Luftwaffe's effective defeat in the period of September 1943 – February 1944.

His 50-year old secretary Mahadev Desai died of a heart attack 6 days later and his wife Kasturba died after 18 months imprisonment on 22 February 1944 ; six weeks later Gandhi suffered a severe malaria attack.

Wybicki's original manuscript was in the hands of his descendants until February 1944, when it was lost in Wybicki's great-great-grandson, Johann von Roznowski's home in Charlottenburg during the Allied bombing of Berlin.

He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency.

On February 6, 1944, she christened Atlanta in Camden, New Jersey.

On February 22, 1944, Nijmegen was heavily bombed by American planes, causing great damage to the city centre.

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 1943 an international panel met to consider " the question of the Permanent Court of International Justice ", meeting from 20 March to 10 February 1944.

Born in 1884 in French Guiana this descendant of African slaves was a key figure together with René Pleven in the organization by the De Gaulle government of the Brazzaville Conference of 1944, which took place between the January 30 and February 8, 1944 and which did set out the new direction of French colonial policies after World War II.

* French forces: troops sent within the framework of Operation Unicorn and under UN mandate ( United Nations Operation in Côte d ' Ivoire ), 3000 men in February 2003 and 4600 in November 2004 ;

Alexander presided over Montgomery's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, for which Alexander was elevated to a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and, after the Anglo-American forces from Operation Torch and the Eighth Army converged in Tunisia in February 1943, they were brought under the unified command of a newly-formed 18th Army Group headquarters, commanded by Alexander and reporting to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean at the Allied Forces Headquarters.

1, 000 Alpini troops were deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom ( OEF ) in February 2003.

For Adolf Hitler, the circumstance was no dilemma, because the Drang nach Osten (" Drive towards the East ") policy secretly remained in force, culminating on 18 December 1940 with Directive No. 21, Operation Barbarossa, approved on 3 February 1941, and scheduled for mid-May 1941.

* February 29 – WWII – Battle of Los Negros and Operation Brewer: The Admiralty Islands are invaded by U. S. forces.

* February 11 – Operation Cerberus A flotilla of Kriegsmarine ships dash from Brest through the English Channel to northern ports ; the British fail to sink any one of them.

* February 28 – Operation Gunnerside: 6 Norwegians led by Joachim Ronneberg successfully attack the heavy water plant Vemork.

Nearly a half dozen missiles fired at bunkers by Sheridans during Operation Desert Storm ( Iraq / Kuwait ) in January and February 1991.

In February 2004 the United Nations established the United Nations Operation in Côte d ' Ivoire ( UNOCI )

Britain's first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941 when, what was then known as II Special Air Service ( some 37 men of 500 trained in No. 2 Commando plus three Italian interpreters ), parachuted into Italy to blow up an aqueduct in a daring raid named Operation Colossus.

Britain ’ s first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941, when ' X ' Troop, No 11 Special Air Service Battalion ( which was formed from No 2 Commando and subsequently became 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ) dropped into southern Italy from converted Whitley bombers flying from Malta and demolished a span of the aqueduct near Tragino in a daring night raid named Operation Colossus.

A Würzburg radar site on the coast of France was attacked by a company of British paratroopers from 2 Battalion, Parachute Regiment, commanded by Major John Frost, in Operation Biting on February 27, 1942.

In February 1967 Operation Junction City was launched, it would be the largest operation the Coalition Force would assemble.

The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II.

The Battle of Iwo Jima ( 19 February – 26 March 1945 ), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.

A young German Sommekämpfer in 1916On 24 February 1917, the German army made the strategic scorched earth withdrawal ( Operation Alberich ) from the Somme battlefield to the Siegfriedstellung ( Hindenburg Line ), thereby shortening the front line they had to occupy.

February 28: Operation Hot Winter is launched in response to rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

In February 1965 he lobbied against escalating aerial bombardment of North Vietnam in the aftermath of Pleiku, arguing in a letter to the president that Operation Rolling Thunder would lead to a need for " vastly strengthened.

On 18 February 1944, British airplanes bombed the prison in Amiens as part of Operation Jericho.

During the Cold War, a general and various support personnel from the base were airborne 24-hours a day on an EC-135 from February 3, 1961 to July 24, 1990 in Operation Looking Glass, creating an airborne command post in case of war.

* Sikeston is also home to the Missouri National Guard unit Company C 1140th Engineer Battalion which took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom from February 2004 until February 2005.

This commenced in late February 1991 and over the course of the ‘ hundred hours ’ combat of Operation Desert Storm, these soldiers carried out their orders and executed their missions that resulted in the crushing of Saddam Hussein ’ s Republican Guards.