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

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 ).

By the summer of 1944, Peleliu Island was occupied by about 11, 000 Japanese of the 14th Infantry Division with Korean and Okinawan laborers.

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.

Soviet soldiers fights in the streets of Jelgava, summer 1944

By the summer of 1944 the USAAF conducted a number of shuttle bombing raids against the Third Reich under the name of Operation Frantic.

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

In the summer of 1940 Williams initiated an affair with Kip Kiernan ( 1918 – 1944 ), a young Canadian dancer he met in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Nice was also heavily bombarded by the American aviation in preparation for the Allied landing in Provence ( 1000 dead or wounded and more than 5600 people homeless ) and famine ensued in the course of the summer of 1944.

Le Havre ’ s destruction culminated during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944.

When its existence was discovered in the summer of 1944, the French declared Diệm to be a subversive and ordered his arrest.

Wallace's naivete discouraged the Democratic Party of the United States from renominating him as vice president later in the summer of 1944, helping lead to the selection of Harry Truman in his place.

By the summer of 1944, the Gestapo was closing in on the conspirators.

This led to permission for Miller to form his 50-piece Army Air Force Band and take it to England in the summer of 1944, where he gave 800 performances.

On October 9, 1981, both parties in the Mermelstein case filed motions for summary judgment in consideration of which Judge Thomas T. Johnson of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County took " judicial notice of the fact that Jews were gassed to death at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland during the summer of 1944.

New York City, summer 1944.

In the summer 1944, during Operation Tempest, units of the Home Army attacked German positions in the town, and on August 2, Rzeszów was in the hands of the Home Army.

After the liberation of France in the summer of 1944, the French executed many of the estimated 25, 000 to 35, 000 miliciens for their collaboration.

The Free French 2nd Armored Division, under General Philippe Leclerc, landed in Normandy, and, in the waning days of summer 1944, they led the drive towards Paris.

The OJC had four hundred members by the summer of 1944, and they also participated in the liberations of Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Grenoble, and Nice.

The second phase from the late summer of July 1940 until the early summer of June 1944 consisted of a stalemate along the English Channel where neither side was strong enough to invade the other's territory, being limited to smaller raids.

During World War II, US Coast Guard LORAN Unit 92, a radio navigation station built in the summer and fall of 1944, and operational from mid-November 1944 until mid-May 1945, was located on Gardner Island's southeast end.

After graduation from Franklin, Lichtenstein enrolled in summer classes at the Art Students League of New York, where he worked under the tutelage of Reginald Marsh.

It wasn't until later that summer when the new President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, made use of this power.

Beginning at the Roosevelt family's vacation home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada ( on the border with Maine ), in the summer of 1921, Franklin is depicted in early scenes as vigorously athletic, enjoying games with his children and sailing his boat.

By the summer of 1950 Randall had arranged for a three year research fellowship that would fund Rosalind Franklin in his laboratory.

By early 1953, it was clear that Franklin would simply drop her DNA work at the end of her fellowship that summer, or even sooner due to illness.

The village of Franklin is also home to the Franklin Stage Company, a nonprofit theater company offering free performances each summer.

In addition, each summer, the Franklin Farmer's Market is held in front of the Franklin Stage Company, featuring local produce, breads, baked goods, herbs and spices, and preserves.

After the summer of 1785, the government of Franklin ( which was by then based in Greeneville ), ruled as a " parallel government " running alongside ( but not harmoniously with ) a re-established North Carolina bureaucracy.

Their son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, would spend his summers on Campobello from the age of one until, as an adult, he acquired a larger property-a 34-room " cottage "-which he would use as a summer retreat until 1939.

A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island's livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the Icelandic population.

The series, filmed at Franklin Canyon Park and the Griffith Park Boys Camp within Griffith Park in Los Angeles, was set at the summer camp Camp Anawanna.

The Cooper School District was merged with nearby Jefferson in 1959 ; the Franklin Township School closed that summer and the junior high school building closed in the 1970s.

The first recorded mountainboarding act occurred in the summer of 1978, when local skateboarder Mike Motta residing in Medford Massachusetts navigated down a hill known as Seven Bumps in Malden Massachusetts on a bet, using a standard Franklin skateboard.

A proposed development project for eastern Maine, envisioned by hydroelectric engineer Dexter Cooper, involving the construction of a tidal harness for electricity generation was initiated in 1935 under U. S. Public Works Administration funding and with the blessing of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose summer home was on nearby Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada.

* 7 Brighton – Franklin service, via the BMT Franklin Avenue Line and BMT Brighton Line, through Stillwell Avenue to Manhattan ( summer Sundays 1924 – 1952 )

For the summer excursion season of 1924, the Franklin Avenue Line was upgraded for the operation of six-car subway trains, and assigned the BMT number 7.

The men spent the autumn of 1852, and the spring and summer of 1853 sledging across the Arctic in search of the Franklin Expedition, as well as the men on HMS Investigator ( Captain Robert McClure ), and HMS Enterprise ( Captain Richard Collinson ).

Aretha Franklin released a cover version of the song in the summer of 1971 that outperformed the original on the charts, charting # 1 R & B for three weeks and # 2 Pop for two weeks.

Since its inception, Franklin and Marshall was an all-male institution, although Franklin College had enrolled female students and women were permitted to attend summer school classes at F & M beginning in 1942.

When the ballpark first opened in 1994, it was called Franklin Quest Field, which the Franklin Quest Company paid $ 1. 4 million for 15 years for the naming rights in the summer of 1993.