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- 3: Allied bombers hit Budapest in Hungary, now occupied by the Germans, and Bucharest in Romania, ahead of the advancing Red Army.
- 4: General Charles de Gaulle takes command of all Free French forces.
- 5: US Air Force bombs Ploesti oil fields in Romania, with heavy losses.
- 6: The Japanese drive on the Plain of Imphal, supposedly halted, proves strong enough to surround British forces at Imphal and Kohima, in India.
- 7: Red Army take Kerch in the eastern Crimea and drive toward Sevastopol
- 12: German troops begin evacuation of the Crimea.
- 14: Crimea and Odessa are liberated by Soviet forces.
- 15: Heavy air raids on Ploesti oil fields by both the RAF and the US Air Force.
- 17: Americans land on Mindanao, in the southern Philippines.
- 17: Japanese launch a major offensive in central China, aiming toward southeast China air bases where American bombers are located. By the next day they have had some successes.
- 17: Yalta, an important port in the southeast Crimea, is taken by the Red Army.
- 21: The Badoglio government in Italy falls and he is quickly asked to form another.
- 21: An air raid on Paris kills a large number of civilians.
- 22: American navy planes carry out widespread attacks in New Guinea. US troops land at Hollandia and Aitape in northern New Guinea. Japanese forces in New Guinea will now be cut off.
- 24: British troops force open the road from Imphal to Kohima in India.
- 27: The Slapton Sands tragedy: American soldiers are killed in a training exercise in preparation for D-Day at Slapton in Devon.
- 30: Vast preparations for D-Day are going on all over southern England.
- 30: American navy air raids continue in the Carolina Islands, including Truk.
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of World War II (1944)
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