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1944-05-10USS Cod sinks Karukaya

US Submarine Cod attacks a convoy of 32 freighters. She sinks a freighter and the Japanese destroyer Karukaya before being driven off by a massive depth charge barrage.

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1944-05-078th AF attacks Berlin

One thousand, five hundred bombers from the 8th air force attack Berlin.

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1944-04-28Lyme Bay

946 soldiers are killed and 200 wounded when nine German E-Boats based in Cherbourg raid a convoy of LSTs that were part of a D-Day training exercise.

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1944-04-22Operation Persecution

Allied and American troops undertook an amphibious landing at Aitape in New Guinea. The operation was designed to isolate the Japanese 18th Army at Wewak.

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1944-04-04Bucharest Bombed

Three thousand civilians are killed when allied planes bomb Bucharest.

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1944-04-01Schaffhausen Bombed

The US air force accidentally strayed in neutral Swiss airspace and bombed Schaffhausen. About a hundred Swiss civilians were killed in the raid. The US government offered a million dollars in reparations to the Swiss government.

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1944-03-24The Great Escape

76 prisoners of Stalag Luft III escape. 73 are subsequently recaptured and 50 are murdered by the Gestapo on Hitler's orders.

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1944-03-24Ardeatine massacre

335 civilians are led to a system of caves a rural suburb of Rome and murdered by SS troops. The massacre was in reprisal for a partisan attack on the previous day.

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1944-03-091944-03-17Hill 700, Bougainville

Japanese troops launch a counter offensive on US troops defending Hill 700, Cannon Hill, and Hill 260. The counterattack was defeated with heavy losses for the Japanese army. The Japanese withdrew into the interior, north and south ends of the island.

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1944-02-281944-05-18Operation Brewer

A series of battles in the New Guinea campaign in which the United States Army's 1st Cavalry Division occupied the Japanese-held Admiralty Islands.

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