October 1944

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The following events occurred in October 1944:

October 1, 1944 (Sunday)[edit]

  • The Battle of Tornio began between German and Finnish forces.
  • Operation Undergo ended in Allied victory.
  • Putten raid happened from October 1st to 2nd 660 men were taken away after a failed attack on a German official in November 1944
  • After a four-day battle, the U.S. Fifth Army captured Monte Battaglia on the Gothic Line in Italy, helped by the Italian partisans.[1] The II and the IV Corp of the Army launch an offensive towards Bologna, that will end in a month with heavy losses and a limited gain of ground.
  • Richard McCreery replaced Oliver Leese as Commander-in-Chief of the Eighth Army.
  • The St. Louis Browns won the American League pennant on the final day of the season by beating the New York Yankees 5-2. The Browns, who had never won a pennant in franchise history and would not win another as a St. Louis team, were helped immensely by the wartime roster depletion across baseball that happened to affect them less than the other ballclubs. The average major league team had ten 4-F players on its roster, but the Browns had eighteen.[2][3]
  • Died: Rudolf Schmundt, 48, German Army officer (died of wounds sustained in the 20 July bomb plot)

October 2, 1944 (Monday)[edit]

October 3, 1944 (Tuesday)[edit]

October 4, 1944 (Wednesday)[edit]

October 5, 1944 (Thursday)[edit]

October 6, 1944 (Friday)[edit]

October 7, 1944 (Saturday)[edit]

October 8, 1944 (Sunday)[edit]

October 9, 1944 (Monday)[edit]

October 10, 1944 (Tuesday)[edit]

October 11, 1944 (Wednesday)[edit]

October 12, 1944 (Thursday)[edit]

October 13, 1944 (Friday)[edit]

October 14, 1944 (Saturday)[edit]

  • German forces withdrew from Niš.[32]
  • In Italy, the American Fifth Army had some success on the Apennine front; a South African division entered Grizzana, and the German Army left Livergnano. In Romagna, the Polish II Corps went into action.[33]
  • The German and Fascist troops reconquered Domodossola, which for forty days had been the capital of an independent republic, ruled by the partisans and the antifascist parties.[34]
  • The Canadian frigate Magog was torpedoed and damaged in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by German submarine U-1223 and rendered a constructive total loss.
  • "I'll Walk Alone" by Dinah Shore hit #1 on the Billboard singles charts.
  • Born: Udo Kier, actor, in Cologne, Germany
  • Died: Erwin Rommel, 52, German field marshal (allowed to commit suicide by the Nazis rather than face trial and reprisals against his family for his knowledge of the July Bomb Plot)

October 15, 1944 (Sunday)[edit]

October 16, 1944 (Monday)[edit]

October 17, 1944 (Tuesday)[edit]

  • The Battle of Leyte began when American forces and Filipino guerrillas under the command of General Douglas MacArthur launched an amphibious invasion of the Gulf of Leyte in the Philippines.
  • Rival partisans in Athens began fighting each other.[10]
  • Contact was lost with the USS Escolar. The American submarine was probably lost to a mine in the Yellow Sea.
  • Died: Pavel Haas, 45, Czech composer (murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp); Hans Krása, 44, Czech composer (murdered at Auschwitz)

October 18, 1944 (Wednesday)[edit]

October 19, 1944 (Thursday)[edit]

October 20, 1944 (Friday)[edit]

October 21, 1944 (Saturday)[edit]

  • The Battle of Aachen ended in American victory when the last German garrison in Aachen surrendered.
  • Axis forces established the Syrmian Front, a line of defense on the Eastern Front northwest of Belgrade.
  • Red Army soldiers carried out the Nemmersdorf massacre in East Prussia.
  • Despite heavy rain, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt rode in an open car through 51 miles (82 km) of New York City streets on his way to make a speech at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. With a little over two weeks left to go in the presidential election campaign, Roosevelt's ride through the city in the pouring rain without any proper covering was an attempt to show that he was still healthy.[44]

October 22, 1944 (Sunday)[edit]

October 23, 1944 (Monday)[edit]

October 24, 1944 (Tuesday)[edit]

October 25, 1944 (Wednesday)[edit]

October 26, 1944 (Thursday)[edit]

October 27, 1944 (Friday)[edit]

October 28, 1944 (Saturday)[edit]

October 29, 1944 (Sunday)[edit]

October 30, 1944 (Monday)[edit]

October 31, 1944 (Tuesday)[edit]

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