1944

1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.

Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

US Army troops landing at Anzio during Operation Shingle , late January 1944.
The Abbey of Monte Cassino in ruins after being destroyed by Allied bombing , February 1944.
The March 1944 eruption of Mount Vesuvius .
The prime ministers of Britain and the four major dominions at the 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference , May 1, 1944.
Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day .
LVTs heading for shore on June 15, 1944, during the Battle of Saipan .
Aftermath of the failed 20 July plot to kill Hitler.
Soviet soldiers fight in the streets of Jelgava , summer 1944.
American medics helping injured soldier in France, 1944.
Waves of paratroopers land in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden in September 1944.
Henry Larsen becomes the first person successfully to navigate the Northwest Passage in both directions, July–October 1944.
American troops advance towards San Jose on Leyte Island, October 20, 1944.
Light aircraft carrier USS Princeton afire, east of Luzon , October 24, 1944.
Volkssturm founded in October 1944.
Battle of Leyte begins – General MacArthur returns to the Philippines, October 20, 1944.
Battle of Leyte Gulf between United States and Japan , October 23, 1944.
'Athenian Liberty' flag raised, on the Acropolis of Athens on the liberation of the city on 12 October 1944
Victims of the Malmedy massacre