November 7. U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey, becoming the only U.S. president elected to a fourth term. A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, due to excessive speed on a declining hill; 16 are killed, 50 injured.

Dec 24, 2010 · Belgium 12/31/44. (Photo courtesy U.S. Army) (CNSNews.com) - Christmas 1944 – 66 years ago -- was a difficult time for U.S. troops holding Bastogne, Belgium. It came in the midst of the famous Battle of the Bulge, the last-ditch major German offensive in which the German High Command threw thousands of tanks and troops into what was perceived ...

Oct 25, 2022 · Imperial Japan sent its first wave of kamikaze suicide planes to the U.S. Navy off the coast of the Philippines on Oct. 25, 1944. Thousands were killed in the attacks by war's end.

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The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. The election took place during World War II. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term. Roosevelt had become the first president ...

June 6, 1944. The Battle of Normandy: ‘Operation Overlord‘, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland. This operation helps liberate France from Germany and also weakens the Nazi hold on Europe.

Dec 21, 2017 · On June 6, 1944, crowds gathered in NYC’s Times Square, transfixed by the electronic sign bringing first news of D-Day Dec 21, 2017 Goran Blazeski You don’t have to be a history buff to know that D-Day was the start of Operation Overlord–at the time, the biggest invasion in history and undoubtedly the most significant Allied victory in ...

Sep 7, 2016 - The US News started publishing in 1933 as a newspaper. In 1944 it became a magazine and in 1948 it became US News and World Report which still exists today. It is published in NYC today however and started in Washington DC. This is dated May 26, 1944 and the cost was 10 cents. It has a lot of

1944, The United States News, World War Two / By editor. Posted to the right are the U.S. Army casualty figures from December, 1941 through November, 1944. The provided graph points out the following major events that ushered in the larger numbers: • The Philippine collapse. • The American landings in North Africa. • The Battle of ...

Nov 17, 2022 · A US paratrooper who participated in the 1944 D-Day invasion, and lived to reenact the famed World War II landing 75 years later, has died aged 101, his unit -- the 101st Airborne Division -- announced Thursday. "Today we say farewell to a 101st Airborne Legend, Tom Rice," tweeted the US Army ...

August 6, 1945. The United States detonates an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. The bomb explodes at 08.15am local time and instantly kills 80,000 people. By the end of the year, many more thousands …

February 1944. 1st. 15th. 1: U.S. Marines mop up on Roi and Namur in the northern part of the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. 2: The Narva front near the east border of Estonia is formed between the Soviet and German forces. : Germans defeat American troops in the Battle of Cisterna near Anzio.

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22 hours ago · In 1944, Nies was a tail gunner on a […] SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The remains of a World War II airman from Eureka, South Dakota will soon be returning home. Officials with the Defense POW ...