A repeat of an earlier posting for July 1944 battles

Chapter 40 - "Gibbon's Secrets"


Reg's Scrapbook - World War II Time Line - 1944


July 3rd - Soviet forces recapture Minsk.

July 9th - U.S. Army and Marines capture Saipan in the Marianas.  Nearly the whole Japanese Army of occupation fall, about 3,000 Japanese wounded commit suicides; Admiral Nagoemo commits hara-kiri.  The Japanese have lost about 27,000 men; the Americans lost more than 3,000 men.

July 12th - Theodore Roosevelt Jr. falls in Normandy.

July 18th - British forces break-out at Caen in France.

July 19th - The entire government of Japan resigns, Emperor Hirohito asks General Kuniaka Koiso to form a new government.

July 20th - Adolf Hitler is wounded in a morder attempt at his headquarters "Wolfschanze" in Rastenburg in East Prussia.  This was a failed attempt by German conservatives to over throw the Nazi government and kill Hitler.

July 27th - Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering is named as Germany's Mobilization Director, "to adapt in every respect the entire public life to the necessities of total warfare".