Chapter 40 - Reg's Scrapbook - World War II Time Line - 1944

I am going to post the entries made in my Dad's scrapbook as shown in Capter 40 of "Gibbon's Secrets" for the month of September 1944.

September 3rd 1944 - British forces, under Lieutenant General Sir Miles C. Dempsey, captures Brussels - Belgium

September 4th 1944 - An armistice is declared between Finland and the Soviet Union.  Finnish order: Germany must leave Finland by 16 September.

September 5th 1944 - The Soviet Union declares war on Bulgaria.

September 8th 1944 - The Germans launched the first V-2 rocket and hits London.  The V-2 was launched from Wassenaar, a suburb of The Hague, still in German hands.

September 10th 1944 - President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill meet in Quebec, Canada.

September 10th 1944 - American troops capture Luxemburg.

September 11th 1944 - Units of the American Army crosses German border north of Trier.
September 11th 1944 - Patrols of the 2nd British Army cross Dutch border north of Leopoldsburg.

September 17th 1944 - "Operation Market Garden":  Allied paratrooops land inside the Netherlands, the biggest airborne operation ever attempted.

September 20th 1944 - British Guards Armoured Division and U.S. 82nd Airborne Division have taken Nimwegen by a fast attack which captures the important birdge over the Waal; before the Germans could destroy it.