LYCOS RETRIEVER 
1944: War
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June 4th 1944 -ROME ITALY- This painting was commisioned by the US pentagon. June 4 1944 is the day the Allied Forces liberated the city of Rome during World War 2. It is a tribute to all those who have served their country, and a reminder of the blessing and the price of freedom.
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The 1944 baseball season was the peak -- or, to look at it another way, the nadir -- of wartime baseball. The National League didn't embarrass itself; the Cardinals won their third straight pennant behind respectable ballplayers like Marty Marion, Walker Cooper, Johnny Hopp, and especially Stan Musial.
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On November 25, 1944, the first mass kamikaze attack occurred on the ships of the Third Fleet steaming off Luzon, Philippines. Six suicide craft plunged into four aircraft carriers — USS Hancock (CV-19); USS Essex (CV-9); USS Cabot (CVL-28); and USS Intrepid (CV-11). Dayofthekamikaze.com is dedicated to the Americans and Japanese killed in that little-known battle, and seeks to help young adults understand what happened and how World War II is relevant to their lives today.
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August 1, 1944: Warsaw Ghetto; Police resistance fighters take force against their German occupiers. Russian forces approach the Vistual. 16 months after the ghetto uprising. Coming out of hiding, and joins forces with other bands of survivors, Jews join in the battle. Many die.
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For a seaman in Enterprise in the last days of 1944, it was clear that the Allies had made great strides during the preceding year: that the writing was on the wall for Germany and Japan. What he could not know was that the coming year would see the most fierce fighting, and the highest casualties, of the entire Pacific conflict. Nor could he know that 1945 would be the year that Enterprise would finally be removed forcibly from the war.
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April 6, 1944: Ain, France; 43 Jewish children are arrested. They are sent to Lyon, then to Drancy, then to Birkenau. Same day; 3,000 Germans under take a dawn-to-dusk search for Jews hiding in Warsaw. 75 were found and executed a few days later.
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