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unusual facts about Arakan Campaign 1943–1944



203rd General Hospital

After the liberation of Paris in August, 1944, the 203rd was assigned to a hospital plant in the Parisian region, where they administered and staffed in Garches, the largest medical establishment of the European Theater of Operations.

30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS

Soldiers of the division together with an unspecified Italian unit killed 40 civilians in Étobon, France on 27 September 1944, in retaliation of the support given by villagers to the French partisans.

450th Bombardment Group

The 450th contributed to the intensive Allied campaign against the enemy aircraft industry during Big Week (20–25 February 1944) by attacking factories at Steyr and Regensburg, being awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for braving the hazards of bad weather, enemy fighters, and flak to bombard a Messerschmitt aircraft manufacturing factory at Regensburg on 25 February.

501st Heavy Panzer Battalion

Throughout 1944, the 501st engaged in several battles, including Vitebsk and Gorodok.

AAC Middle Wallop

After D-Day, both the 67th RG moved to its Advanced Landing Ground at Le Molay-Littry (ALG A-9) and IX FC Headquarters moved to Les Obeaux, France in late June 1944 ending the USAAF presence at Middle Wallop.

Antek

Antek Rozpylacz ("Antek the Arsonist"), the nom-de-guerre of Antoni Szczęsny Godlewski (1923 in Warsaw – 1944, in Warsaw)

Anthony Ross

Born in New York City, he may be best remembered for being the first to play the character of "the Gentleman Caller" in the original 1944 production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.

Arthur Lane

Arthur Bliss Lane (1894–1956), United States Ambassador to Poland, 1944–1947

Arthur Stark

William Sclater, Dr Stark's co-author of The Birds of South Africa, died in 1944 from injuries sustained from a V-1 flying bomb dropped in London.

Ashe County, North Carolina

Helen Keller visited an Ashe County native, Marvin Osborne, in 1944 when he was wounded in France in World War Two.

Battle of Tornio

Later on 6 October 1944 first small squadron from Finnish Navy consisting of gunboats Hämeenmaa and Uusimaa and patrol boats VMV 15 and VMV 16 arrived to the location to both provide anti-aircraft fire and to suppress German battery located at Laivaniemi within firing distance from the port which had kept harassing the Finnish effort to unload their transports.

Battle of Vuosalmi

After the Soviets saw that they had failed in the Battle of Tali-Ihantala against the Finnish defenders in the late June and early July 1944, they tried to break the Finnish positions in Vuosalmi (now Druzhnoye) and encircle the southern part of the Finnish forces in the Karelian Isthmus.

Bretton Woods

The Bretton Woods system, the international monetary system created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference

Chemins de fer du Jura

The Chemins de fer du Jura (CJ), the railways of the Jura canton in northern Switzerland, came about as the result of an amalgamation, in 1944, of four independent companies connecting Porrentruy to Bonfol, Saignelégier to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Glovelier to Saignelégier and Tavannes to Tramelan and Le Noirmont.

Donald Cochrane

In 1933 he was elected to Marrickville Municipal Council, of which he was mayor in 1944 (he would serve on council until 1957).

East Turkestan Republic

Second East Turkestan Republic (1944–1949), Soviet-backed Turkic people's republic in northern Xinjiang

Elise Harney

Then, the newly formed Milwaukee Chicks and Minneapolis Millerettes entered the league in 1944 and played their home games at American Association ball parks during the time periods the Milwaukee Brewers and Minneapolis Millers male teams were on road trips.

Esslinger

Hartmut Esslinger (born 1944), German-American industrial designer and inventor

Gakovo

In 1944, Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav partisans expelled Axis forces from the region and village was included into new socialist Yugoslavia.

George Boyce

George W. G. Boyce, Jr. (?–1944), United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient

German submarine U-547

U-547 was damaged by a mine on 13 August 1944 in the Gironde (where the mouths of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers merge), near Pauillac in western France; she then retraced part of the route of her first patrol, arriving at Marviken in Kristiansand on 29 September and moving on to Flensburg on 4 October.

Gil Dodds

On March 11, 1944, Dodds broke the world indoor record for the mile run at the annual Knights of Columbus track meet in Madison Square Garden, New York City.

Granville Van Dusen

Granville Van Dusen (born March 16, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota) is an American stage, screen, and voice actor who portrayed Race Bannon in the 1986 television series The New Adventures of Jonny Quest, Jonny's Golden Quest, Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects, and eight episodes of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Gustav Albrecht Alfred Franz Friedrich Otto Emil Ernst, 28 February 1907 – 1944 (declared legally dead 29 November 1969) was Prince and Head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg.

Heaven Is Round the Corner

Heaven is Round the Corner is a 1944 British musical film directed by McClean Rogers with Will Fyffe, Leni Lynn, Leslie Perrins and Austin Trevor.

Heinz Strüning

At about 6 pm on the evening of 24 December 1944 his Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 (Werknummer 740 162—factory number) G9+CT was shot down by 10-kill ace F/L R.D. Doleman and F/L D.C. Bunch of No. 157 Squadron RAF in a Royal Air Force Mosquito Intruder while he tried to attack a Lancaster bomber over Cologne.

Johnny Vander Meer

On March 3, 1944, Vander Meer joined the United States Navy and was stationed at Sampson Naval Training Station in New York where he would play for the Navy baseball team.

Lucky Cowboy

Lucky Cowboy is a 1944 American two-reel western film directed by Josef Berne using a screenplay by Robert Stephen Brode.

Martine Blanc

Martine Blanc (born 16 September 1944 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme) is a French author and illustrator of ten books for children including The story of Timothy, the Two Hoots series in collaboration with Helen Cresswell, and All about Jesus.

Max Sørensen

During his tenure there, he worked as Attaché Embassy in Bern and in 1944 as Secretary of Legation in London.

Mayor Murphy

Thomas J. Murphy, Jr. (born August 15, 1944), mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Memphis Belle

The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a 1944 documentary film about the real aircraft and crew on its final mission

Menčík

Olga Menchik (1908, Moscow – 1944, Kent), a British female chess master

Merle Hodge

Merle Hodge (born 1944) is a Trinidadian novelist and critic.

Mildred Scheel

The family left the bombed-out Cologne in 1944, and moved to Amberg.

Mistel

As part of Operation Iron Hammer in late 1943 and early 1944, Mistels were selected to carry out key raids against Soviet weapons-manufacturing facilities—specifically, electricity-generating power stations around Moscow and Gorky.

Mohammed Alim Khan

After four days of fighting, the emir’s citadel (Arc) was destroyed, the red flag was raised from the top of Kalyan Minaret, and the Emir Alim Khan was forced to flee to his base at Dushanbe (in present-day Tajikistan), and finally to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he died in 1944.

Myrzakan Subanov

Myrzakan Usurkanovich Subanov (Kyrgyz and Russian: Мырзакан Усурканович Субанов; born 15 October 1944) is a Soviet and Kyrgyzstani military leader who served as post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan's chairman of the State Defense Committee in 1992-1993 and first Minister of Defense in 1993-1999.

Ninth Army

Ninth United States Army, one of the main U.S. Army combat commands used during the campaign in Northwest Europe in 1944 and 1945.

Norm Hitzges

Norman R. "Norm" Hitzges (born July 5, 1944) is an author and sports talk radio host at KTCK (1310 AM / 96.7 FM, "SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket") in Dallas, Texas.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Pyongyang

Bishop Francis Hong Yong-ho (appointed on 24 March 1944 – title changed to vicar-apostolic of Pyongyang on 12 July 1950)

Rudolf Saalbach

Saalbach was awarded the Knight's Cross for his bravery and leadership between 12 and 19 March 1944, in Hungerburg and also promoted to Sturmbannführer.

South African Archaeological Society

A Cape Archaeological Society was founded in Cape Town in August 1944 by Professor A.J.H. Goodwin (1900-1959), who headed the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town.

Ted Donaldson

He appeared in twenty films, starting with a starring role as Arthur "Pinky" Thompson in Once Upon a Time (1944), opposite Cary Grant and Janet Blair, and as Barry in Mr. Winkle Goes to War with Edward G. Robinson (1944).

The Curse of the Cat People

The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, and produced by Val Lewton.

Thomas Cockcroft

Later in 1944 he helped defend London again during the Flying bomb offensive, Operation Diver; this time from East Anglia, which became know locally as 'Bomb Alley'.

Tim McIntire

Tim McIntire (July 19, 1944 – April 15, 1986) was an American character actor, probably most famous for his portrayal of disc jockey Alan Freed in the film American Hot Wax (1978).

Valmontone

On January 22, 1944, the Allies commenced Operation Shingle to outflank the Germans at the Winter Line and push toward Rome: Valmontone was an important objective on the way to Rome, in according to the Operation Buffalo, May–June 1944.

Waalbrug

In 1944 the Germans planned to blow up the bridge again, but Jan van Hoof, a Rover Scout and member of the Dutch Resistance, managed to prevent this.

Warsaw Tramway

The tram system remained operational, although gradually deteriorating, during most the Nazi occupation until the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, after which all the infrastructure was systematically destroyed.


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