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Topic: Battle of the Baltic (1944)

	World War II
		Similar efforts were made at sea in the Battle of the Atlantic, where German U-Boats attempted to deprive the British Isles of necessary Lend Lease cargo from the United States.
		In late August and early September, while battle raged on Guadalcanal, an amphibious Japanese attack on the eastern tip of New Guinea was met by Australian forces at Milne Bay, and the Japanese land forces suffered their first conclusive defeat.
		As the Philippines were being retaken in late 1944, the Battle of Leyte Gulf raged, arguably the largest naval battle in history.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/world_war_ii.html (10636 words)

	Battle of the Baltic (1944) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Baltic, called the Baltic Operation by the Red Army who undertook it, denotes combat operations between the German Wehrmacht and the Red Army in the Baltic region during late summer and autumn of 1944.
		The result of the series of battles was a permanent loss of contact between Army Groups North and Centre, and the creation of the Courland Pocket in Latvia.
		By 5 July 1944, the Šiauliai Operation commenced, as a follow-on from Operation Bagration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Baltic_(1944) (738 words)

	1944 USAAF Serial Numbers
		40254/40263 to USN as PB4Y-1 38742/38751 40264 w/o Sep 8, 1944.
		To C.18S F-BECE wfu 47580/47582 to USN (85128/85130) Dec 1944 47583 to Italy Jan 25, 1949 47584 to USN (85131) Dec 1944 47585 (c/n 7993) to Hercules Powder Co, Calif Dec 1944.
		Condemned FFC Dec 7, 1944 49231 to RFC Walnut Ridge Oct 17, 1945 49232 to RFC Walnut Ridge Oct 11, 1945 49233 to RFC Walnut Ridge Oct 18, 1945 49234 converted to C-109.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher/1944_4.html (15463 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 1944 - Calendar Encyclopedia
		February 15 - Battle of Monte Cassino - the monastery atop Monte Cassino is destroyed by Allied bombing.
		March 15 - Battle of Monte Cassino - Allied aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.
		Largest battle ever to be fought in the Nordic countries.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /1944.htm (3412 words)

	The Baltic Tragedy (VHS)
		The newsreel also features a long combat sequence of the battle for Lithuania and the capture of her capital city, Kaunas, as well as the advance on other strategic towns by the Germans.
		In one of the last German wartime newsreels, a glimpse of the ferocious defensive battle for the Courland peninsula in Latvia is shown.
		Therefore this film, together with the entire Baltic Tragedy program, presents yet another chapter of the roots of the peoples who fled from sorrow and enslavement, from wretchedness and war, toward uncertainty and hope, who today are part of the nation that is America.
	www.ihffilm.com /23.html (1090 words)

	NAVAL-HISTORY.NET
		Battle of Cape Matapan, Battle for Crete, sinking of 'Bismarck
		Raid on Dieppe, Battles of Midway and Alamein
		Battles for Tunis and North Africa, Battle of Atlantic peaks
	www.naval-history.net (1400 words)

	OSS Report on Wartime Population Changes in the Baltic [1939-1944]
		Editor's Note: In 1944 the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor of the present CIA, circulated a confidential study on the wartime population losses in those areas of Eastern Europe annexed by the USSR during 1939 and 1940.
		It is estimated that by 1944 the total population in the same territory had decreased by 4.9 million persons, leaving a balance of 17.8 million.
		The entry of the Baltic republics into the USSR means that the Soviet Union is increased by the 2.880 million population of Lithuania, the 1.950 million population of Latvia, and the 1.120 population of Estonia.
	www.lituanus.org /1981_3/81_3_07.htm (3455 words)

	World War 2: ww2 - 4
		The result of the series of battles was a permanent loss of contact between Army Groups North and Centre, and the creation of the Courland Pocket in Latvia.
		In April 1944, the Japanese launched Operation Ichigo to secure the railway route across Japanese-occupied territories of northeast China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, and to destroy U.S. airbases in the area.
		In Southeast Asia, during the monsoon from August to November 1944, the Japanese were pursued to the Chindwin River in Burma after their failed attack on India.
	david2002002h.blogspot.com /2006/10/ww2-4.html (6272 words)

	The Foreign Minister
		Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had deported the Chechen people to Kazakhstan in 1944, killing nearly half of the population.
		It was not until 1957 and the re-establishment of the Chechen-Ingush autonomous republic, that Maskhadov and his family were permitted to return to their native land.
		That battle marked a turning point in war, initiating bilateral negotiations that resulted in complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya.
	www.chechnya-mfa.info /bio/president.htm (542 words)

	World War II information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Battle of the Caucasus, fought in the late summer and fall of 1942, saw the Axis forces capturing the oil fields.
		The Japanese committed much of their declining naval strength in the Battle of the Philippine Sea but suffered severe losses in both ships and aircraft and after the battle the Japanese aircraft carrier force was no longer militarily effective.
		In April 1944, the Japanese launched Operation Ichigo whose aim was to secure the railway route across Japanese occupied territories of North East China and Korea and those in South East Asia and to destroy airbases in the area which serviced USAAF aircraft.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/World_War_II (8883 words)

	Chronology 1944
		In the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Japanese lost 40 ships and 405 aircraft, while an additional 46 ships were damaged.
		This battle effectively eliminated the Imperial Navy as an offensive threat in the Pacific.
		By 1944, the Allies had achieved naval superiority in the Battle of the Atlantic, destroying over 500 U-boots.
	www.indiana.edu /~league/1944.htm (3645 words)

	Nazi Camps in Greater Germany 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This led to the increased use of concentration camp prisoners as forced laborers in German armaments industries.
		Especially in 1943 and 1944, hundreds of subcamps were established in or near industrial plants.
		Camps such as Auschwitz in Poland, Buchenwald in central Germany, Gross-Rosen in eastern Germany, Natzweiler-Struthof in eastern France, Ravensbrueck near Berlin, and Stutthof near Danzig on the Baltic coast became administrative centers of huge networks of subsidiary forced-labor camps.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/campmap1.html (132 words)

	The History Place - World War Two in Europe Timeline
		1939 - 1940 - 1941 - 1942 - 1943 - 1944 - 1945
		- Battle of Kasserine Pass between the U.S. 1st Armored Division and German Panzers in North Africa.
		- 'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk.
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm (1796 words)

	The Royal Air Force - History Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This page lists all the Battle Honours that RAF units are eligible to claim as participants, and distinguishes between those that can and cannot be emblazoned upon the Squadron Standard.
		For operations over the Baltic and its approaches by squadrons of Bomber and Coastal Commands from the outbreak of war to VE Day.
		For operations during the 14th Army's advance from Imphal to Rangoon, the coastal amphibious assaults, and the Battle of Pegu Yomas, August 1944 to August 1945.
	www.raf.mod.uk /history/sqn_hons_ww2_1.html (531 words)

	SEPTEMBER, 1944
		Further neutralization raids against enemy positions in the Marshalls were conducted on 4 September by 7th AAF Liberators and Corsair fighters and Dauntless dive bombers of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing.
		Last month, due to the effectiveness of the Allied Operations in France, the principal U‑boat operating bases in the Bay of Biscay were neutralized.
		As a consequence the Germans have been forced to operate their underseas craft from Norwegian and Baltic bases, thereby stretching even thinner their difficult lines of operation.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/comms/1944-09.html (8309 words)

	Normandy, British, Isles, Inshore, Thane, Manners, Walpole, Icarus, Amethyst, Hart, Peacock, Starling, HMS
		As in all the battles great use was made of Allied air power, and on the 30th, Avranches was in American hands.
		In revenge many died and Field Marshal Rommel, implicated in the attempt on Hitler's life was forced to commit suicide in October 1944.
		Between the 2nd and 6th, 23 U-boats of all types were destroyed by the Typhoons, Beaufighters, Mosquitoes and Liberators of the RAF and Allied Tactical Air Forces.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsWFront1944.htm (6312 words)

	Amazon.com: From the Normandy Beaches to the Baltic Sea: The Northwest Europe Campaign, 1944-1945: Books: Alan J. Levine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Rapid changes in warfare rendered the character of the battles of 1944-1945 quite different from battles earlier in the war, and Levine finds that old-fashioned fortifications often had an unexpected and formidable impact on the fighting.
		Alan J. Levine's 'From the Normandy Beaches to the Baltic Sea: The Northwest Europe Campaign, 1944-1945' is an solid synopsis of the year the Western Allies spent in NW Europe at the end of the Second World War.
		However, if you want a good top-down (to mid level command) look at the progress of the war in NW Europe (with connected political events and Soviet coordination of events on the eastern front) this is probably a book worth tracking down.
	www.amazon.com /Normandy-Beaches-Baltic-Sea-Northwest/dp/0275969207 (1494 words)

	381st BGMA: 535th Squadron War Diary - August 1944
		This place is a centre for robot bomb production and testing and may house installations concerned with the new, mammoth V-2 rocket projectile with which the Germans are now threatening England.
		Yesterday 24 ships came home with major battle damage and ten of those were made operational for today's mission.
		Many ships returned with battle damage, one, in another squadron, with one dead and four wounded aboard.
	www.381st.org /histories/535th_08-1944.html (3977 words)

	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – World War II - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		events of the war by year – 1944
		This kingdom in the Balkans shared the fate of other German satellites during 1944.
		With the advance of the Russian army and with the waning star of Germany, Bulgaria, like Rumania and Finland, abandoned the war on Germany's side and joined Russia in the prosecution of the war against Germany....
	encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210047227_5.2/1944_Bulgaria.html (147 words)

	annie not ann : Deaths caused by humansWar and military (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		1,015 - HMS Invincible, (Battle of Jutland) 1916
		1,013 - HMS Indefatigable, (Battle of Jutland) 1916
		839 - SMS Pommern, (Battle of Jutland) 1916
	www.greatestjournal.com /users/poetiszka/29558.html (4324 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships
		Even the mighty Yamato was chased away from the battle while trying to evade a torpedo from the destroyer USS Heerman (DD-532).
		Kurita's retreat seems almost inexplicable, since Leyte Gulf was a battle that the IJN had to win or die trying.
		24 Oct 1944: Battle of the Surigao Strait.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/IJNBBtable.html (1279 words)

	In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 (V&H, pt. 4)
		Where the McKenna version implies the use of conscripted soldiers, Wise clarifies that there WERE no conscripts in Normandy, because conscription didn't begin until after that battle was fought.
		It's interesting, though, that this segment seems to receive the least attention, since it is probably one of the best researched.
		I don't understand the repeated reference to "the true story of those battles has never really been told".
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_television/17964 (543 words)

	The New Press
		Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
		A passionate call to action from one of the leading voices in the global struggle for universal access to the earth’s most vital element—a sequel to the acclaimed Blue Gold
		Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America’s Schools
	www.thenewpress.com /index.php?option=com_title&task=browse_titles (7498 words)

	Untitled Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		These figures include deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, and atrocities as well as deaths of soldiers in battle.
		50,000 - Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo (1917)
		30,000 - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9)
	www.peacestream.org /declaration.html (2727 words)

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