OPERATION “BAGRATION”

22 JUNE— 19 AUGUST 1944 15 JUNE 1944 Strategic air offensive against Japan begins with attacks from Chinese bases. 18 JUNE 1944 Japanese army captures city of Changsha in southern China. 25 JULY 1944 Operation “Cobra” launched in Normandy to break out from the bridgehead. 21 AUGUST 1944 Dumbarton Oaks meeting in the United States paves the way for the formation of United Nations organization. 25 AUGUST 1944 Romania changes sides and declares war on Germany. 30 AUGUST 1944 Red Army occupies the Romanian oilfields at Ploesti, cutting Germany off from one of its main oil supplies. On the Eastern Front the success of the operations in the Ukraine in 1943 and early 1944 had left a large German salient, held by Army Group Centre under Field Marshal Busch, around…

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