page_title: Timeline of World War II (1944)
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of World War II (1944) / August
caption_attribution_description: English: Warsaw Uprising: Soldiers from the "Radosław Regiment" after several hours marching through sewers from Krasiński Square to Warecka Street in the Śródmieście district, early morning on September 2, 1944. The boy in helmet is Tadeusz "Maszynka" Rajszczak from the Miotła Battalion. Polski: Powstanie Warszawskie: Żołnierze zgrupowania "Radosław" po kilku godzinnym przejściu kanałami z placu Krasińskich do ulicy Wareckiej na Śródmieście, nad ranem 2 IX 1944. Pierwszy od lewej w hełmie Tadeusz Rajszczak "Maszynka" z baonu "Miotła".
context_page_description: This is a timeline of events that occurred during 1944 in World War II.
context_section_description: 1:  The Warsaw Uprising, staged by the Polish Home Army, begins: the Polish people rise up, expecting aid from the approaching Soviet Union armies, but it never comes.
  : The Red Army isolates the Baltic States from East Prussia by taking Kaunas.
  : The Americans complete the capture of the island of Tinian.
  3: Allied U.S. and Chinese troops under Stilwell overcome a vigorous Japanese defense and take Myitkyina, in northern Burma.
  4: Florence is liberated by the Allies, particularly British and South African troops. Before exiting, the Germans under General Albert Kesselring destroy some historic bridges and historically valuable buildings.
  : Rennes, France, is liberated by American forces.
  5: Wola massacre: 40-50 thousand civilians murdered by German and collaborating Russian forces in the Wola district of Warsaw.
  :The Cowra breakout: Japanese POWs escape from an Australian prison near Cowra, New South Wales. Two guards are killed and posthumously awarded the George Cross.
  6: Germans round up young men in Krakow to stop the potential Kraków Uprising (1944). 
  : Ukrainian insurgents kill 42 Polish civilians in the Baligród massacre.
  7: First trials of the bomb conspirators against Hitler begin in a court presided over by notorious Judge Roland Freisler.
  8: Plotters in the bomb plot against Hitler are hanged and their bodies hung on meat hooks. Reprisals against their families continue.
  9: President Roosevelt chooses General Douglas MacArthur's plan to invade the Philippines and turns down Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's plan to invade Taiwan.
  10: Guam is liberated by American troops; all of the Marianas are now in American hands. They will be turned into a major air and naval centre against the Japanese homeland.
  :USAAF bombers attack Palembang in the Dutch East Indies
  14: The failure of the Allies to close the Falaise pocket in France proves advantageous to the Germans fleeing to the east who escape the pincer movement of the Allies.
  : A clash between Italian POWs and American servicemen ends in the Fort Lawton Riot
  15: Operation Dragoon begins, marked by amphibious Allied landings in southern France.
  : The Allies reach the "Gothic Line", the last German strategic position in North Italy.
  18: Following the assassination of a collaborationist politician in Belgium by the resistance, 20 civilians are massacred in Courcelles by paramilitaries in retaliation.
  : The Red Army reaches the East Prussian border.
  19: The French Resistance begins an uprising in Paris, partly inspired by the Allied approach to the Seine River.
  : In a radio broadcast, Jüri Uluots, the acting Head of State of Estonia, calls the Estonian conscripts to hold the Soviet Armed Forces back until a peace treaty with Germany is signed.
  20: The Red Army relaunches its offensive into Romania.
  : 168 Allied airmen arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
  21: The Dumbarton Oaks Conference begins, setting up the basic structure of the United Nations.
  22: The Japanese are now in total retreat from India.
  : German Chancellor Adolf Hitler issued the first of several orders to the German commander of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, to destroy the city.
  23: Romania breaks with the Axis, surrenders to the Soviet Union, and joins the Allies.
  25: Paris is liberated; De Gaulle makes a triumphant speech at the Hotel de la Ville, which is also broadcast nationwide.  The German military under Lt. Gen. von Choltitz disobeys Hitler's orders to burn the city and destroy all bridges over the Seine. Meanwhile the southern Allied forces move up from the Riviera, take Grenoble and Avignon.
  26: De Gaulle and the Free French parade triumphantly down the Champs-Élysées under some sniper fire.
  28: The Germans surrender at Toulon and Marseille in southern France.
  : Patton's tanks cross the Marne.
  29: The anti-German Slovak National Uprising starts in Slovakia.
  30: The Allies enter Rouen, in northwestern France.
  31: American forces turn over the government of France to Free French troops.
  : The Soviet army enters Bucharest.
caption: Polish Boy Scouts played an important role in the Warsaw Uprising.
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