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Events from the year 1944 in France. ==Events== *15 March - The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme. *1 June - BBC transmits a coded message (the first line of a poem by Paul Verlaine) to underground resistance fighters in France warning that the invasion of Europe is imminent. *2 June - The provisional French government is established. *5 June - More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day. *5 June - At 10:15 p.m. local time, the BBC transmits the second line of the Paul Verlaine poem to the underground resistance indicating that the invasion of Europe is about to begin. *6 June - Battle of Normandy begins - ''Operation Overlord'', code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy. *6 June - Battle of Cherbourg begins. *7 June - Bayeux liberated by British troops. *9 June - over 200 killed by 2nd SS Panzer Division ("Das Reich") in the Tulle massacre *10 June - 642 men, women and children are killed by 2nd SS Panzer Division ("Das Reich") in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre. *10 June - Battle of Carentan begins. *13 June - Battle of Bloody Gulch, near Carentan, United States forces victory. *14 June - Battle of Carentan ends with Allied victory. *26 June - American troops enter Cherbourg. *30 June - Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces. *9 July - British and Canadian forces capture Caen. *12 August - World's first undersea oil pipeline laid, between England and France in Operation Pluto. *15 August - Operation Dragoon lands Allies in southern France. *19 August - Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops. *20 August - American forces successfully defeat German forces at Chambois. This victory closed the Falaise Gap. *25 August - Surrender of occupying German garrison in Paris. *26 August - Toulon liberated in Battle of Toulon (1944) *28 August - Marseille liberated in Battle of Marseille *8 September - Menton is liberated from Germany. *11 September - Northern and Southern France invasion forces link up near Dijon. *24 September - The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division takes the strongly defended city of Epinal before crossing the Moselle River and entering the western foothills of the Vosges. *5 October - Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France. *31 October - Mass murderer Marcel Petiot is apprehended in Paris Métro station. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1944 in France」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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