Timeline of World War 2 from 6 Nov 1943Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine

6 Nov 1943: Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine
Early on the morning of 3 November 1943, the 4th Panzer Army was subjected to a massive Soviet bomba...

18 Nov 1943: Large British air raid on Berlin
The Battle of Berlin was launched by Harris in November 1943, a concerted air campaign against the G...

28 Nov 1943: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Ch...

24 Dec 1943: Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front
On October 20, 1943 the Voronezh Front was renamed to the 1st Ukrainian Front. This name change refl...

6 Jan 1944: Soviet troops advance into Poland
The Home Army was the dominant Polish resistance movement in Poland occupied by Nazi Germany and the...

17 Jan 1944: First attack toward Cassino, Italy
The first assault was made on 17 January. Near the coast, British X Corps (56th and 5th Divisions) f...

22 Jan 1944: Allies land at Anzio in Italy
The Battle of Anzio was an important battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that took place ...

27 Jan 1944: Leningrad relieved after a 900-day siege
The Siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military blockade undertaken mainly by the German Army Group ...

15 Feb 1944: Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy
The request, however, was greatly expanded by air force planners and probably supported by Ira Eaker...

16 Feb 1944: German counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead
By early February German forces in Fourteenth Army numbered some 100,000 troops organised into two A...

4 Mar 1944: Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front
The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the...

4 Mar 1944: First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies
The Big Week (Sunday, 20–Friday, 25 February 1944) heavy bomber offensive began shortly after the Ei...

15 Mar 1944: Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino, Italy begins
The Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino) was a cos...

18 Mar 1944: British drop 3,000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany

8 Apr 1944: Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea
The Crimean Offensive (8 April – 12 May 1944), known in German sources as the Battle of the Crimea, ...

9 May 1944: Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol
During World War II, Sevastopol withstood intensive bombardment by the Germans in 1941–42, supported...

11 May 1944: Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome
The Winter Line was a series of German military fortifications in Italy, constructed during World Wa...

12 May 1944: Germans surrender in the Crimea
The Crimean Offensive (8 April – 12 May 1944), known in German sources as the Battle of the Crimea, ...

25 May 1944: Germans retreat from Anzio, Italy
At 05:45 on 23 May 1944, 1,500 Allied artillery pieces commenced bombardment. Forty minutes later th...

4 Jun 1944: Allies enter Rome
During World War II, Rome suffered few bombings (notably at San Lorenzo) and relatively little damag...

6 Jun 1944: D-Day landings on the northern coast of France
The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1...

9 Jun 1944: Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins
The Leningrad Front was immediately given the task of containing the German drive towards Leningrad ...

10 Jun 1944: Nazis liquidate the town of Oradour-sur-Glane in France
On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in the Nazi-occupied France was de...

13 Jun 1944: First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain
The V-1 was developed at Peenemünde Army Research Center by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Sec...

22 Jun 1944: Soviet summer offensive begins
Operation Bagration was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation d...

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Timeline of World War 2 from 6 Nov 1943