Historical Timeline of Events

Developments up to September 1944

by Rainer Monnartz

June 6, 1944 (Tuesday)
Landing of the Allied forces in Normandy.
Sept. 7, 1944 (Friday)
Caen liberated by Canadian and British Forces.
July 25, 1944 (Sunday)
Operation COBRA to break out of Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy launched.
Aug. 8, 1944 (Thursday)
The German forces launch Operation Luttich, a massive counter attack near the villiage of Mortain.
Aug. 13 - 20, 1944 (Thursday - Thursday)
Battle of the Falaise Pocket. (The series of battles at Argentan, Chambois, Trun, St Lambert-sur-Dives, Hordouseaux and Coudehard.)
08/20/1944 Allies encircle the remnants of the German Fifth Panzer and Seventh armies in the Falaise pocket.
Aug. 20 - 21, 1944 (Thursday - Friday)
During the night the 1st SS, by now intermingled with the broken remnants of twenty other German divisions in the Falaise Pocket, escapes to the east near the town of St. Lambert-sur-Dives.
Aug. 24, 1944 (Thursday)
Hitler's war directive No. 61: . . . about the extension of the German Weststellung (positions at their western border).
Aug. 24 - 25, 1944 (Thursday - Friday)
Allied forces assisted by French resistance enter Paris.
Sep. 1, 1944 (Friday)
War directive No. 63: . . . order to reinstall the defense readiness of the West Wall.
Sep. 3, 1944 (Sunday)
Brussels liberated by Allied forces.
Sep. 4, 1944 (Monday)
The 11th Armored Division (XXX Corps, British 2nd Army) enters Antwerp. The harbor, the biggest on the North Sea, is intact; but the Germans still control the Scheldt estuary until August 11, 1944. On 28 November 1944 a Canadian merchant ship was the first to enter Antwerp. Europe's largest port is now available for the allies and supply lines are considerably shortened.
Sep. 6, 1944 (Wednesday)
9th Infantry Division (U.S.) crosses the Meuse River at Dinant, Belgium.
Sep. 7, 1944 (Thursday)
German war directive to secure and occupy the West Wall with alarm units.
Sep. 8, 1944 (Friday)
Liberation of Liège, Belgium.
Sep. 10, 1944 (Sunday)
Liberation of Luxembourg City and Verviers / Belgium by American forces.


HORIZONTAL FLOURISH LINE



Source:
Original text by Rainer Monnartz, Geschichtsverein Hürtgenwald e.V.
German to English translation made by Scorpio and Christine Greenthaner.

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