Editing 1944 (section)

===June===
{{Main article|June 1944}}
[[File:NormandySupply edit.jpg|thumb|Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy during [[D-Day]].]]
[[File:LVTs move toward Saipan, past bombarding cruisers, on 15 June 1944 (80-G-231838).jpg|thumb|[[Landing Vehicle Tracked|LVTs]] heading for shore on June 15, 1944, during the [[Battle of Saipan]].]]
* [[June 1]] &ndash; Two [[K-class blimp]]s of the [[United States Navy]] complete the first [[transatlantic crossing]] by [[Blimp|non-rigid airship]]s, from the U.S. to [[French Morocco]], with two stops.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kaiser|first=Don|url=https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/fbd712_4eac320cdad44dd68701e9cecad8e446.pdf|title=K-Ships Across the Atlantic|journal=Naval Aviation News|volume=93|issue=2|year=2011|access-date=2011-09-23}}</ref>
* [[June 2]] &ndash; WWII: The [[Provisional Government of the French Republic]] is established.
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Hans Asperger]] publishes his paper on [[Asperger syndrome]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Asperger|first=H.|orig-year=1944|chapter='Autistic psychopathy' in childhood|editor=Frith, Uta|title=Autism and Asperger Syndrome|url=https://archive.org/details/autismaspergersy00frit|url-access=limited|year=1991|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-38448-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/autismaspergersy00frit/page/n46 37]–92}}</ref>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; WWII:
** [[Rome]] falls to the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]], the first of the [[Axis powers|Axis]] capitals to fall.
** A hunter-killer group of the [[United States Navy]] captures the {{GS|U-505}}, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel has captured an enemy vessel at sea since the [[War of 1812]]. Some significant intelligence data is acquired.
* [[June 5]] &ndash; WWII:
** The German navy's [[Enigma machine|Enigma]] messages are decoded in England almost in real time.
** British [[Group Captain]] [[James Stagg]] correctly forecasts a brief improvement in weather conditions over the [[English Channel]], which will permit the following day's [[Normandy landings]] to take place (having been deferred from today due to unfavourable weather).
** At 10:15&nbsp;p.m. local time, the [[BBC]] transmits coded messages including the second line of the [[Paul Verlaine]] poem "[[Chanson d'automne]]" to the [[French Resistance]], indicating that the invasion of Europe is about to begin.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=M. R. D. Foot|last=Foot|first=M. R. D.|title=SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940–46|location=London|publisher=Pimlico|year=1999|isbn=978-0-7126-6585-8|page=143}}</ref>
** More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the [[Normandy]] coast, in preparation for [[D-Day]].
** US and British [[airborne forces|airborne]] divisions drop into Normandy, in preparation for D-Day.
** [[D-Day naval deceptions]] are launched.
* [[June 6]] &ndash; WWII: D-Day: 155,000 [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] troops shipped from England land on the beaches of [[Normandy]] in northern France, beginning [[Operation Overlord]] and the [[Invasion of Normandy]]. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the [[Atlantic Wall]] and push inland, in the largest amphibious [[military]] operation in history. This operation helps liberate France from Germany, and also weakens the Nazi hold on Europe.
* [[June 7]] &ndash; WWII:
** [[Bayeux]] is liberated by British troops.
** [[Operation Perch]], a British attempt to capture [[Caen]] from the Germans, commences; it is abandoned on June 14.
** The steamer ''Danae'' ({{langx|el|Δανάη}}), carrying 600 [[Crete|Cretans]] (including 350 Greek Jews) on the first leg of the journey to [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]], is sunk, with no known survivors, off [[Santorini]].
** [[Joel Brand]] is intercepted by British agents in [[Aleppo]].
* [[June 9]] &ndash; WWII: Soviet leader [[Joseph Stalin]] launches the [[Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive]] against Finland, with the intent of defeating Finland before pushing for Berlin.
* [[June 10]] &ndash; WWII: [[Oradour-sur-Glane massacre]]: 642 men, women and children are killed in France.
* [[June 13]] &ndash; WWII: Germany launches the first [[V-1 flying bomb]] attack on London.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=978-0-14-102715-9|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] &ndash; WWII: [[Battle of Saipan]]: United States forces land on [[Saipan]].
* [[June 15]]–[[June 16|16]] &ndash; WWII: [[Bombing of Yawata (June 1944)|Bombing of Yawata]] &ndash; The [[United States Army Air Forces]] conduct the first air raid on the Japanese home islands.
* [[June 16]] &ndash; At age 14, [[African-American]] teenage boy [[George Stinney|George Stinney Jr.]] becomes the youngest person ever executed by [[electric chair]] in the United States.
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Iceland]] declares full independence from Denmark.
* [[June 19]] &ndash; WWII: A severe storm badly damages the [[Mulberry harbour]]s on the [[Normandy]] coast.
* [[June 20]] &ndash; WWII: A [[V-2 rocket]] becomes the first man-made object to cross the [[Kármán line]] and reach the edge of space.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780029228951|url-access=registration|last=Neufeld|first=Michael J.|publisher=The Free Press|year=1995|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780029228951/page/158 158], 160–162, 190|isbn=9780029228951}}</ref>
* [[June 22]] &ndash; WWII:
** [[Operation Bagration]]: A general attack by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces clears the German forces from [[Belarus]], resulting in the destruction of German [[Army Group Centre]], possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.
** [[Burma Campaign]]: The [[Battle of Kohima]] ends in a British victory.
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[The Holocaust]]: [[Maurice Rossel]] of the [[International Committee of the Red Cross]] visits [[Theresienstadt concentration camp]], uncritically accepting the propaganda view of it presented by the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]''.
* [[June 25]] &ndash; WWII:
** [[Battle of Tali-Ihantala]] (the largest battle ever in the [[Nordic countries]]): Finland is able to resist the Soviet attack, and thus manages to remain an independent nation.
** [[Bombardment of Cherbourg|Cherbourg is bombarded]] by ships of the [[United States Navy]] and British [[Royal Navy]], in support of U.S. ground troops.
* [[June 26]] &ndash; WWII: American troops enter [[Cherbourg-Octeville|Cherbourg]].
* [[June 29]] &ndash; WWII: American submarine {{USS|Sturgeon|SS-187|6}} torpedoes Japanese troop transport {{ship||Toyama Maru}}; 5,400 drown.<ref name=gmd/>
* [[June 30]] &ndash; WWII: American submarine {{USS|Tang|SS-306|6}} torpedoes Japanese troop transport {{SS|Nikkin Maru}}; 3,219 drown.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jsu.or.jp/siryo/sunk/pdf/nikkin.pdf|title=Nikkin Maru - Casualties (日錦丸の被害)|publisher=All Japan Seamen's Union|access-date=2011-11-18}}</ref>