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History on the 14th of July 1944

History
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Pinsk, Byelorussia was captured by the Soviet forces. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 British rescue tug HMS Turmoil was launched. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Submarine HMS Selene was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Destroyer HMS Wrangler was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The minesweeping of the western section of Cherbourg harbour in France was completed. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 From the North Sea, British carrier task force under Admiral Moore unsuccessfully attacked German battleship Tirpitz in Kaafiord, Norway. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 German SS member Heinrich Boere took part in Operation Silbertanne during which 54 civilians were killed in retaliation for the assassination of Dutch Nazi leaders by Dutch resistance fighters. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The keel of German submarine U-2334 was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The keel of German submarine U-3506 was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Soviet ambassador to Sweden Alexandra Kollontai announced that the Soviet Union was interested in peace discussions with Finland without any mention of the unconditional surrender that the Soviets had previously demanded. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 US bombers attacked the oil refineries at Budapest and Petfurdo, Hungary and the rail marshaling yard at Mantua, Italy, while in Italy US fighters and fighter-bombers attacked trains north of La Spazia and the airfield at Ghedi. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Nautilus delivered two men and 30 tons of supplies at Lagoma, Leyte, Philippine Islands. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The Japanese government announced the conscription of females between the ages of 12 and 40 for war-related work. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 In the Mariana Islands, US Seventh Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt fighters based on Saipan again struck Tinian Island. At Guam, US battleships joined in on the pre-invasion bombardment while transport USS Dickerson delivered US Navy underwater demolition specialists to survey landing beaches on the island. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Destroyer USS William C. Miller sank Japanese submarine I-6 off Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Corvette HMCS Petrolia was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 German submarine U-415 struck a mine and sank off Brest, France at 0915 hours. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The keel of destroyer Gurke was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Claus von Stauffenberg was summoned to see Adolf Hitler in Rastenburg, East Prussia, Germany on the following day. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 In northern Burma, the Morris Force of the Chindits was now down to three platoons in strength. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Puffer departed Fremantle, Australia for her fifth war patrol. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The US Eighth Air Force based in Britain flew several missions over France, with 319 B-17 bombers dropping 3,700 containers to supply Allied forces fighting in southern France, 131 B-24 bombers attacking Montdidier and Peronne airfields, and 94 P-38 fighter-bombers attacking targets near Paris (1 P-38 aircraft lost). Meanwhile, other Allied aircraft attacked targets in the French railway system in or near Bourth, Merey, Periers, Chateaudun, and other locations; some of these attacks were conducted using Oboe, a British aerial blind bombing targeting technology. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Prisoners in the Santé prison in Paris, France revolted, starting a fire in the prison compound. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Hitler departed his Berghof residence Berchtesgaden, Germany, never to return there again. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima, and Haha Jima were the targets of land-based aircraft for the first time as US Navy Bombing Squadron 109 PB4Y Liberator bombers based at Isley Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands dropped bombed on their airfields. In the United States, USAAF chief General Hap Arnold warned the Joint Planning Staff about the new Japanese Ki-84 fighters. As a precaution, he recommended seizing Iwo Jima to provide emergency airfields for bombers that might be damaged by new Japanese fighters such as the Ki-84. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Alabama, flagship of Rear Admiral E. W. Hanson, departed Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Soviet troops under Rodion Malinovsky captured Iasi, Romania. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 US Army ship FS-390 was commissioned into service at Los Angeles, California, United States under the command of US Coast Guard Lieutenant G. E. Oliver. 
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