Editing 1944 (section)

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[[image:NormandySupply.jpeg|thumb|300px|Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy during [[D-Day]].]].
* [[June 2]] - The provisional [[France|French]] government is established.
* [[June 4]] - A hunter-killer group of the [[United States Navy]] captures the [[Germany|German]] submarine [[Unterseeboot-505|U-505]], marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at [[sea]] since the [[19th century]].
* [[June 4]] - American, English and French troops enter [[Rome]].
* [[June 5]] - [[Rome]] falls to the [[Allied powers|Allies]]. It is the first capital of an [[Axis powers|Axis]] nation to fall.
* [[June 5]] - More than 1000 [[United Kingdom|British]] bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on [[Germany|German]] gun batteries on the [[Normandy]] coast in preparation for [[D-Day]].
* [[June 6]] - [[Battle of Normandy]] begins - ''Operation Overlord'', code named [[D-Day]], commences with the landing of 155,000 [[Allies|Allied]] troops on the beaches of [[Normandy]] in [[France]]. The allied soldiers quickly break through the [[Atlantic Wall]] and push inland in the largest amphibious [[military]] operation in history.
* [[June 7]] - [[Bayeux]] liberated by British troops.
* [[June 9]] - [[Stalin]] launches an offensive against [[Finland]] with the intent of defeating Finland before pushing for [[Berlin]].
* [[June 10]] - 642 men, women and children are killed in the [[Oradour-sur-Glane]] Massacre in [[France]].
* [[June 13]] - [[Germany]] launches a [[V1 Flying Bomb]] attack on [[England]].
* [[June 15]] - [[Battle of Saipan]]: The [[United States]] invades [[Saipan]].
* [[June 17]] - The proclamation and discovery of the Republic of [[Iceland]].
* [[June 22]] - [[Operation Bagration]]: General attack by [[Soviet]] forces to clear the [[Germany|German]] forces from [[Belarus]] which resulted in the destruction of the German [[Army Group Centre]], possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.
* [[June 22]] - [[Burma Campaign]]: The [[Battle of Kohima]] ends in a British victory.
* [[June 25]] - The [[Battle of Tali-Ihantala]] between Finnish and Soviet troops begins. Largest battle ever to be fought in the [[Nordic countries]].
* [[June 26]] - American troops enter [[Cherbourg]].