


Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat.Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa.US Army troops landing at Anzio during Operation Shingle, late January 1944. 1944 in various calendars Gregorian calendar
