Jump on our Virtual Newsstand as we journey back to 1944. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: After 2 years the Siege of Leningrad is lifted. It has cost the lives of 2 million Russians & millions more sick or injured.

February: Sue S. Dauser, Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps, becomes first female commissioned Captain in the history of the U.S. Navy.

March: 76 Royal Air Force POWs escape from Stalag Luft III by tunnel they name 'Harry'. 3 will make it home & 50 will be executed.

April: Rudi Vrba & Alfred Wetzler escape from Auschwitz. Their report gives first detailed information about the atrocities.

May: USS England (DE-635), a Buckley-class destroyer escort sinks 6 Japanese submarines in 12 days, an unparalleled feat.

June: 155,000 Allied troops arrive on the beaches of Normandy. D-Day landings are the largest amphibious operation in history.

July: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg, the bomb only slighty injures him.

August: The Polish resistance begin the Warsaw Uprising. After 63 days they will be defeated due to a lack of outside support.

September: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates Antwerp in Belgium & the exiled Belgian government returns to Brussels.

October: Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial & certain execution for conspiring against Hitler.

November: After previous attacks, Operation Catechism a force of 32 Lancaster bombers finally sink the German battleship Tirpitz.

December: An airplane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller disappears over the English Channel. He was traveling to entertain troops in France.