1944 in France

Events

• 15 March - The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.
• 1 June - BBC transmits a coded message (the first line of a poem by Paul Verlaine) to underground resistance fighters in France warning that the invasion of Europe is imminent.
• 2 June - The provisional French government is established.
• 5 June - More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
• 5 June - At 10:15 p.m. local time, the BBC transmits the second line of the Paul Verlaine poem to the underground resistance indicating that the invasion of Europe is about to begin.
• 6 June - Battle of Normandy begins - Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allies troops on the beaches of Normandy.
• 6 June - Battle of Cherbourg begins.
• 7 June - Bayeux liberated by British troops.
• 10 June - 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre.
• 10 June - Battle of Carentan begins.
• 13 June - Battle of Bloody Gulch, near Carentan, United States forces victory.
• 14 June......
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