The Novgorod Offensive, also known as the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive, was a strategic offensive launched by the Red Army in January 1944 to lift the siege of Leningrad (now St Petersberg), ultimately succeeding in breaking the siege after 880 days.  

The British 8th Army and the US 5th Army liberated from German occupation, marking a significant victory in the Italian campaign.

D-Day arked the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy where 130,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe.  American forces landed at Utah and Omaha beaches, and  British and Canadian forces landed at Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches.

From August 19 to 25, 1944, the French Resistance forces and Allied troops drove out the remaining German garrison in Paris, ending four years of Nazi occupation of the French capital.  

Aka the Ardennes Offensive was the last major German offensive on the Western Front took place from December 16, 1944, to January 25, 1945, in the Ardennes Forest.