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October 1944 in Montana

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October 1944

• October 2 – A Polish uprising against the Nazis in Warsaw ended after 68 days, leaving 200,000 civilians dead and much of the city ruined. A staff sergeant of the 7th Ferrying Group was stabbed to death near Fort Benton, suicide suspected.

• October 9 – Six were charged in the murder of Billings resident Frederick Kembel.

• October 11 – Two German POWs escaped from a farm near Hathaway.

• October 20 – Senator and vice-presidential candidate Harry Truman spoke in Butte. U.S. troops landed on the Philippine island of Leyte.

• October 23 – Two German POWs escaped from the Sidney camp. One was believed to be wearing women’s clothing after performing in a play.

• October 26 – The Montana Education Association met in Helena.

• October 28 – Prison inmates and Warm Springs patients helped the Forest Service put out a 90-acre fire near the Deer Lodge racetrack.

• October 29 – Pheasant season opened.

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June 1944 in Montana

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June 1944 in Montana

• June 4 – The mayor of Great Falls and several local people

were interviewed for a KFBB radio program broadcast in

Britain.

• June 5 – The Allies captured Rome. High school air cadet

trainees arrived at Montana State College for two quarters

of training. An oil truck loading facility in Laurel was

destroyed by fire $30,000 damage.

• June 6 – The Allies invaded the Normandy beaches.

• June 7 – The 163rd Infantry Regiment captured Mokmer

airfield on Biak.

• June 9 – Paris Fligman’s department store in Great Falls was

sold to a subsidiary of Allied Stores for $1.75 million.

• June 12 – The Fifth War Bond Drive started.

• June 17 – Billings held the annual “Go Western” parade.

• June 20 – A five-year-old Helena boy drowned after riding

his tricycle into Ten Mile Creek.

• June 23 – A P-39 pilot was killed in a crash near Pompey’s

Pillar.

• June 24 – Five tons of waste paper were destroyed by

arsonists in Great Falls. A compulsory 48–hour work week

was implemented for major industries.

• June 25 – The Augusta rodeo began.

• June 28 – A truck accident near Boulder destroyed 180

cases of liquor.

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May 1944 in Montana

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May 1944 in Montana

• May 2 – A fire at the Carston Packing Company in Billings

caused $7,000 damage.

• May 3-5 – Personnel at Gore Field presented “Desert Fever,”

a six–act play, at the Rainbow Theater in Great Falls.

• May 4 – A Butte apartment building was destroyed by dynamite,

severely injuring one man. The suspect rented an apartment just minutes before the blast.

• May 13 – Six crewmen died and five were rescued when a

bomber from Casper, Wyoming crashed two miles northwest

of Miles City. A new oil well in the Gage Dome north of

Roundup produced 5,000 barrels a day.

• May 18 – The 163rd Infantry Regiment seized Wakde.

• May 19 – Two hundred Butte miners from the St. Lawrence

Mine walked off the job because they disliked the foreman.

The miners returned to work three days later when the

foreman was removed.

• May 21 – “I Am an American Day.” Two Great Falls men

drowned at the Martinsdale Reservoir.

• May 25 – The Montana Stockgrower’s Association met in

Miles City. One hundred oil truck drivers in Laurel and

Billings went on strike, which ended after two days.

• May 26 – The U.S. Senate passed a measure providing postwar

construction funds for Hungry Horse dam.

• May 27 – The 41st Division landed on Biak Island.

 

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