• December 5 – The Army Corps of Engineers took over jurisdiction of surplus military airfields at Glasgow, Lewistown, and Cut Bank.
• December 15 – The U.S. Sixth Army invaded Mindoro. A train wreck at Gold Creek killed one man and burned up a freight car full of cigarettes.
• December 16 – A German offensive began in the Ardennes Forest.
• December 22 – The U.S. 101st Airborne held Bastogne against repeated German attacks.
• December 23 – Fire destroyed the McBee Motor Company garage in Billings with $100,000 damage. A man died of a heart attack while helping move belongings from an apartment adjacent to the fire.
• December 24 – The Charlo butter and cheese factory was destroyed by fire with $25,000 damage.
• December 26 – The Fourth Armored Division relieved the 101st Airborne at Bastogne.
• December 27 – Governor Sam Ford was sworn into his second term.
• December 28 – The Bachelor Officer’s Quarters at Gore Field was gutted by fire.
• December 31 – Longtime Missoula mailman Louis Brutto retired after 40 years on the job. Beginning in 1918, he had walked an estimated 100,000 miles delivering the mail.
Read more about December 1944 in Montana
Montana History Calendar 1930s
