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	1943—Continued
November 1943
	17	British and Italian garrison of Leros surrenders to the Germans
	1944
January 1944
	22	Allies land at Anzio,
March 1944
	26	Russian troops reach the Romanian border.
May 1944
	25	German airborne troops attack Tito's headquarters at Dvar.
June 1944
	4	Allied troops enter Rome.
	6	Invasion of Normandy.
	6–14	Operation GEMSBOCK.
July 1944
	3	EDES reopens hostilities. EDES forces attack German troops near Arta. Operation STEINADLER launched. Partisans advance into Macedonia. August 194.4 5 12 12 20 24 September Operation KREUZOTTER begins. Operation RUEBEZAUL gets under way. Florence captured by the Allies after heavy fighting. Russians launch deep drive into Romania. Romanian Government surrenders to the Soviet Union. 19 44 5 8 8-9 12 21 1.ate October 194.4 12 14 20 Soviet Union declares war on Bulgaria. Bulgaria asks Russians for armistice and declares war on Germany. General rising takes place in southern and central Greece. United States First Army crosses the German frontier. Marshal von Weichs considers Partisan units as equivalent to regular forces. Russians fighting north of Belgrade. 26,500 Germans still stranded on Crete, Rhodes, and other islands. Army Group E headquarters moves to Macedonia. Belgrade falls to the Russians and the I Partisan Corps. November 19.44 2 Last German units evacuate Greece.