February 6th, 1944 (SUNDAY)
FINLAND: 150 heavy Soviet bombers attack Helsinki as a part of Stalin's plan to soften Finland to separate from Germany and conclude peace. Thanks to the efficient Finnish air-defences, mostly equipment purchased from Germany, the damage to the city is limited, but still 103 people are killed.
Patrol Boat VMV 12 is destroyed in Helsinki bombing while in dock.
ITALY: Both on the Cassino front and on the beachhead south of Rome, Allied troops were forced to withdraw under heavy German counterattacks.
BURMA: Major-General Orde Wingate leads a special force of Indian, British and US soldiers to engage the Japanese at Myitkyina.
CANADA: Frigate HMCS St Stephen launched Esquimalt , British Columbia.
U.S.A.:
Minesweepers USS Design, Density and Invade launched.
Destroyer USS Lowry launched.
Destroyer USS Hugh W Hadley laid down.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: The IWO of U-965 fell overboard and drowned. [Leutnant zur See Gustav-Günther Schoop] (Alex Gordon)
U-177 sunk in the South Atlantic west of Ascension Island, in position 10.35S, 23.15W, by depth charges from a USN VB-107 Sqn Privateer. 50 dead and 15 survivors.