February 1: United States troops land in the Marshall Islands.

February 2: The first issue of Human Events is published in Washington, D.C..

February 3: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.

February 7: At Anzio, Italian forces launch a counteroffensive.

February 14: An anti-Japanese revolt breaks out on Java.

February 15: Battle of Monte Cassino: The monastery atop Monte Cassino is destroyed by Allied bombing.

February 17: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; it ends in an American victory on February 22.

February 20: The "Big Week" begins with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers. - The United States takes Eniwetok Island.

February 22: United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe organized from the Eighth Air Force's strategic planning staff; subsuming strategic planning for all US Army Air Forces in Europe and Africa.

February 23: The Chechens and Ingush are forcibly deported to Central Asia.

February 26: Kurt Gerron begins shooting the Nazi propaganda film Theresienstadt in Theresienstadt concentration camp. He and many others who feature in it are transferred to Auschwitz and gassed on its completion. - First woman appointed to the substantive rank of captain in the United States Navy Nurse Corps, Sue S. Dauser.

February 29: Battle of Los Negros and Operation Brewer: U.S. forces land on the Admiralty Islands. (source: Wikipedia)