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South East Asia Command; Far East Command, the Soviet command during the war against Japan in 1945; Japanese commands: Japanese Combined Fleet, the Japanese command which oversaw naval operations; Southern Expeditionary Army Group, the Japanese army command in the South West Pacific and South East Asia
Battle of France (with Benelux countries/Fall Gelb) (May–June 1940) Battle of Britain ( + Operation Sea Lion Unternehmen Seelöwe) (July–October 1940) Western Front (1944–1945) Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) commanded Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until May 1945. Battle of Normandy (June ...
Pacific Front: 1941-12-08 1941-12-10 United States Japan: Axis Wake Island: Pacific Front: 1941-12-08 1941-12-23 United States Japan: Axis Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse: Malayan campaign: Pacific Front: 1941-12-10 United Kingdom Japan: Axis Vigan: Philippines campaign (Axis) Pacific Front: 1941-12-10 United States Japan: Axis Aparri
This is a list of military operations in Europe on the Eastern Front of World War II. These were operations by Germany and its allies on one side and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other and were a consequence of the German invasion in 1941. The geographic boundaries have blurred edges.
The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II which primarily involved combat between the nations and allies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Combat in the Eastern Front began with the two powers remaining peaceful towards each other, with the annexation of countries such as Albania and portions of Poland by Germany and its allies, and the annexation of Finland and the rest of Poland by ...
Eastern Front; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Poznań, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...
Pacific theater of operations is a generic term, in US military history, for all campaigns in the Pacific during World War II. Pacific campaign may also refer to the following campaigns in other wars: Pacific Coast campaign (Mexican–American War) (1846–1848) United States Navy operations during the Mexican–American War; Pacific campaign ...
Between 1942 and 1945, there were four main areas of conflict in the Pacific War: China, the Central Pacific, South-East Asia and the South West Pacific. US sources refer to two theaters within the Pacific War: the Pacific theater and the China Burma India Theater (CBI). However, these were not operational commands.