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World War II: 1939 1945 383,700 67,100 450,900 World War II deaths; includes deaths from the Crown Colonies: Arab revolt in Palestine: 1936 1939 262 262 Iraqi revolt against the British: 1920 1920 1,000 5,000 Tauber, E., The Formation of Modern Syria and Iraq, pp. 312-314 Anglo-Irish War: 1919 1921 776 [7] 898 [7] 1,674 Military includes Royal ...
During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in action. [343] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [344]
The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat [nb 18] during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945.The Allied powers (including the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union and France) fought the Axis powers (including Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy) on both sides of the continent in the Western and Eastern fronts.
British casualties of World War II, persons in military service, combatants or non-combatants, who became unavailable for duty due to any of several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, capture or desertion.
The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France, followed by the UK's Dominions, Crown colonies and protectorates on Nazi Germany in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. There was ...
The number of Bulgarian partisan deaths against the "fascists" was 10,000. [26] 10,124 Bulgarian [26] and 21,035 Romanian deaths [27] were documented with the Allies. 1,036 Finns died in the Lapland War [28] and 8,000 Czech partisans were killed in the Prague Uprising. [24] The Allied casualties at the Eastern Front total at 8,900,000 deaths.
British and Canadian prisoners resting at Dieppe, August 1942 Dieppe was a German propaganda coup in which the Dieppe raid was described as a military joke, noting the amount of time needed to plan such an attack, combined with the losses suffered by the Allies, pointed only to incompetence. [ 74 ]
See: Bombing of Milan in World War II. Turin: Italy: June 1940 – April 1945 2,069 [7] –2,199 [8] RAF Bomber Command, USAAF: See: Bombing of Turin in World War II. Palermo: Italy: June 1940 – August 1943 2,123 [9] RAF, USAAF: See: Bombing of Palermo in World War II. London: United Kingdom: 7 September 1940 – May 1941 40,000-43,000 ...