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Bombing of Bahrain in World War II; Aerial warfare during Operation Barbarossa; Battle of Bologna; Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan; Battle of Belgium order of battle; Bernhardt Line; Battle of Bir Hakeim; Black Friday (1945) Battle for Brest; Battle of Bréville; Battle of Bukit Timah
Battle of Britain Day: Battle of Britain: Western Front: 1940-09-15 United Kingdom Germany: Allies Graveney Marsh: Battle of Britain: Western Front: 1940-09-27 United Kingdom Germany: Allies Italian invasion of British Somaliland: East African campaign: African Front: 1940-08-03 1940-08-19 United Kingdom Australia South Africa Italy: Axis The ...
Colony of Jamaica; Accompong town Defeat of the Jamaican Maroons. Maroon surrender; Baptist War (1831–1832) Slave rebels Colony of Jamaica: Defeat of the Slave rebels. Rebellion suppressed; Morant Bay rebellion (1865) Jamaicans from Morant Bay (Jamaica Committee) British Empire: Failure of Jamaican rebels. Phillips v Eyre decided in Eyre's favour
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 ...
When the war began, about 450 Australian pilots were serving in the RAF. [6]Australia was among the first countries to declare war on Germany and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) was among the world's oldest air forces, having been formed in 1921; a predecessor, the Australian Flying Corps served during the First World War, in the Middle East and Europe, but was disbanded in 1919.
About 1.2 million Austrians served in all branches of the German armed forces during World War II. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, the Allies occupied Austria in four occupation zones set up at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic under the condition that it remained neutral.
The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, lit. 'air battle for England') was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
The Battle of the Caribbean refers to a naval campaign waged during World War II that was part of the Battle of the Atlantic, from 1941 to 1945. [3] German U-boats and Italian submarines attempted to disrupt the Allied supply of oil and other material. They sank shipping in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and attacked coastal targets ...