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Middle Eastern Front: 1941-06-18 1941-06-21 United Kingdom Australia Free France Vichy France: Allies Merdjayoun: Syria–Lebanon campaign: Middle Eastern Front: 1941-06-19 1941-06-24 United Kingdom Australia Vichy France: Allies Palmyra: Syria–Lebanon campaign: Middle Eastern Front: 1941-06-21 1941-07-02 United Kingdom Vichy France: Allies
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 ...
Battles and operations of World War II involving the Soviet Union (9 C, 26 P) Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War (13 C, 168 P) Battle of Stalingrad (4 C, 29 P)
Operations listed here are some of the better known strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II, and exclude operations by partisans or "Home Armies". These are included under List of World War II military operations. Names of other operations have not been recorded and these have become known by their regional objective. [1]
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 ...
Dubbed "Artus" by German Foreign Ministry. See IRA Abwehr World War II for all IRA Abwehr involvement. Karneval (1945) – airdrop of agents near Brussels and Waal; Mosul (1944) – air drop of agents and supplies near Mosul; Pastorius (1942) – separate landings of German agents on the US east coast with objective of industrial sabotage.
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 ...
The battle was the final strategic offensive that the Germans were able to launch on the Eastern Front. Because the Allied invasion of Sicily began during the battle, Adolf Hitler was forced to divert troops training in France to meet the Allied threat in the Mediterranean, rather than using them as a strategic reserve for the Eastern Front. [ 63 ]