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The Battle of the Mediterranean was the name given to the naval campaign fought in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II, from 10 June 1940 to 2 May 1945.. For the most part, the campaign was fought between the Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina), supported by other Axis naval and air forces, those of Nazi Germany and Vichy France, and the British Royal Navy, supported by other Allied naval ...
Astrologer (1941) — failed attempt to run 2 unescorted transports to Malta; Avalanche (1943) — Allied landings near Salerno, Italy. Boardman (1943) — deception operation for Avalanche; Giant II — cancelled landing of U.S. 82nd Airborne near Rome. Battleaxe (1941) — failed British attack on Axis forces in North Africa to relieve Tobruk
The Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre was a major theatre of operations during the Second World War. The vast size of the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre saw interconnected naval, land, and air campaigns fought for control of the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe.
The United States Eighth Fleet was a numbered fleet of the United States Navy established 15 March 1943 from Northwest African Force. It operated in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II with a main mission of amphibious warfare, and then was active in 1946–47 as the heavy striking arm of the United States Atlantic Fleet.
The Mediterranean and Middle East. History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series. Vol. V: The Campaign in Sicily 1943 and The Campaign in Italy 3rd September 1943 to 31st March 1944. Uckfield, UK: Naval & Military Press. ISBN 1-84574-069-6.
The Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army (MTOUSA), originally called the North African Theater of Operations, United States Army (NATOUSA), was a military formation of the United States Army that supervised all U.S. Army forces which fought in North Africa and Italy during World War II. United States Army operations in the ...
In early July 1940, a British naval force with battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and the fleet carrier HMS Eagle sailed from Alexandria to the Mediterranean's central basin to protect two convoys from Malta to Alexandria and to find and destroy Italian naval forces. At the same time a greatly superior Italian Fleet of battleships, cruisers and ...
The surrender of Japan to Allied forces on the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. The United States Navy grew rapidly during its involvement in World War II from 1941–45, and played a central role in the Pacific War against Imperial Japan.