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France to Portland Harbour: July 1944 August 1944 personnel convoys FTC France to River Thames: 1944 1944 FTM France to River Thames: 1944 1944 motor transport convoys FWC France to Isle of Wight: June 1944 FWL France to Isle of Wight: 1944 1944 landing craft convoys FWM France to Isle of Wight: June 1944 July 1944 motor transport convoys FWP
This is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period.
Winston Churchill ordered preparations of ships and vessels to evacuate British forces from the coast of France. German forces reached the English Channel . 21 May: The allied forces tried to counterattack the German forces but were repelled by another advancing German land force near Arras.
The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France.
The bulk of the forces of the Allies were French, although the United Kingdom (British Expeditionary Force), Netherlands, and Belgium had significant forces in the battle opposing Germany. Supreme Command was held by the French Commander-in-Chief Général d'armée Maurice Gamelin , his deputy Général d'armée Alphonse Joseph Georges was ...
Pages in category "Battles of World War II involving France" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A Map of West Florida (bottom right), the U.S. (top right) and Louisiana (left), published in 1781, showing Mobile in the center of West Florida. Mobile became a part of the "14th British colony", British West Florida, in 1763, when the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian War.
After the Fall of France, the battle to retake France began in Africa in November 1940. By September 1944, after the liberation of Paris and the southern France campaign and taking of Mediterranean ports in Marseille and Toulon, the country was largely liberated. The Allied Forces were driving into Germany from the west and the south.