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The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed. • Battle of Peleliu: A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific. • Battle of Aachen: Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion during World War II. • Battle of the ...
An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...
Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1918–1941) Timeline of Sweden during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Netherlands during World War II (1939–1945) Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II
Invasion of Iceland; Battle of Imphal; Japanese invasion of French Indochina; Invasion of Val d'Aran; Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran; Italian invasion of British Somaliland; Italian invasion of Egypt; Allied invasion of Italy; Battle of Iwo Jima
Order of Battle: Pacific is a computer wargame video game developed by The Artistocrats and published by Slitherine Software for Windows on April 30, 2015. [1] The game became free-to-play and was renamed to Order of Battle: World War II on June 14, 2016. [2] The Pacific campaign became downloadable content (DLC) for World War II. [3]
Leningrad strategic defensive operation order of battle; Invasion of Leyte naval order of battle; Leyte Gulf order of battle; List of Allied forces in the Normandy campaign; List of Allied warships in the Normandy landings; List of orders of battle for the British 7th Armoured Division; Lorraine campaign order of battle; Luftwaffe order of ...
This is the order of battle for Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. It was fought between the German -led Axis Forces and the Soviet Forces . The operation started on June 22, 1941, and ended on December 5, 1941, after Operation Typhoon .
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all the world's countries—including all the great powers—participated, with many investing all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between military and ...