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Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series is the first version of all three combat flight simulation games from Microsoft. It was released on 28 October 1998 and it is set in the European Theatre of World War II. This game spawned two sequels: Combat Flight Simulator 2 in 2000 and Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe in 2002.
Combat Wings is a World War II combat flight simulation video game series both developed and published by City Interactive Games.. The first game was World War II: Pacific Heroes, which was released on April 6, 2004, in Europe for Microsoft Windows and the latest game from the series is Dogfight 1942, which was released on September 5, 2012, worldwide, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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 ...
This was followed by another World War II simulation, Panzer Leader, in 1974. To update the rules for the faster tanks, guided missiles, and modern aircraft of the 1960s and 1970s, Russell Vane and Seth Carus revised and expanded the PanzerBlitz rules, resulting in The Arab-Israeli Wars , which was published by Avalon Hill in 1977 with artwork ...
A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. [1] Conventionally, the term is reserved for two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), although some historians have also characterized other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Nine ...
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.
Later during World War II, the British Indian Army became the largest all-volunteer force in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in size. Indian soldiers earned 30 Victoria Crosses during the Second World War. It suffered 87,000 military casualties (more than any Crown colony but fewer than the United Kingdom).
The First World War, subtitled "August 1914–November 1918", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1977 that simulates World War I.. The game is an expansion of the SPI "monster" game War in Europe, and does not come with maps; players must own a copy of War in Europe and must re-mark the World War II maps with fortifications and national boundaries ...