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The following force was sent to France during the second week of June 1940 in an unsuccessful attempt to form a second British Expeditionary Force. This second formation was to be commanded by Lieutenant-General A. F. Brooke. All units were evacuated in late June 1940, during Operation Aerial.
Landing at Saidor order of battle; Battle of Saipan order of battle; Santa Cruz Islands order of battle; Savo Island order of battle; South African Army order of battle 1940; Structure of the Imperial Japanese forces in the South Seas Mandate; Soviet Air Forces order of battle 1 May 1945; Soviet order of battle for invasion of Poland in 1939
When the Battle of France began on 10 May 1940, the BEF constituted 10 per cent of the Allied forces on the Western Front. The BEF participated in the Dyle Plan , a rapid advance into Belgium to the line of the Dyle River , but the 1st Army Group had to retreat rapidly through Belgium and north-western France, after the German breakthrough ...
Order of battle Date British Expeditionary Force: 1940 British First Army: April 20, 1943 British First Army: May 4, 1943 British Long Range Penetration Groups (Chindits) 1943–1944 British Malaya Command: 1942 British RAF Coastal Command: September 1939 – June 1944 German Air Force: April 9, 1940 German Ninth Army: October 1941
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 ...
The Beauman Division was an improvised formation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) during the Second World War, which fought in France against the German 4th Army in June 1940, during Fall Rot (Case Red), the final German offensive of the Battle of France.
The division soon after deployed to France, as part of the British Expeditionary Force, and it then served on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. The war establishment, the on-paper strength, of an infantry division in 1914 was 18,179 men, 5,594 horses, 18 motor vehicles, 76 pieces of artillery, and 24 machine guns. While there was a small ...
USS Lexington explodes during the Battle of the Coral Sea. A formation of Spitfires shortly before World War II. 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 ...