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The largest air-sea battle in history. • Operation Queen: was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the Western Front between Aachen and the Rur river. • Battle of Mindoro • Battle of Vianden: The only major open battle fought between the Luxembourgish Resistance against German forces. • Battle of the Bulge
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to World War II : World War II, or the Second World War was a global military conflict that was fought between September 1, 1939, and September 2, 1945. The war pitted two major military alliances against each other: the Allies of the United States, Soviet Union, United ...
743–724 BCE First Messenian War. 710–650 BCE Lelantine War. circa 700–601 BCE Alban war with Rome. 685–668 BCE Second Messenian War. 669–668 BCE Sparta–Argos War. 600–265 BCE Greek–Punic Wars. 595–585 BCE First Sacred War. 560 BCE Second Arcadian War. 540 BCE Battle of Alalia.
OdB and history of units having taken part to the Falaise pocket battle at memorial-montormel.org(en/fr) Canadiansoldiers.com [dead link] Regiments.org; U.S. Army official site; Maj-Gen Hubert Essame, The 43rd Wessex Division at War 1944–45, London: William Clowes, 1952. [NB: Personnel are given for whole North West Europe campaign].
first major American airborne assault. resulted in Free French control of French West Africa and Anglo-American occupation of western French North Africa. lead to full German occupation of Vichy France. Battle of the Kasserine Pass. February 19, 1943. February 25, 1943. Kasserine Pass, Tunisia. Tunisia Campaign. 6,500.
Normandy landings. / 49.34; -0.60. The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
Western Front (1944–1945) Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) commanded Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until May 1945. Battle of Normandy (June–August 1944) Northern France Campaign (July–September 1944) Southern France Campaign ( Operation Dragoon) (August–September 1944) Battle of the Siegfried ...
Lists of aerial operations and battles. Air raids on Australia, 1942–1943. Air raids on Hong Kong during WWII. Aircraft carrier operations during World War II. List of air operations during the Battle of Europe. List of Allied attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz. List of strategic bombing over Germany in World War II.