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The occupation of Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul'un işgali) or occupation of Constantinople (12 November 1918 – 4 October 1923), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, by British, French, Italian, and Greek forces, took place in accordance with the Armistice of Mudros, which ended Ottoman participation in the First World War. The first French ...
Foo Fighter during WWII over Germany. The term foo fighters was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various unidentified flying objects or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.
16th Infantry Division; 57th Infantry Division; Dardanelles Fortified Area Command; V Corps 5th Infantry Division; 6th Infantry Division; 25th Infantry Division; Aegean and Mediterranean coasts XII Corps (1945 Gen. Nuri Berköz took command) 70th Infantry Division; 71st Infantry Division; 63rd Infantry Division; İzmir Fortified Area Command
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.
The British referred to this theatre as the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre (so called due to the location of the fighting and the name of Middle East Command), the Americans called it the Mediterranean Theater of War and the German informal official history of the fighting is the Mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa 1939 ...
Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – December 7, 1941) S-Plan (January 16, 1939 – March, 1940) Soviet–Japanese border conflicts (May 11, 1939 – September 16, 1939) Winter War (November 1939 – March 1940) Franco-Thai War (September 1, 1940 – May 9, 1941) Ecuadorian–Peruvian War (July 5, 1941 – January 31, 1942)
II) and 24 Shawwal (Chev.) 1274, in 1858; the organisation of the central city in the city walls, "Stamboul" (Turkish: İstanbul), was not affected by these laws. All of Constantinople (all of which today is now Istanbul) was in the Prefecture of the City of Constantinople (French: Préfecture de la Ville de Constantinople). [12]
On the upper floor there are rooms where objects from World War I, the Battle of Gallipoli, and the Turkish War of Independence, and uniforms from more recent times are displayed. There is also a room which is dedicated to Atatürk , who studied in the building when it was a military academy between 1899-1905.