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Operation Sonnenblume (Unternehmen Sonnenblume, "Operation Sunflower") was the name given to the dispatch of German and Italian troops to North Africa in February 1941, during the Second World War. The Italian 10th Army ( 10ª Armata ) had been destroyed by the British, Commonwealth, Empire and Allied Western Desert Force attacks during ...
The Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant was originally known as the Sunflower Ordnance Works. Established in 1941 on 10,747 acres (43.492 km 2 ), it was the world's largest smokeless powder plant. Among the over 10,000 acres of the site was the former community of Prairie Center.
This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 [update] this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states.
The Western Desert campaign (Desert War) took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya and was the main theatre in the North African campaign of the Second World War.Military operations began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war and the Italian invasion of Egypt from Libya in September.
Operation Sunflower, the 1941 World War II deployment of German troops to North Africa; Operation Sunflower, the 1944 World War II German attempt to hold back the advancing Allied Forces in the Battle of Normandy; Sunflower Student Movement, a series of protests that took place in Taiwan in 2014
HMS Sunflower was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War. She was built at Smith's Dock Company, South Bank on Tees and launched on 19 August 1940. She was sold on 17 May 1947 and scrapped at Hayle, Cornwall, in September 1947. HMS Sunflower was the most
OMAHA BEACH, Easy Red sector or environs: [1] At 0:39, this clip shows a large cadre of men running up a foggy beach covered in Czech hedgehogs (Shot by USCG Chief Photographer's Mate David C. Ruley [2]) Beachhead to Berlin is a 20-minute Warner Brothers film with narration and a fictionalized framing device that makes extensive use of USGS color footage of D-Day preparations and beach ...
The Battle of the Duisburg Convoy (Battle of the BETA Convoy) was fought on the night of 8/9 November 1941 between an Italian convoy, its escorts and four British ships.The convoy was named BETA (Duisburg refers to the largest ship) by the Italian naval authorities and carried supplies for the Italian Army (Regio Esercito) civilian colonists and the Afrika Korps in Italian Libya.