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Title (with link to full video) General topic(s) Synopsis 1. October 26, 1952 "Design for War" Battle of the Atlantic, 1939–1941: World War II begins with the Germans invading Poland and France. But German forces are restrained by the British thanks to the vital convoys, Canadian and American naval forces' initial involvement and the Lend ...
The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed. • Battle of Peleliu: A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific. • Battle of Aachen: Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion during World War II. • Battle of the ...
Eastern Front; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Poznań, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...
The First Battle of Kiev was the German name for the major battle that resulted in an encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II, the capital and most populous city of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. [8] This encirclement is the largest encirclement in the history of warfare by number of troops.
27 January: The first World War II US mission flown against the German homeland bombs Kriegsmarine submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven. [27]: 107 5/6 March: The first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr [2] flew RAF Bomber Command's 100,000th sortie of World War II, with 160 acres destroyed and 53 Krupps buildings bombed at Essen.
The Western Allied invasion of Germany was coordinated by the Western Allies during the final months of hostilities in the European theatre of World War II.In preparation for the Allied invasion of Germany east of the Rhine, a series of offensive operations were designed to seize and capture its east and west banks: Operation Veritable and Operation Grenade in February 1945, and Operation ...
Battle 360° Tony Long 2008 Germany Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss: Felix Moeller: 2008 Netherlands Tulip Time: The Rise and Fall of the Trio Lescano: Tonino Boniotti, Marco De Stefanis: 2008 Latvia The Soviet Story: Edvīns Šnore: 2008 United Kingdom World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West: Laurence Rees ...
Highest net casualty for U.S. forces during World War II; Resulted in Allied liberation of Luzon; Battle of Manila: February 3, 1945 March 3, 1945 Manila, Philippines Philippines campaign (1944–45) 6,575 (1,010 killed and 5,565 wounded) [3] Allied victory Japan One of the most intense urban battles fought by American forces during the war