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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: German counterattack in Ardennes; General McAuliffe says "NUTS" at ...
Battle of France (with Benelux countries/Fall Gelb) (May–June 1940) Battle of Britain ( + Operation Sea Lion Unternehmen Seelöwe) (July–October 1940) 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 ...
Republican International Brigadiers on a Soviet T-26 tank at the Battle of Belchite, 1937 German Stuka dive bombers in the Eastern Front (World War II) 1941–45 A Soviet IS-2 tank in Leipzig during the 1953 East Germany Uprising Icelandic patrol ship ICGV Odinn and British frigate HMS Scylla clash during the Second Cod War A "Sniper at work ...
Battles and operations of World War II involving Germany (10 C, 40 P) ... Battles and operations of World War II involving the United Kingdom (9 C, 50 P)
The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat [nb 18] during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945.The Allied powers (including the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union and France) fought the Axis powers (including Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy) on both sides of the continent in the Western and Eastern fronts.
World War II operations and battles of the Italian Campaign (2 C, 60 P) Pages in category "Battles of World War II involving Germany" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 290 total.
The Phoney War was an early phase of World War II marked by a few military operations in Continental Europe in the months following the German invasion of Poland and preceding the Battle of France. Although the great powers of Europe had declared war on one another, neither side had yet committed to launching a significant attack, and there was ...
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.