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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 ...
Latter-Day Saints vs. Missouri citizens Citizens victory Crooked River: October 28, 1838 Crooked River: Missouri Mormon War Mormon-?, Missouri State Militia-1 division 4 Latter-Day Saints vs. Missouri State Militia Latter-Day Saints victory Haun's Mill: October 30, 1838 Caldwell County: Missouri Mormon War Mormon-?, Missouri State Militia-240 21
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Missouri for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC). However other USAAF commands (Air Technical Service Command ...
After the war, Eisenhower commented this "was some of the fiercest fighting of the whole war" and "a bitter slugging match in which the enemy had to be forced back yard by yard". Montgomery wrote "the enemy parachute troops fought with a fanaticism un-excelled at any time in the war" and "the volume of fire from enemy weapons was the heaviest ...
Moraviantown may refer to: Battle of Moraviantown, better known as Battle of the Thames; Moravian 47, Ontario, home of The Moraviantown Delaware Nation; Munsee language, spoken only on the Moraviantown Reserve in Ontario, Canada by five living people; Christian Munsee, also known as the Moravian Munsee
The Rhineland Offensive was a series of allied offensive operations by 21st Army Group commanded by Bernard Montgomery from 8 February 1945 to 25 March 1945, at the end of the Second World War. The operations were aimed at occupying the Rhineland and securing a passage over the Rhine river.
The Moravia–Ostrava offensive operation (Russian: Моравско-Остравская наступательная операция) was an offensive by the Red Army during World War II that lasted from March 10 to May 6, 1945, and was the Soviet conquest of present-day Eastern Czech Republic (Moravia also part of Polish and Czech Silesia).