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Battle for Henderson Field: October 1942; Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942; Matanikau Offensive: November 1942; Koli Point action: November 1942; Carlson's Patrol: November–December 1942; Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. November 1942; Battle of Tassafaronga, November 1942; Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea ...
1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the Battle of El Alamein; the Jews of Salonika are rounded up for deportation to extermination camps; Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War fight the Battle of Stalingrad; USS Lexington (CV-2) under fire at the Battle of the Coral Sea; Reinhard Heydrich's car after attack by Czech resistance; 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking troops ...
The Battle of 42nd Street (27 May 1941) was fought during World War II on the Greek island of Crete.On 20 May, Nazi Germany launched an airborne invasion of Crete.A week later, after the British and Commonwealth forces defending the island had been forced to withdraw towards Chania, a force of several understrength Australian and New Zealand infantry battalions established a defensive line ...
282,606 in the 6th Army from 21 August to the end of the battle; 17,293 in the 4th Panzer Army from 21 August to 31 January; 55,260 in the Army Group Don from 1 December 1942 to the end of the battle (12,727 killed, 37,627 wounded and 4,906 missing) [148] [258] Walsh estimates the losses to 6th Army and 4th Panzer division were over 300,000 ...
Intended as a preparatory battle to the abandoned Western Allied invasions of Kyūshū and Honshu. Heavy civilian and combat casualties may have influenced U.S. decision to use atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Battle of Java Sea: February 27, 1942 February 27, 1942, Java Sea: Java Sea (2300 Americans Killed) Japanese victory
The campaign followed the successful Allied defensive actions at the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway in May and June 1942. Along with the battles at Milne Bay and Buna–Gona, the Guadalcanal campaign marked the Allies' transition from defensive operations to offensive ones, and effectively allowed them to seize the strategic ...
Battle of 42nd Street; A. ... Battle of Rzhev, summer 1942; Battle of Fort Driant; ... Media in category "Battles of World War II involving Germany"
The Battle of the St. Lawrence involved marine and anti-submarine actions throughout the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Strait of Belle Isle, Anticosti Island and Cabot Strait from May–October 1942, September 1943, and again in October–November 1944.