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The British referred to this theatre as the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre (so called due to the location of the fighting and the name of Middle East Command), the Americans called it the Mediterranean Theater of War and the German informal official history of the fighting is the Mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa 1939 ...
Emblem of the Middle East Command. Middle East Command, later Middle East Land Forces, was a British Army Command established prior to the Second World War in Egypt.Its primary role was to command British land forces and co-ordinate with the relevant naval and air commands to defend British interests in the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean region.
The Battle of Palmyra was part of the Allied invasion of Syria during the Syria-Lebanon campaign in World War II that took place from 21 June to 2 July 1941. British mechanised cavalry and an Arab Legion desert patrol broke up a Vichy French mobile column north-east of the city of Palmyra. This provoked the surrender of the Vichy garrison at ...
List of military operations in the Nordic countries during World War II; Invasion of Denmark and Norway (April–June 1940) Continuation War (June 25, 1941 – September 19, 1944) Lapland War (October 1, 1944 – April 25, 1945) Liberation of Finnmark (October 23, 1944 – April 26, 1945)
RAF Middle East Command was formed on 29 December 1941 following the redesignation of RAF Middle East. [1] During the early part of the Second World War , the Command was one of the three British commands in the Middle East, the others being the British Army 's Middle East Command and the Royal Navy 's Mediterranean Fleet .
The Eastern Front concluded with the capture of Berlin, followed by the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender on 8 May, a day that marked the end of the Eastern Front and the War in Europe. The battles on the Eastern Front of World War II constituted the largest military confrontation in history. [9]
Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of U.S. Army Forces in the Middle East, later Africa-Middle East Theater. United States Army Forces in the Middle East (USAFIME) was a unified United States Army command during World War II established in August, 1942 by order of General George C. Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, to oversee the Egypt-Libya campaign.
This is a list of military operations in Europe on the Eastern Front of World War II. These were operations by Germany and its allies on one side and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other and were a consequence of the German invasion in 1941. The geographic boundaries have blurred edges.