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The largest air-sea battle in history. • Operation Queen: 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
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–August 1944) Northern France Campaign (July–September 1944) Southern France Campaign ( Operation Dragoon) (August–September 1944) Battle of the Siegfried ...
first major American airborne assault. resulted in Free French control of French West Africa and Anglo-American occupation of western French North Africa. lead to full German occupation of Vichy France. Battle of the Kasserine Pass. February 19, 1943. February 25, 1943. Kasserine Pass, Tunisia. Tunisia Campaign. 6,500.
In all, 44 World War II campaigns were designated by the U.S. Army: 24 for the Asiatic – Pacific Theater, 19 in the European – African–Middle Eastern Theater, and one in the American Theater. In addition, there were three main blanket campaigns: antisubmarine warfare, ground combat and air combat. These were designated for each theater ...
Bishop (1945) – covering operation for Dracula. Diplomat (1944) – Allied exercise in preparation for joint operations against the Japanese. Dukedom (1945) – British search and destroy operation for Japanese cruiser Haguro. Exporter (1941) – British and Commonwealth invasion of Vichy French -held Syria.
Lists of aerial operations and battles. Air raids on Australia, 1942–1943. Air raids on Hong Kong during WWII. Aircraft carrier operations during World War II. List of air operations during the Battle of Europe. List of Allied attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz. List of strategic bombing over Germany in World War II.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to World War II : World War II, or the Second World War was a global military conflict that was fought between September 1, 1939, and September 2, 1945. The war pitted two major military alliances against each other: the Allies of the United States, Soviet Union, United ...
Normandy landings. / 49.34; -0.60. The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.