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2 giorni fa · Developments from autumn 1943 to summer 1944 Sicily and the fall of Mussolini, July–August 1943. Hitler’s greatest strategic disadvantage in opposing the Allies’ imminent reentry into Europe lay in the immense stretch of Germany’s conquests, from the west coast of France to the east coast of Greece.
3 giorni fa · This is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period. Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat ...
3 giorni fa · By May 1944, 1.5 million American troops had arrived in the United Kingdom. Most were housed in temporary camps in the south-west of England, ready to move across the Channel to the western section of the landing zone.
1 giorno fa · The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie; German: Warschauer Aufstand), shortly after the war also known as the August Uprising (Polish: powstanie sierpniowe), was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.
5 giorni fa · Warsaw Uprising, (August-October 1944), insurrection in Warsaw during World War II by which Poles unsuccessfully tried to oust the German army and seize control of the city before it was occupied by the advancing Soviet army.
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3 giorni fa · In support of the landings on the Marshalls, the U.S. fleet on February 17, 1944, started a series of day and night attacks against the Japanese base at Truk in the Caroline Islands, where they destroyed some 300 aircraft and 200,000 tons of merchant shipping.
5 giorni fa · On July 4, 1944, Task Force 58 undertook a coordinated attack against several strategically significant islands, further cementing American dominance in the region. Iwo Jima, a volcanic island that would later be the scene of one of the most iconic battles of the Pacific War, was among the targets of these operations.
