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The Battle of Dessau Bridge (German: Schlacht bei Dessau) was a significant battle of the Thirty Years' War between Danish Protestants and the Imperial German Catholic forces on the Elbe River outside Dessau, Germany on 25 April 1626.
- 25 April 1626
- Catholic victory
Only three days before the 3rd Armored Division's final combat action of WWII, a Super Pershing of the 33rd Armored Regiment met and defeated the most powerful and most heavily armored German tank of the war - the legendary 77-ton King Tiger, also known as the Tiger II or Tiger Royal.
18 apr 2024 · Albrecht von Wallenstein. Battle of Dessau, (25 April 1626). Following the catastrophic defeat it suffered at Stadtlohn, the German Protestant cause in the Thirty Years’ War seemed lost. There was new hope when Christian IV of Denmark entered the war in 1625, but the next year a Protestant army was bested at Dessau by imperial forces.
GERMANY. April 1945. Dessau. A transit camp was located between the American and Soviet zones organised for refugees; political prisoners, POW's, STO's (Forced Labourers), displaced persons, returning from the Eastern front of Germany that had been liberated by the Soviet Army. Soviet refugees on trains returning to their homeland..
The siege of Odessa, known to the Soviets as the defence of Odessa, lasted from 8 August until 16 October 1941, during the early phase of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II . Odessa was a port on the Black Sea in the Ukrainian SSR. On 22 June 1941, the Axis powers invaded the Soviet Union.
- 8 August – 16 October 1941 (2 months, and 8 days)
- Axis victory, Successful evacuation of Red Army troops, Subsequent 1941 Odessa massacre
- Odessa region, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
The first V-2 rockets struck London on September 8, 1944, with the final launches on March 27, 1945. In the nearly seven months of attacks more than 3,000 warheads hit Allied cities, including Antwerp, Liege, and Paris.
Battle of the Caucasus. Part of the Eastern Front of World War II. German tanks in formation in a Caucasus valley with infantry in the foreground, September 1942. Date. 25 July 1942 – 12 May 1944. ( 1942-07-25 – 1944-05-12) Location. Greater Caucasus, Soviet Union. Result.
