Alphabetical
list of battles: Europe  |
| Abyssinia:
Mussolini and Abyssinia |
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Achtmaal:
liberation of Achtmaal |
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Anzio Italy
during the early morning hours of 22 January 1944, troops of the Fifth Army
swarmed ashore on a fifteen-mile stretch of Italian beach near the prewar resort
towns of Anzio and Nettuno |
| Ardennen |
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Ardennes: battle of the Bulge
the Ardennes, battle of the Bulge. The Battle of the Bulge began with the German attack (Operation Wacht am Rhein and the Herbstnebel
plan) on the morning of December 16, 1944. Two later attacks on New Year's Day
1945 attempted to create second fronts in Holland (Operation Schneeman)
and in northern France (Operation Nordwind). |
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Ardennes: battle of the Bulge
the Ardennes, battle of the Bulge |
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Ardennes: battle of the Bulge |
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Ardennes: battle of the Bulge |
| La Bataille des Ardennes |
| Arnhem
the action, during the Second World War, of the British 1st Airborne Division
(with the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade) |
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Arnhem: battle of Arnhem
battle of Arnhem |
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Arnhem: battle of Arnhem
archive by september 1944, the Second World War had almost reached a
conclusion. The Allied armies had rapidly pushed the disorganised Germans
almost completely out of France and Belgium, and it was here that the front
line stood, several miles short of the Dutch border |
| Arnhem
battle research group |
| Arnhem: Market garden on 17 September 1944 thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky by parachute or glider up to 150 km behind enemy lines. Their goal: to secure to
bridges across the rivers in Holland so that the Allied army could advance rapidly northwards and turn left into the lowlands of Germany |
| Arnhem: Market Garden |
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Attrition
- 1944 one of bloodiest and most difficult for Patton's 3rd army |
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Attrition
- 1944 |
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Balkan the German campaigns in the Balkans (Spring 1941) |
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Balkan catastrophe |
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Barbarossa
The German Invasion Of Russia |
| Bastogne |
| Battle for Termoli,
oct 3, 1943 |
| Battle of Blerick
dedicated to the men of the 49th APCR/RTR and their involvement during WOII |
| Battle of Britain
history of the second world war designed for the internet. Covering topics as
the leaders, the battles, the victories, Churchill, Hitler, RAF, Luftwaffe, Battle of Britain, Blitz, London,
Germany, pilots, planes, RAF, Luftwaffe, kills, medals, shotdown, battle, air, attack, airman, britain, Battle of Britain, England, Germany, losses, crew, airfield, Churchil, Dowding, radar, goering, hitler, spitfire, hurricane, messerschmitt, heinkel, junkers, stuka, dornier, bristol, blenheim, beaufighter |
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Battle of Britain the official reports of the most important event in Royal
Air Force history, the Battle fought over Britain between the 10th July and 31st
October 1940 |
| Battle of Britain
compendium of information |
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Battle
of Leros, Greece island |
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Battle of the Atlantic the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign
of the Second World War. It was also perhaps the most crucial. For Britain it
began on the first day of the war and continued until the last, almost six years
later |
| Battle
of the Atlantic submarine, U-boat, unterseeboot, U-505, U-571, U-110, Guadalcanal |
| Battle
of the Atlantic what a miserable, rotten hopeless life . . . an Atlantic
so rough it seems impossible that we can continue to take this unending
pounding and still remain in one piece . . . |
| Battle
of the Atlantic |
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Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence |
| Battle of the Scheldt |
| Before taps
sounded the story of a 1st division infantryman in the 1st Division in
North Africa, Sicily and Normandy during World War II |
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Bigonville 1940-1945 |
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Blerick
the perfect battle of Blerick |
| Blitz
page this was the British name for the Luftwaffe's sustained night attacks
against their cities from August 1940 to midway 1941 |
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Blitzkrieg |
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Blitzkrieg
1940 in the early morning darkness of May 10, the Germans unleashed their
Blitzkrieg against the Netherlands and Belgium |
| Crete: battle of Crete
Crete was the scene of the largest German Airborne operation of the war, and
the first time in history that an island had been taken by airborne assault |
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Crete: battle of Crete
on the morning of 20th May, 1941, the Germans launched the first airborne invasion in history |
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Crimean
campaign - 1942 |
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D-Day |
| D-Day
D-Day staat voor decision, in
Dutch |
| D-Day
the American experience D-Day |
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D-Day |
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D-Day |
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D-Day
the D-Day landings in Normandy on 6th June 1944, and the start of the successful
liberation of Europe |
| D-Day
: Normandy, France june 6, 1944 D-Day, Normandy, Utah Beach, Omaha Beach, Gold, Sword, Pegasus Bridge, 82nd,
101st airborne |
| D-Day on the
web |
| Desert
dawn North Africa before Rommel |
| Dieppe
august 19, 1942 |
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Dieppe Raid |
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Dieppe Raid |
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Dieppe Raid 1942 the Dieppe Raid on August 19, 1942 lasted only nine hours,
but cost nearly 1000 lives |
| Dresden:
Winston Churchill and Dresden |
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Dunkirk: fall of the low countries and France including "Retreat to Dunkerque" |
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Dunkirk Dunkirk 1940 |
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Dunkirk |
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Dunkirk |
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Dunkirk evacuation 1940 |
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Dunkirk: the miracle of Dunkirk more than 300,000 troops were
evacuated from Dunkirk and the surrounding beaches in May and June 1940 |
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Duinkerken:
operatie Dynamo
the miracle of Dunkirk, in Dutch |
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Eben Emael: glider assault on Eben Emael |
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El-Alamein Before the dawn on 31 September 1942 Erwin Rommel struck against
the British positions around el-Alamein - a town in close approaches to
Alexandria |
| El
Alamein |
| El
Alamein The Battle of El Alamein did much to restore British morale during
World War Two, and is remembered by the Allied forces with pride |
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El
Alamein |
| Falaise - August
13th - World War Two |
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Falaise
gap Falaise gap |
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Falaise pocket |
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Falaise pocket |
| German
campaigns in the Balkans: 1941 |
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Glieres: battle of Glieres a fight for honour |
| Grebbeberg
10 mei 1940 valt het Duitse leger Nederland binnen, in
Dutch |
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Interactive Map of World War II- The European Theater |
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Italian campaign september 1943 --> may 1945,
a chronology of events of the Italian campaign in world war 2 |
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Kielce, Poland 1945 |
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Kursk
The Battle of Kursk or Kursk Campaign (July 4 – July 20, 1943), also called
Operation Citadel (German: Unternehmen Zitadelle) by the German Army, was a
major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II and the last German blitzkrieg
offensive in the east as well as the last German offensive of such scale in the
war |
| Kursk |
| Kursk Pages on DialSpace
the greatest tank battle in history, july 1943, Kursk: battle of Kursk was one of the shortest tank battles it is considered to be
perhaps the largest tank battle in history |
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Leningrad: battle of Leningrad
battle of Leningrad |
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Leningrad animated |
| London blitz, 1940 |
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Lorraine campaign |
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Lorraine
campaign: an overview, sept - dec 1944 |
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Malta |
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Malta: a
photographic record of Malta during World War 2 |
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Malta:
'The Verdun of the Naval War' |
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Malta
convoys |
| Maginot
line |
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Metz 1944 |
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Monte
Cassino |
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Monte Cassino The 'hills of hell' |
| Monte Cassino and the Italian
campaign |
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Monte Cassino: battle of Monte Cassino
The Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle
for Cassino) was a costly series of four battles during World War II, fought by
the Allies with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing
Rome |
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Monte Cassino falls to the Allies |
| Moscow |
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Moscow |
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Moscow: battle of Moscow
during the battle for Kiev, when the success of German
armies was designated, German High Command developed the offensive plan to the
Moscow |
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Moselle river
crossing - 94th Armored FA Battalion |
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Naples-Foggia 9 september 1943 --> 21 january 1944 |
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Nijmegen 1944-1945
tribute to those who participated in the liberation of Nijmegen during 1944 - 1945 |
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Mount Froid: battle of Mount Froid the highest battle in Europe |
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Normandy |
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Normandy Normandy 6 june --> 24 july 1944 |
| Normandy 1944
buildup, invasion, fighting inland, breakout, Normandy in memory, Invasion of Normandy
the Allied invasion of Hitler's "Fortress Europe" began in the early morning
hours of June 6, 1944 when American and British paratroops dropped behind the
intended invasion beaches to disrupt German communications. At dawn, the sea
invasion began as an Allied Armada disgorged thousands of troops at five beaches
along France's Normandy coast |
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Normandy 1944
june 6 -->august 13th - august 25th |
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Normandy 1944,
Juno Beach Encyclopædia Britannica tells the story of the Normandy Invasion
through the spoken recollections of veterans who fought it, the newsreels that
brought the news home, and the written words of historians who have dedicated
years to studying the great campaign |
| Normandy
devoted to the German forces in Normandy |
| Normandy
the main phases of the Battle of Normandy, the Battle of Normandy lasted nearly
three months |
| Normandy allies |
| Normandy:
in desperate battle: 1944 |
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Normandy invasion
chronology a chronology of the Normandy invasion of June, 1944, from D Minus
1 (June 5) through D Plus 21 (June 27) |
| Normandy
invasion: the story in pictures |
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Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, Allied naval, air and ground forces
operating with airborne assault troops and paratroopers overwhelmed the German
"West Wall" defenses built along France's Channel Coast. Fortunately for the
Allies the Germans had waited too long to begin construction of their main
defenses, and had kept their vaunted panzer divisions out of immediate support
range of the landing zone defenders |
| Normandy:
operation overlord |
| North
Africa North African campaign of world war II |
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North Apennines 10 september 1944 --> 4 april 1945 |
| Norway 1940
dedicated to the struggle of Norway in the spring of 1940 |
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Odessa
1941 |
| Operatie
Husky: de geallieerden landen op Sicilië in Dutch |
| Operation Barbarossa
on June 22,1941, at 0300 hours, over three million German troops began the surprise attack on Russia along a two
thousand mile front, code name : operation Barbarossa. It would become the largest theatre of operations in World War II |
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Operation Barbarossa
map animated |
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Operation Barbarossa
Final plan for operation Barbarossa |
| Operation husky
Operation Husky Order of Battle is a listing of the significant formations that
were involved in the campaign for Sicily, July 10 – August 17, 1943 |
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Operation husky
Operation Husky - the Invasion of Sicily was the start of the Allies assault on
German occupied Europe. Churchill described Sicily and Italy as the soft
underbelly of Europe but there were many hard fought battles |
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Operation husky
The decision to invade Sicily was agreed by the Western Allies at the Casablanca
Conference in January 1943. 'Operation Husky' was to be a combined amphibious
and airborne attack scheduled for that summer under the supreme command of
General Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Operation
market garden 2 the battle of Arnhem in september 1944 |
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Operation
Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat |
| Operation
neptune |
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Operation Overlord Follow the Allies as they land on the Normandy coast on 6
June 1944, that will forever be known as D-Day, ... |
| Paris: chronology of the liberation |
| Peeldorp
Mill in Dutch |
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Persian corridor
and aid to Russia |
| Po
valley 1945 5 april --> 8 may 1945 |
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Poland: Nazi Blitzkrieg: Poland, 1939 a Polish officer's account of the battles and personal losses during the invasion by Hitler and Stalin |
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Polish
campaign and world war II |
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Polish
campaign |
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Rome-Arno 1944
22 january --> 9 september 1944 |
| Ruhr: battle of the Ruhr
in World War II, the Rhineland and the Ruhr area were primary targets of the
Western Allies' air forces |
| Saint Malo |
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Sandomierz: battle for Sandomierz Bulge – august of 1944 |
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Sedjenane the battle of Sedjenane, The 16th battalion Durham light Infantry
1940 |
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Seelow Heights
Seelow: assault at Seelow, The Battle For The Seelow Heights |
| Seelow Heights: Assault at Seelow Heights |
| Sicily 1943 |
| Sicily: conquest of Sicily |
| Sinking of the Repulse and Prince of Wales, Dec. 10, 1941 |
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Siegfried line: battle of the Siegfried line
battle of the Siegfried line |
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Soviet Fronts in
WWII |
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Stalingrad
on June 22, 1941, the German Army poured across the borders of the Soviet Union |
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Stalingrad |
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Stalingrad |
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Stalingrad
it began on the steppe-lands lying between the Volga and Don rivers, on the distant approaches to the city; gradually more and more forces were introduced
into the fighting, which finally encompassed an area of over 100,000 square kilometres, Stalingrad
aerial photos 1941-1942 |
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St-Lo 7
july --> 19 july 1944 |
| St. Petersburg, Russia: 900-day
siege of Leningrad |
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Taman
bridgehead - 1943 |
| Tobruk
Simultaneously with the military campaigns unfolded in the Soviet Union, also
the African campaign was continued. In order to help the Italians, still being
severely beaten by the British, the German Supreme Command sent to the
Mediterranean theatre the German African Corps |
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Utah beach to
Cherbourg 6--> 27 june 1944 |
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Vosges offensive: 44th
infantry division |
| War gunner
photos, links and information on the British expeditionary forces, Vimy Ridge, Dunkirk and North Africa from the perspective of an soldier |
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Warsaw uprising |
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Warsaw rising |
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Winterwar: battles of the winter
war the war between Finland and the Soviet Union during the winter of 1939
- 1940 |
| Winterwar
the Finnish-Soviet " winter war" 1939-1940 information, Finnish forces, Soviet forces, tactics used, battles of winter war, finnish weapons, Soviet weapons,
motti tactics, raate road, battle of suomussalmi, the summa area, kuhmo battles, marshal mannerheim, mannerheim
line, see also lessons
of winterwar the Winter War erupted on 30 November 1939, when Stalin unleashed his Red Army in an all-out assault against Finland. In August that
year Stalin and Hitler had divided eastern Europe between them in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, leaving Finland isolated in the Soviet sphere of
influence |
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