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The Donbas operation began on 13 August 1943 with the offensive of the right wing of the Southwestern Front. These troops forced the Donets river and advancing along the right bank of the river, helped the Steppe Front with the liberation of Kharkiv . On 16 August, the Southern Front troops went on the offensive and broke through the German ...
Map of Operation Kugelblitz, an anti-partisan offensive in occupied Yugoslavia. Axis forces were involved in counter-insurgency operations against the various resistance movements during World War II . During the Second World War, resistance movements that bore any resemblance to irregular warfare were frequently dealt with by the occupying ...
Müller-Hillebrand maintained that the OKW figures did not present an accurate accounting of German casualties because they understated losses in the final months of the war on the eastern front and post war deaths of POW in Soviet captivity. According to Müller-Hillebrand actual irrecoverable losses in the war were between 3.3 and 4.5 million men. Overall Müller-Hillebrand estimated the ...
On the Western Front, Hitler declared eleven major ports as fortresses on 19 January 1944: IJmuiden, the Hook of Holland, Dunkirk, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Le Havre, Cherbourg, Saint-Malo, Brest, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and the Gironde estuary. In February and March 1944 three more coastal areas were declared to be fortresses: the Channel Islands ...
Bibliography. v. t. e. This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II . Germany 's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by ...
Total: 1,029,234 (see § Casualties) The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between September 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler 's attack on Moscow, the capital and ...
2,500,000+ dead (1937–1945) [nb 4] Civilian deaths. 1,000,000+ [nb 5] The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, [36] was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vast ...
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