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| x Battle of Hurtgen Forest |
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The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U.S. and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, which became the longest battle on German ground during...
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| x July 20 Plot |
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The 20 July plot of 1944 was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, inside his "Wolf's Lair" field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of the German Resistance to...
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| x Second Sino-Japanese War |
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The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany (until 1938) and the...
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| x Pacific Theater of Operations |
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The Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) was the World War II area of military activity in the Pacific Ocean and the countries bordering it, a geographic scope that reflected the operational and administrative command structures of the American...
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| x Battle of Bir Hakeim |
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Bir Hakeim (sometimes written Bir Hacheim) is a remote oasis in the Libyan desert, and the former site of a Turkish fort. During the Battle of Gazala the First Free French Division of General Marie Pierre Koenig defended the site from 26 May to 11...
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| x Antique province |
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Antique is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital is San Jose and is located at the western portion of Panay Island, bordering Aklan, Capiz, and Iloilo to the east. Antique faces the Sulu Sea to the west....
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| x Battle of Rennell Island |
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The Battle of Rennell Island (Japanese: レンネル島沖海戦) took place on January 29, 1943 – January 30, 1943, and was the last major naval engagement between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the lengthy Guadalcanal campaign in the...
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| x Battles of Narvik |
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The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April until 8 June 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian city of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of World War II.
The two naval...
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| x Battle of the Java Sea |
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The Battle of the Java Sea was a major naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied navies suffered a disastrous defeat at the hand of the Imperial Japanese Navy, on February 27, 1942, and in secondary actions over successive days....
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| x Battle of Savo Island |
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The Battle of Savo Island, also known as the First Battle of Savo Island and, in Japanese sources, as the First Battle of the Solomon Sea (第一次ソロモン海戦, Dai-ichi-ji Soromon Kaisen), was a naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II, between...
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| x Operation Agreement |
During World War II, Operation Agreement consisted of ground and amphibious attacks by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand forces and SIG on German and Italian-held Tobruk (Operation Agreement), Benghazi (Operation Bigamy), Jalo oasis (Operation...
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| x Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands |
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The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 26, 1942, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Santa Cruz or in Japanese sources as the Battle of the South Pacific (南太平洋海戦), was the fourth carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II and...
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| x Wilno Uprising |
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Operation Ostra Brama (lit. Operation Sharp Gate) was an armed conflict during World War II between the Polish Home Army and the Nazi German occupiers of Vilnius (Polish: Wilno). It began on July 7, 1944, as part of a Polish national uprising,...
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| x Falaise pocket |
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The battle of the Falaise Pocket, fought during the Second World War from 12–21 August 1944, was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy. Taking its name from the area around the town of Falaise within which the German Seventh and Fifth...
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| x Tunisia Campaign |
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The Tunisia Campaign (also known as the Battle of Tunisia) was a series of World War II battles that took place in Tunisia in the North African Campaign of World War II, between Axis and Allied forces. The Allies consisted primarily of British...
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| x Battle of Gazala |
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The Battle of Gazala was an important battle of the the Second World War Western Desert Campaign, fought around the port of Tobruk in Libya from May 26 to June 21, 1942. The combatants on the Axis side were the Panzer Army Afrika, consisting of...
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| x Battle of Cape Esperance |
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The Battle of Cape Esperance, also known as the Second Battle of Savo Island and, in Japanese sources, as the Sea Battle of Savo Island (サボ島沖海戦), took place October 11 – 12, 1942, and was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II...
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| x Sutjeska offensive |
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The Battle of the Sutjeska (Serbo-Croatian: Bitka na Sutjesci), codenamed Fall Schwarz, was a joint attack by the Axis taking place from 15 May to 16 June 1943, which aimed to destroy the main Yugoslav Partisan force, near the Sutjeska river in...
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| x Battle of Halbe |
The Battle of Halbe (German: Kessel von Halbe, Russian: Хальбский "котел", Halbe cauldron) lasted from April 24 to May 1, 1945 was a battle in which the German Ninth Army, under the command of Colonel General Theodor Busse was destroyed as a...
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| x Battle of Kiev |
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The Battle of Kiev was the German name for the operation that resulted in a very large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II. It is considered the largest encirclement of troops in history. The operation continued...
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| x Battle of Greece |
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The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, German: Unternehmen Marita) was a World War II battle that occurred on the Greek mainland and in southern Albania. The battle was fought between the Allied (Greece and the British Commonwealth)...
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| x Battle of Makassar Strait |
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The Battle of Makassar Strait, also known as the Action of Madura Strait, the Action North of Lombok Strait and the Battle of the Flores Sea, was a naval battle of the Pacific theatre of World War II. An American-British-Dutch-Australian Command...
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| x Battle of Badung Strait |
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The Battle of Badung Strait was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the night of 19–20 February 1942 in Badung Strait between the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA) and the Imperial Japanese Navy. In the...
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| x Battle of Ambon |
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The Battle of Ambon occurred on the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), on 30 January – 3 February 1942, during World War II. A Japanese invasion was resisted by Dutch and Australian forces. The chaotic and sometimes bloody...
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| x Namsos campaign |
In April and early May, 1940 Namsos and its surrounding area were the scene of heavy fighting between Anglo-French, Polish and Norwegian naval and military forces on the one hand, and German military, naval and air forces on the other. It was one of...
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| x Battle of Uman |
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The "Battle of Uman" (July 15 – August 8, 1941) was an English name given to the German encirclement of the 6th (General Lieutenant I.N. Muzyrchenko) and 12th (General Major P.G. Ponedelin) Soviet armies south of the city of Uman during the initial...
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| x Battle of the Seelow Heights |
The Battle of the Seelow Heights (German: Schlacht um die "Seelower Höhen"), was a part of the Seelow-Berlin Offensive Operation (16 April - 2 May, 1945); one of the last assaults on large entrenched defensive positions of World War II. It was...
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| x Mediterranean Theatre of World War II |
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The African, Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre of World War II encompasses the naval, land, and air campaigns fought between the Allied and Axis forces in the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and Africa. The fighting in this theatre lasted...
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| x Battle of Timor |
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The Battle of Timor (1942–43) occurred in Portuguese Timor and Netherlands Timor, during World War II. It involved forces from the Empire of Japan—which invaded on February 20, 1942—on one side and Allied military personnel, predominantly from...
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| x Battle of Pasir Panjang |
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The Battle of Pasir Panjang was initiated upon the advancement of elite Imperial Japanese Army forces towards Pasir Panjang at Pasir Panjang Ridge on 13 February 1942 during World War II in the Battle of Singapore.
13,000 Japanese troops had made an...
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| x Battle of the Scheldt |
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The Battle of the Scheldt was a series of military operations of the First Canadian Army, led by Lieutenant General Guy Simonds. The battle took place in northern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands during World War II from October 2, 1944 to...
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| x Operation Ke |
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Operation Ke (ケ号作戦) was the largely successful withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal at the conclusion of the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II. The operation took place between January 14 and February 7, 1943 and involved both army and...
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| x Buguias, Benguet |
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Buguias is a 4th class municipality in the province of Benguet, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 33,177 people in 6,312 households.
The name Buguias came from the word Bogey-yas, a popular Igorot settlement during...
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| x Mayoyao |
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Mayoyao is a 4th class municipality in the province of Ifugao, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 16,722 people in 2,917 households.
Mayoyao is politically subdivided into 27 barangays.
Beginning in 1945, the...
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| x Operation Rösselsprung |
The Raid on Drvar (Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Serbo-Croatian: Desant na Drvar), codenamed Operation Rösselsprung (German for "knight's move"), was an attack by the Waffen-SS and the Luftwaffe that aimed to disrupt the command structure of the...
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| x Colmar Pocket |
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Located in Alsace in eastern France, the Colmar Pocket (French: Poche de Colmar; (German: Brückenkopf Elsaß) was the site of a three-week operation during the Second World War, between 20 January and 9 February, 1945, where the French First Army and...
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| x Bougainville campaign |
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The Bougainville campaign occurred during World War II from November 1, 1943 to August 21, 1945, on and around Bougainville Island in the South Pacific, between forces of the Empire of Japan and the Allies. Bougainville, at that time, was part of...
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| x Battle of the Netherlands |
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The Battle of the Netherlands (Dutch: Slag om Nederland) was part of Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb), the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and France during World War II. The battle lasted from 10 May...
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| x Battle of Bukit Timah |
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The Battle of Bukit Timah was a battle fought during World War II on 11 February 1942 in Singapore between the Allied forces and the Japanese forces.
By the 10th of February, the Japanese had landed in full force on Singapore Island. They controlled...
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| x Battle of Białystok-Minsk |
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The Battle of Białystok–Minsk was a German strategic operation conducted by the Army Group Centre during penetration of the Soviet border region during the opening stage of Operation Barbarossa lasting from 22 to 29 June 1941. Its goal was...
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| x Battle of Krasny Bor |
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The Battle of Krasny Bor was fought between the German Wehrmacht's 250th Infantry Division, composed of Spanish volunteers, and the Soviet 55th Army by the village of Krasny Bor, Leningrad Oblast, northern Russia. The major clash took place on...
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| x Battle of Åndalsnes |
The Battle of Åndalsnes took place in Åndalsnes in Romsdal, Norway in 1940 during the Norwegian Campaign of World War II.
After the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, British troops landed in Åndalsnes as part of a pincer movement to take mid...
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| x Battle of Bautzen |
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The Battle of Bautzen (April 1945) fought on the extreme southern flank of the Spremberg–Torgau Offensive saw days of pitched street fighting between forces of the 2nd Polish Army, the Red Army's 52nd Army and remnants of the German 4th Panzer and...
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| x Japanese Tulagi landing |
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| x Battle of the Tenaru |
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The Battle of the Tenaru, sometimes called the Battle of the Ilu River or The Battle of Alligator Creek, took place August 21, 1942, on the island of Guadalcanal, and was a land battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, between Imperial...
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| x Battle of Leros |
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The Battle of Leros (Greek: Μάχη της Λέρου) was the central event of the Dodecanese Campaign of the Second World War, and is widely used as an alternate name for the whole campaign. Leros was occupied by British forces on September 15, 1943. The...
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| x Battle of Borneo |
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For campaigns on eastern Borneo, see Battle of Tarakan (1942) and Battle of Balikpapan (1942).
The Battle of Borneo was a successful campaign by Japanese Imperial forces for control of Borneo island and concentrated mainly with the subjugation of...
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| x Battle of Edson's Ridge |
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The Battle of Edson's Ridge, also known as the Battle of the Bloody Ridge, Battle of Raiders Ridge, and Battle of the Ridge, was a land battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Imperial Japanese Army and Allied (mainly United States...
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| x Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo |
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The Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo was a land battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, between Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied (mainly United States (U.S.) Marine) ground forces. It took place August 7–9, 1942, on the Solomon Islands...
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| x Makin Raid |
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The Makin Island Raid (pronounced, "Muggin") (occurred on August 17, 1942 – August 18, 1942) was an attack by the United States Marine Corps on Japanese military forces on Makin Island (now known as Butaritari Island) in the Pacific Ocean. The aim...
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| x Battle of Balikpapan |
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This article concerns the naval and land battles of Balikpapan in 1942. For information on the 1945 landings by Australian forces in the same area, see Battle of Balikpapan (1945).
The Battle of Balikpapan took place on January 23–24, 1942, off the...
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| x Battle of Crucifix Hill |
The Battle of Crucifix Hill was a World War II battle that took place on October 8, 1944, on Crucifix Hill (Haarberg) (Hill 239), next to the village of Haaren in Germany and was a part of the U.S. 1st Division's campaign to seize Aachen, Germany....
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| x Battle of Manado |
The Battle of Manado was a battle of the Pacific theatre of World War II. It occurred at Manado, at Minahasa peninsula on the northern island part of Celebes (now known as Sulawesi, between January 11–13, 1942 as an attempt to open a passage to...
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The Vienna Offensive was launched by the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front in order to capture Vienna, Austria. The offensive lasted from April 2 to April 13, 1945. The city of Vienna was surrounded and under siege for most of the offensive.
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| x Battle of Gabon |
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The Battle of Gabon or the Battle of Libreville was part of the West African Campaign of World War II fought in November 1940. The battle resulted in the Free French forces under General Charles de Gaulle taking Libreville, Gabon, and taking all of...
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| x Battle of Brody |
The Battle of Brody (other names in use include Battle of Dubna, Battle of Dubno, Battle of Rovne, Battle of Rovne-Brody) was a tank battle fought between the 1st Panzer Group's IIIrd, XXXXVIII Army Corps (Motorized) and five Soviet Mechanized Corps...
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| x Battle of Thermopylae |
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The Battle of Thermopylae during World War II occurred in 1941 following the retreat from the Olympus and Servia passes. British Commonwealth forces began to set up defensive position at the historic pass at Thermopylae. (Thermopylae is famous for...
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| x Operation Queen |
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Operation Queen was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the Western Front between Aachen and the Rur river in November 1944.
After the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, American and British forces had driven the German...
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| x Dodecanese Campaign |
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The Dodecanese Campaign of World War II was an attempt by Allied forces, mostly British, to capture the Italian-held Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea following the surrender of Italy in September 1943, and use them as bases against the German...
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| x Battle of Raseiniai |
The Battle of Raseiniai (23–27 June 1941) was a tank battle fought between the elements of the 4th Panzer Army and two Soviet Mechanized Corps in Lithuania 75 km northwest of Kaunas in the attempt by the commander of the Northwestern Front to...
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