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11 hours ago · Battle of Timor (1942–43) Battle of the Java Sea (1942) Battle of Sunda Strait (1942) Battle of Java (1942) Second Battle of the Java Sea (1942) Japanese Invasion of Rabaul, January–February 1942. Japanese attacks on Australia: February–June 1942. Bombing of Darwin: February 1942. Attack on Broome: March 1942.
- Battle of Mechili
The action at Mechili was an engagement between units of the...
- Battle of Nibeiwa
The Attack on Nibeiwa took place on 9 December 1940 near...
- Western Allied Invasion of France
Free France (French: France libre) was a political entity...
- Cocos Island Mutiny
The Cocos Islands mutiny was a failed mutiny by Sri Lankan...
- Allied Invasion of Sicily
The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of...
- Battle of Groningen
The Battle of Groningen took place during the penultimate...
- Battle of Roosevelt Ridge
The Battle of Roosevelt Ridge was fought between 21 July and...
- Battle for Velikiye Luki (1943)
Situation after the initial Soviet advance. The Battle of...
- Battle of Zeeland
The Battle of Zeeland occurred on the Western Front during...
- Naval Battle of Casablanca
The Naval Battle of Casablanca was a series of naval...
- Battle of Mechili
11 hours ago · The bomb, which led to a temporary cancellation of Eurostar trains to Paris and evacuation of 2,000 people, was probably dropped by RAF in April 1944, targeting the Nazi-occupied Paris before the D-Day landings in Normandy. Germany Disposal of a 4,000-pound (1,800 kg) blockbuster bomb dropped by the RAF during World War II.
11 hours ago · The Anglo-Iraqi War was a British-led Allied military campaign during the Second World War against the Kingdom of Iraq, then ruled by Rashid Gaylani who had seized power in the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état with assistance from Germany and Italy. The campaign resulted in the downfall of Gaylani's government, the re-occupation of Iraq by the British ...
- Kingdom of Iraq
- Allied victory
11 hours ago · Substantial debate exists over the ethical, legal, and military aspects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 respectively at the close of World War II (1939–45). On 26 July 1945 at the Potsdam Conference, United States President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President ...
11 hours ago · March 2–5 – In the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, U.S. Army Air Forces and Royal Australian Air Force aircraft attack a convoy of eight Japanese cargo ships escorted by eight destroyers carrying troops from Rabaul, New Britain, to Lae, New Guinea, as it transits an unnamed body of water soon to be named the Bismarck Sea.
11 hours ago · Clockwise from top-left: Ancient warfare: Stele of the Vultures, c. 2500 BCE Medieval warfare: Battle of Hastings, 1066 Early modern warfare: Retreat from Moscow, 1812 Industrial age warfare: Battle of the Somme, 1916 Modern warfare: Normandy landings, 1944 Nuclear warfare: Nuclear weapon test, 1954 Part of a series on War Outline History Prehistoric Ancient Post-classical castles Early modern ...
11 hours ago · 1944 Begum Para: Chand: Neel Kamal (1947) Sumitra Devi: Meri Bahen: Mashaal (1950), Diwana (1952), Mamta (1952) 1945 Asha Posley: Champa: Munawar Sultana: Pehli Nazar: Parai Aag (1948), Babul (1950) Noor Jehan: Zeenat: Anmol Ghadi (1946), Jugnu (1947), Mirza Sahibaan (1947) 1946 Kamala Kotnis: Hum Ek Hain: Aage Badho (1949), Seedha Raasta (1949 ...
