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The Separate Coastal Army ( Russian: Приморская армия ), also translated to English as Independent Coastal Army, [1] was an army-level unit in the Red Army that fought in World War II. It was established on July 18, 1941, by the order of the Southern Front from the forces of 9th Army’s Coastal Group and was stood up on July 20 ...
ptwiki Cerco de Odessa (1941) rowiki Bătălia de la Odesa (1941) ruwiki Одесская оборона (1941) simplewiki Siege of Odessa (1941) slwiki Obleganje Odese (1941) srwiki Опсада Одесе; tawiki ஒடெசா முற்றுகை (1941) thwiki การล้อมออแดซา (ค.ศ. 1941) trwiki Odessa ...
The siege of Malta in World War II was a military campaign in the Mediterranean theatre. From June 1940 to November 1942, the fight for the control of the strategically important island of the British Crown Colony of Malta pitted the air and naval forces of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany against the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy .
1,714 killed 3,378 wounded. The fall of Singapore, also known as the Battle of Singapore, [c] took place in the South–East Asian theatre of the Pacific War. The Japanese Empire captured the British stronghold of Singapore, with fighting lasting from 8 to 15 February 1942. Singapore was the foremost British military base and economic port in ...
The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in what is now southern Russia.
2 January: German bombers bomb Ireland for the second night in a row. 2–4 January: Bardia is bombed by British bombers and bombarded by naval vessels off shore. 3 January: RAF bombers attack Bremen and the Kiel Canal in Germany. The Kiel Canal Bridge suffers a direct hit and collapses on Finnish ship Yrsa.
The siege of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, and led to the surrender of General Cornwallis and the capture of both him and his army. The Continental Army 's victory at Yorktown prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict.
