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1 January: 10,000 Japanese troops launch a counter-attack in eastern Shanxi Province in China in an attempt to relieve the nearly-surrounded Japanese 36th Division. [1] 2 January: The Soviet offensive in Finland is halted by several Finnish victories; numerous Soviet tanks are destroyed. 7 January.
According to the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, during the last 9 months of the Pacific War 14,054 tons of bombs were dropped in precision and area air attacks on the factories and urban areas of Nagoya. No Japanese city other than Tokyo received as many attacks. The city was attacked 21 times between December 13, 1944 and July 24, 1945.
The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. The British Middle East Command with troops from the United Kingdom, South ...
The Australian army was the first to inflict defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II at the Battle of Milne Bay of August–September 1942. The South West Pacific theatre, during World War II, was a major theatre of the war between the Allies and the Axis. It included the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies (except for Sumatra ...
United States in World War II. The United States participated in World War II in different ways: United States home front during World War II. Military history of the United States during World War II.
Battle of Alam el Halfa: August–September 1942. Second Battle of El Alamein: October–November 1942. Battle of El Agheila: December 1942. Operation Torch: November 1942. Operation Terminal: 8 November 1942. Naval Battle of Casablanca. Tunisia Campaign: November 1942 – May 1943. Battle of the Kasserine Pass: February 1943.
The Soviet Union started and ended the war with more tanks than the rest of the world combined (18,000–22,000). At the start of World War II the most common tank in Soviet service was the T-26 (derived from the Vickers 6-ton), lightly armoured and armed with a 45 mm gun capable of penetrating most German tanks at normal combat ranges.
