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2 days ago · 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 ...
- Allied victory
- 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941, (Guerrilla war until 8 September 1943)
Apr 17, 2024 · Many of them were of African origin but who they were and why they decided to join the French Resistance has only recently begun to come to light. Issued on: 17/04/2024 - 20:21 7 min
2 days ago · Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.Torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa while allowing American armed forces the opportunity to begin their fight against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on a limited scale.
- 8–16 November 1942, (1 week and 1 day)
- Allied victory
- French Morocco, French Algeria
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Apr 27, 2024 · Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War. Woodbridge, James Currey, 2010, ISBN: 9781847010155; 272pp.; Price: £45.00. In the last thirty years, in reaction to a predominantly white, Western and metropole-biased discourse of the Second World War based solely on the 'official' record, there have emerged a growing number of ...
Apr 17, 2024 · Battle of the Bulge, (December 16, 1944–January 16, 1945), the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II —an unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German home territory. The name Battle of the Bulge was appropriated from Winston Churchill ’s optimistic description in May 1940 of the resistance that ...
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2 days ago · The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign [11] [12] in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter ...
Apr 17, 2024 · Battle of Britain, during World War II, the successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force (Luftwaffe) from July through September 1940, after the fall of France. Victory for the Luftwaffe in the air battle would have exposed Great Britain to invasion by the German army, which ...
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