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Battle of Britain
History In 1940s, June 30th. between summer and fall, Germany send a lots of Air Forces try to attack Britain, but Britain did good defense and shoot down ober 3,000 Germany planes -
Battle of Hong Kong
Battle of Hong KongOn the same morning as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the Empire of Japan attacked British Hong Kong. The attack was in violation of international law as Japan had not declared war against the British Empire. -
Battle of Dieppe
Battle of Dieppe The Allies want to know how Germany coastal defense in France and also want Germany to mober more soldiers away Russia so they scare Germany, so they decide to have a short raid of France coastal town of Dieppe. A lots of soldiers died. -
Battle of Italy
History On 3 September 1943, the British Eighth Army's XIII Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey and composed of British and Canadian formations, launched Operation Baytown under General Bernard Montgomery's direction. Opposition to the landings was light and the Italian units surrendered almost immediately -
Battle od D-Day
History
This is Canada’s largest military operation of WW 2. 14,000 soldiers landed on the beach and 10,000 sailors on 100 ships off the coast, and also Canada, USA and Britain attacked Normandy, France to take France back from the Germans. Canada was most successful at Juno Beach, but had 335 dead and 739 wounded. -
Battle of Air War
The National Interest
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was small in 1939, but by 1945 4th largest in the world. Canadians bombed German cities at night trying to destroy factories that made war supplies. Not very successful as many pilots died and factories were not totally destroyed. It have changed a lot. -
Battle of Atlantic
Veterans Affairs Canada Germany used submarines (U-boats) to sink supply ships coming to Britain from other countries, The convoys, coming mainly from North America and predominantly going to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, were protected for the most part by the British and Canadian navies and air forces. -
Battle of Europe
World War 2 Archives Canada freed the Netherlands from the Nazis. Canada had a lot's people dead or been wounded. Canada gave food to the Dutch people who were so happy they threw flowers (tulips) at the Canadian soldiers. Germany surrendered on May 7,1945 -
Battle of Pacific
pbs The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theatre of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and East Asia. It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China
