mantle of “strategic necessity,” Britain and France taking the war to AfricaFrench colonial policy, in using African troops on the front lineEthiopia's brutal military campaign, and from Italy's other African colonieswelfare of the HCT soldiers, concerning the postwar periodnationalist movements as RDA in postwar, as a pro...
North African CampaignpropagandaSouth African Broadcasting CorporationWorld War IIThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) was a microcosm of the wider South African political situation, riven through with political, racial and linguistic divisions. A substantial English-speaking population compacted ...
The North African Campaign, also known as the Desert War, took place in the North African desert from 1940 to 1943. It was quite important in strategic terms, with the Mediterranean and the British African Empire at stake. It was the only theater in which the Western Allies engaged both Ge...
Britain invades pro-Axis Iraq, and the Anglo-Iraqi War begins. The war ends on May 31, when the pro-Axis government surrendered. June 2 The Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military pilots, began, with the formation of the 99th Fighter Squadron. ...
Mussolini agrees to enter the war at a future date. March 30 Japan establishes a puppet government in Nanking, China. April 9 Germany successfully invades Norway and Denmark. May 1940 to May 1945 The North African campaign. Allied and Axis forces battle across North and East Africa. May 10 ...
Frank Capra and Roy Boulting directed this account of the North African campaign in World War II; it covers the period between the American intervention in 1942 and the Allied victory. Burgess Meredith and Bernard Miles nar- rate. MARINES AT TARAWA-RETURN TO GUAM (1944) 40 min. Directed by...
List of United States of America battles in the World War II, listed alphabetically with photos, images, and maps when possible. Every major battle, skirmish, ...
97, Airborne Operations in I3firld War II, European Theater (Maxwell AFB, AL: USAF Historical Division, Research Studies Institute, Air University, Sep. 1966). See also Charles B. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, from U.S. Army in WW-II (Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief ...
Operation Torch was the World War II military code name for the Anglo-U.S. invasion of French North Africa. Amphibious landings began on November 8, 1942, and French authorities concluded an armistice with the Allies three days later.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) was a British statesman, orator, and author. During his first term as prime minister (1940–45), he rallied the British people and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory in World War II.