The Allied Forces Act 1940 (3 & 4 Geo. 6. c. 51) was an act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in late 1940, after the fall...
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respect to deserters from such forces." During World War II, the Allied Forces Act 1940 enabled visiting Allied forces to conduct courts martial, but...
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Allies of World War II (redirect from Allied forces (World War II))
Allied member after being invaded by Germany on 10 May 1940. During the ensuing fighting, Belgian forces fought alongside French and British forces against...
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soil, had been approved in the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 and Allied Forces Act 1940. The first components of a Belgian military in Britain was...
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Persian Corridor. Its creation was based on the British Allied Forces Act 1940, which allowed the Allied units of the exiled government of Poland to be grouped...
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with allied military forces for the duration of a military conflict involving the United States. Despite the act's official title dating it to 1940, its...
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Free France (redirect from Western Allied invasion of France)
in June 1940 after the Fall of France to Nazi Germany. It joined the Allied nations in fighting Axis forces with the Free French Forces (Forces françaises...
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Commonwealth) Act 1933 and Allied Forces Act 1940 provided some martial courts, but nothing for maritime law.: 118 Section 1 of the Act allowed for new...
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D-Day that the Allied officers would not act as military governors and would instead cooperate with the local authorities as the Allied forces liberated French...
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The Visiting Forces Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2. c. 67) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Section 3 provides immunity against...
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the Battle of Britain No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 Allied Forces Act 1940 Czechoslovak pilots in France shot down...
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Australian Military Forces and Commander of Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific Area during the war. Commander of Allied land forces in the South West...
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Battle of France (redirect from Battle of France (1940))
from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo. German forces began Fall Rot ("Case Red") on 5 June 1940. The remaining Allied divisions in France, sixty French and two...
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Battle of the Mediterranean (redirect from Allied shipping in the Mediterranean Sea)
Axis naval and air forces, those of Nazi Germany and Vichy France, and the British Royal Navy, supported by other Allied naval forces, such as those of...
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From 1939 to 1940, the French Third Republic was at war with Nazi Germany. In 1940, the German forces defeated the French in the Battle of France. The...
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Siege of Malta (World War II) (redirect from Siege of Malta (1940))
a new front in North Africa in June 1940 increased Malta's already considerable value. British air and sea forces based on the island could attack Axis...
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Zealand) forces. China is considered another major power in Pacific 1940, though they are commanded by one of the other Allied powers (or by all Allied players...
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The Polish Air Forces (Polish: Polskie Siły Powietrzne) was the name of the Polish Air Forces formed in France and the United Kingdom during World War...
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Occupation of Japan (redirect from Allied Council for Japan)
effect on April 28, 1952, formally ending all occupation powers of the Allied forces and restoring full sovereignty to Japan, except for the island chains...
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Battle of Dunkirk (redirect from Dunkirk 1940)
and other Allied forces to Britain from 26 May to 4 June 1940. After the Phoney War, the Battle of France began in earnest on 10 May 1940. To the east...
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Allied armies. The Germans gradually reduced the pocket of Allied forces, forcing them back to the sea. The Belgian Army surrendered on 28 May 1940,...
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North African campaign (redirect from North Africa 1940-43)
and the remnants of the retreating army surrendered. Over ten weeks Allied forces had destroyed the Italian Tenth Army and reached El Agheila, taking...
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ISBN 0-85045-396-8. Molinari, Andrea (2007). Desert Raiders: Axis and Allied Special Forces 1940–43. Osprey Publishing. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-84603-006-2. "Everything...
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Allied Forces Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) was a Principal Subordinate Command (PSC) of the NATO Military Command Structure, with responsibility for the...
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Liberation of France (category 1940 in France)
efforts of the Allied Powers, Free French forces in London and Algiers, as well as the French Resistance. Nazi Germany invaded France in May 1940. Their rapid...
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Government of Vichy France (redirect from Laval government of 1940)
Third Republic in June 1940. The government remained in Vichy for four years, but fled to Germany in September 1944 after the Allied invasion of France....
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The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded...
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Command between 1940 and 1945, the United States Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force between 1943 and 1945, and the French Air Force in 1940 and between 1944...
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Admiralty Lies on Act of Piracy". British Naval Intelligence issued their own communique: In view of the German allegations that Allied naval forces have executed...
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in the West was composed of army, air and naval forces. The Poles soon became shock troops in Allied service, most notably in the Battle of Monte Cassino...
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