The Battle of Crete (German: Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, Greek: Μάχη της Κρήτης), codenamed Operation Mercury (German: Unternehmen Merkur), was a major...
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is the complete order of battle for the Battle of Crete and related operations in 1941. Headquarters Creforce - (Eastern Zone, east of Chania) Major-general...
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Osprey. ISBN 978-1-4728-0690-1. Stanton, Shelby L. (1984). World War II Order of Battle. New York: Galahad Books. ISBN 0-88365-775-9. Web "World War II Divisional...
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Heraklion The Battle of Heraklion was part of the Battle of Crete, fought during World War II on the Greek island of Crete between 20 and 30 May 1941....
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The Battle of Naissus in 268 or 269 was the defeat of a Gothic coalition by the Roman Empire under Emperor Gallienus (or Emperor Claudius II Gothicus)...
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atrocious war crimes committed during the occupation of Crete by Axis forces in World War II. The Battle of Crete began on 20 May 1941 with a large-scale airborne...
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The Fifth Battle of Ypres, also called the Advance in Flanders and the Battle of the Peaks of Flanders (French: Bataille des Crêtes de Flandres) is an...
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the war was Crete, the largest and most profitable of the overseas holdings of the Venetian Republic. The battle came after a squadron of Venetian ships...
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garrison and fortification of Crete. The Greek island of Crete was seized by the Axis after a fierce battle at the end of May 1941. The Germans occupied...
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list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are...
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backwardness of our night battle technology. — Iachino The Italian fleet did not venture into the Eastern Mediterranean again until the fall of Crete two months...
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0559°E / 35.4819; 24.0559 The Battle of 42nd Street (27 May 1941) was fought during World War II on the Greek island of Crete. On 20 May, Nazi Germany launched...
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in retaliation for the participation of Cretans in the Battle of Crete which had ended with the surrender of the island two days earlier. The massacre...
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The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on...
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The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air...
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The Battle of the Yarmuk (also spelled Yarmouk) was a major battle between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun...
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on August 19, 1942. The following order of battle lists the significant military units that participated in the battle, or were available as reserve. The...
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The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940, as a naval battle in Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north...
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The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its...
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. 'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle', Filipino: Labanan sa Golpo ng Leyte) 23–26...
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August Freiherr von der Heydte, considered by Germans to be a hero of the Battle of Crete. It was the German paratroopers' only nighttime drop during World...
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The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major...
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The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia...
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The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern...
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The Battle of West Hunan (Chinese: 湘西會戰), also known as the Battle of Xuefeng Mountains (Chinese: 雪峰山戰役) and the Zhijiang Campaign (Chinese: 芷江戰役), was...
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The Battle of Hill (Height) 731 (Greek: Μάχη του υψώματος 731), was a fierce battle fought during World War II in southern Albania, part of the Greco-Italian...
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The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg,: 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island...
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2004, p. 50 Rottman, Gordon (2004). Okinawa 1945: The Last Battle. Osprey. ISBN 0-275-98274-2. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battle of Okinawa....
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The Third Battle of Doiran was fought from 18 to 19 September 1918, with the British and the Greeks assaulting the positions of the Bulgarian First Army...
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Operations on the Northern Flank of Europe". In Boog et al. (2001). Budiansky, S. (2000). Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II...
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