The Landing at Aitape (code-named Operation Persecution) was a battle of the Western New Guinea campaign of World War II. American and Allied forces undertook...

Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group. The most common forms are religious persecution, racism...

undertaken simultaneously with the amphibious invasion of Aitape ("Operation Persecution") to the east. The battle was an unqualified success for the Allied...

January 1944 Operation Brewer – 29 February 1944 – Admiralty Islands campaign Operation Persecution – 22 April 1944 – Aitape Operation Hurricane – 23...

The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day. Christian missionaries and converts...

The Diocletianic or Great Persecution was the last and most severe persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. In 303, the emperors Diocletian, Maximian...

The persecution of Muslims has been recorded throughout the history of Islam, beginning with its founding by Muhammad in the 7th century. In the early...

offensive in the Pacific Theater. MacArthur's Operation Cartwheel, Operation Reckless and Operation Persecution were the first successful Allied practices...

suffered heavy casualties. The battle should not be confused with Operation Persecution, which included amphibious landings near Aitape in April 1944, or...

Hindus have experienced both historical and ongoing religious persecution and systematic violence, in the form of forced conversions, documented massacres...

The persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia refers to the Russian government's persecution of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group. Following...

to strengthen the Roman state and its religion, leading to the Decian persecution, where a number of prominent Christians (including Pope Fabian) were...

Many adherents of Buddhism have experienced religious persecution because of their adherence to the Buddhist practice, including unwarranted arrests,...

Operation Clean-up, also known as Operation Blue Fox, was an armed military intelligence program led by the Sindh Police and Pakistan Rangers, with an...

Religious persecution is the systematic oppression of an individual or a group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations...

Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September...

The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar. The genocide has consisted...

with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater. 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land...

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken...

been the subject of persecution in Afghanistan, including enslavement during the 19th century and ethnic and religious persecution for hundreds of years...

The persecution of Christians by the Islamic State involves the systematic mass murder of Christian minorities, within the regions of Iraq, Syria, Egypt...

The persecution of Christians from 1989 to the present is part of a global pattern of religious persecution. In this era, the persecution of Christians...

romanized: Hretska Operatsiia; Greek: Ελληνική επιχείρηση) was an organised mass persecution of the Greeks of the Soviet Union that was ordered by Soviet leader Joseph...

Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide. There have been reports of mass arbitrary arrests and...

the Japanese in 1942 and was seized by the Allies as a part of Operation Persecution during April 1944. (no known scheduled services) PNG Airstrip Guide...

undertaken simultaneously with the amphibious invasion of Aitape ("Operation Persecution") to the east. April 25 The Holocaust: SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf...

Witnesses in the United States were "the principal victims of religious persecution … they began to attract attention and provoke repression in the 1930s...

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western...

Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World...

of Serbs as an ethnic group. Historically it has been a basis for the persecution of ethnic Serbs. A distinctive form of anti-Serb sentiment is anti-Serbian...