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Battle4 of the Atlantic
The battle of the atlantic was the wars longest continuous campaign. Germany had great succes in the U-boat warfare. They would attack in wolf packs during night so they couldnt be detected. They had huge gains from being able to decode the British Admirality. 1941 tables turn to muricas favor by capturing the U-110. That took away Britains enigma. Germans take control again in 1942. Huge amounts of ships coming in rates of almost 20 a month. By summer of 1942 allies had lost 1,664 ships and -
battle of atlantic (contd.)
resources were almost wiped out at this point. 1943 Allies gain control once again. Allies started using mortars and taking out many of the German U-boats. The Merchant Navy lost 30,000 men and close to 3,000 ships. The Germans suffered the loss of 738 U-boats and 28,000 sailors. Germans brought in submarines but it was to late to make a difference. Battle ended 1949 as a Allied win -
Battle of Britain
Germanys main objective was to take control of the air over the Royal Air Force (RAF). The Lufftwaffe used terror bombings as the main attack strategy. The British stopped Germany and by doing that stopped Hitler from Operation Sea Lion, a planned airborne and amphibious invasion of britain. Germany continued bombing. This defeat was considered the first major crucial turning point in WW2 -
Battle of Stalingrad
July 17, 1942-- February 2, 1943
The Battle of Stalingrad was the major Soviet defense of the city. The battle was one of the bloodiest in WW2 with a combined death toll of soldiers and civilians of nearly 2 million. Soviets circled an an entire German force under the lead of General Friedrich Paulus. In mid-November Marshall Gregorii K. Zhukov encircled the 6th Army and caused the Germans to surrender. February 2 General Paulaus surrenders to save his last 91,000 men. Germany lost 150,000 men -
Second Battle of El Alamein
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel attacked british forces driving them back to northern Africa within 50 miles of Alexandria. General Claude Auchinleck was able to stop the Italio-German army at El Alamein. Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery took over control of the 8th Army. Montgomery pushes his attack into action callled Operation Lightfoot. Montgomery attacks by the northern city of Tel el Eisa. The Second Battle of El Alamein cost Rommel around 2,349 killed, 5,486 wounded, and 30,121 captured -
Operation Torch
On November 8, 1942, British and American forces carried out an amphibious landing on the coast of French North Africa (present-day Morocco). The invasion involved more than 100,000 men and over 600 ships, placing it among the largest such invasions in history. Operation Torch was highly successful and enabled the Allies to take more than 1,000 miles of North African coastline. -
Invasion of Siscily/Italy
Although Italy officially surrendered to the Allies on September 8, 1943, the Allied invasion of Italy proceeded as planned, as there were still a large number of German forces stationed in the country. British forces landed at Taranto, on the southeastern tip of Italy, on September 2nd, German resistance proved very heavy,U.S. forces in particular suffered great casualties. After slow and treacherous fighting, the Allies finally captured the port of Naples on October 1st. Italy is now Allies. -
Operation Overlord
By early 1944, the Allies, under the leadership of U.S. general Dwight D. Eisenhower, had been planning an invasion of France for more than a year. The Germans, anticipating such an invasion since 1942, had begun building the Atlantic Wall, a series of heavily armed fortifications all along the French coast. , the Allies made use of German spies in Britain who had been turned and were serving as double agents. Invasion in Normandy but they convinced the Germans its in Calais -
Hitler commits suicide
The Russians had over taken Berlin, the capital of Germany and HItler was affraid if they caught him they would kill him. he went to his bunker 55 feet underground and took a cyanide pill. then shot himself -
VE day
Marked the end of WW2 in Europe -
Battle of the Bulge
On December 16, three German armies (more than a quarter-million troops) launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the west in the poorly roaded, rugged, heavily forested Ardennes. The once-quiet region became bedlam as American units were caught flat-footed and fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and, later, Bastogne, which was defended by the 101st Airborne Division. germans lose due to lack of supplies
