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the battle of hong kong
one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong. -
The Raid on Dieppe
The forces attacked at five different points on a front roughly 16 kilometers long. Four simultaneous flank attacks were to go in just before dawn, followed half an hour later by the main attack on the town of Dieppe itself. -
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Italy
On 11 July, the Canadians were delayed, not as much by enemy opposition than by thousands of Italian troops wanting to surrender. The Canadians followed an inland route that guarded the British Eight Army’s left flank up the eastern coastline toward Catania and the ultimate objective of the Strait of Messina, which divides Sicily from the Italian mainland. -
D-Day (Normandy)
The 1944 Battle of Normandy — from the D-Day landings on 6 June through to the encirclement of the German army at Falaise on 21 August — was one of the pivotal events of the Second World War and the scene of some of Canada's greatest feats of arms. -
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The Battle of the Leopold Canal
As part of the preliminary battles leading up to the Battle of the Scheldt, the 4th Canadian Division was tasked to move along the axis of Moerbrugge – Maldegem – Breskens. After the crossing of the Ghent Canal at Moerbrugge, it then planned for the crossing of the Dérivation de la Lys and the Leopold Canal. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The outcome of the battle was a strategic victory for the Allies—the German blockade failed—but at great cost: 3,500 merchant ships and 175 warships were sunk in the Atlantic for the loss of 783 U-boats (the majority of them Type VII submarines) and 47 German surface warships, including 4 battleships -
Battle in the Pacific
Canada, too, prepared for the assault. Nearly 80,000 Canadians volunteered to join the Pacific forces and began concentrating at nine stations across Canada in July 1945. Canadian naval participation was also to have been impressive: 60 ships, manned by 13,500 men. However, the war was over before this help was needed. President Truman of the United States had made the fateful decision to use the atomic bomb. -
Battle of Britain
British forces played major roles in the production of Ultra signals intelligence, the strategic bombing of Germany, and the Normandy landings of 1944, which led to the liberation of Europe on 8 May 1945, achieved with the United States, the Soviet Union and other Allied countries.