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It was the longest battle of World War II. This meant that the battle cost the Nazis dearly. The Nazis lost 3,500 merchant ships and 175 warships sunk in the Atlantic, lost 783 U-boats (most of them Type VIIs) and 47 German surface warships, including 4 battleships. Among them, Canadians escorted hundreds of convoys gathered in Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia, on the dangerous journey across the Atlantic.
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The German invasion of the Netherlands was part of the Yellow Case military campaign of German invasions of the Low Countries and France during World War II. Even though the Dutch army kept blocking it, the German occupation of the entire country was finally completed on May 17th. But after this the Canadians liberated the Dutch people. And help end World War II in Europe.
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Battle of Britain (Air Battle for England) was a four-month military campaign in World War II. Fleet aviation of the RAF and the Royal Navy defended Britain from a massive Nazi attack on the Luftwaffe. And 25% of the RAF are Canadians. The war ended with a British victory.
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The Pacific War, also known as the Asia-Pacific War. It was a war that took place in Asia and other regions from December 7, 1941 to September 2, 1945. The Allies gained naval and air supremacy. In this way, the Allies entered Asia and attacked Japan. But the Japanese successfully defended their positions in mainland China until the Allies dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. Let this war end.
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The Battle of Hong Kong, a war fought from 8 to 25 December 1941 during World War II. This was not only the first battle of the Pacific War of World War II. Also on the same day as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan attacked the British colony in Hong Kong. But it didn't turn to England. But the defenders could not defeat the Japanese. In the end, it ended with the victory of Japanese aggression.
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Air combat consumes a significant portion of the industrial output of the great powers. But it has very big benefits. Take the UK RAF as an example. They protect naval installations and carrier-based aircraft by using air combat. By the way, send resources to the ground troops.
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It was an amphibious attack by Allied forces on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France during World War II. Its purpose was to intimidate the Nazis into retreating their soldiers from the Soviet Union. Among them, Canada has suffered the most.
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The Mincemeat Project was a successful military decoy operation by British intelligence officer Charles Cholmondeley during World War II using a "corpse spy" to conceal the intention of the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. This plan made the heavy cost of attacking Sicily disappear directly. Sicily was occupied with very little force and cost.
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%82%89%E9%A6%85%E8%A1%8C%E5%8A%A8
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Allied forces on July 9, 1943. Invaded Sicily and captured this vital island from the Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany) at a fraction of the cost. Did not play an important role in the defeat of the Nazis by the Allies.
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This was the mouse-holing amphibious landing on the Italian mainland by Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army on 3 September 1943. The battle was crucial for the Allies to defeat the Nazis.
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Operation Overlord was the origin of the Battle of Normandy, the Allied attack on the Germans off the coast of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. Juneau Beach was one of the five beaches that the Allies invaded in German-occupied France at the time of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and the most important of them all. This is the second time the Allies have made a U-turn on the European battlefield.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
