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German U-boats grouped together to create a “wall” blocking access to Europe and sinking merchant ships. The ships started sailing in convoys protected by destroyers and corvettes, armed with sonars and depth charges. German U-Boats attacked and sunk merchant ships with torpedoes. The Battle of the Atlantic was finally won using radar, Bletchley Park code-breaking, and radio interception -
The European theater of World War II was an area of intense fighting throughout Europe, beginning with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to the conquest of most of Western Europe by the United States, Great Britain and France, and the Soviet conquest of most of Eastern Europe and Germany on May 8, 1945 Day (Victory in Europe Day) unconditional surrender. -
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The Luftwaffe and the British Royal Air Force fought fiercely on the English Channel. These young people who participated in the battle in order to serve the country died, bleed, suffered the pain of being hit by bullets in this battle, and disappeared in the English Channel one by one However, because of their heroism, the Luftwaffe made repeated defeats and finally won a big victory with blood. -
In 1941, the British asked the Canadian army to help the British colony Hong Kong, so Canada sent troops to garrison Hong Kong. Six hours after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked Hong Kong. Canadian troops did their best to stop the Japanese attack. On Christmas Day, the Canadian Army regained lost ground on the southern tip of the island, but at a heavy price, the Canadian Army lost. -
On 1 January 1943, the formation of the RAF Bomber Command's 6th (RCAF) Bomber Group marked a milestone. It eventually developed into 14 squadrons. It was commanded successively by Air Force Deputy Marshals GE Brookes and then CM McEwen. Bomber Command was tasked with bombing Germany at night, an extremely dangerous job that required constant tenacity. Nearly 10,000 Canadians were killed under this command. -
Dieppe Raid was an Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, northern France in the Second World War. Over 6,050 infantry, predominantly Canadian, supported by a regiment of tanks, were put ashore from a naval force operating under the protection of Royal Air Force fighters. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dieppe-raid -
The Battle of Ortona was a battle fought between two battalions of elite German FallschirmjägerIt was the First German Parachute Division. The Canadians soldiers invented a technique named “mouse-holing”, which was blasting holes between the building attic walls. https://bit.ly/3l1AvMg -
From September 1944 to April 1945, the First Canadian Army fought the Germans at the mouth of the Scheldt -- opening the port of Antwerp for Allied use -- then clearing the north and west of the Netherlands of Germans, leaving millions in despair received food and other relief. More than 7,600 Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen were killed in the fighting in the Netherlands. Today, Canada is fondly remembered by the Dutch for ending Nazi oppression. -
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki