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Battle of Britain
Germany was attempting to take over Britain's air space
Britain fought back with the help of the allies
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Canadians at Hong Kong
Canada sent the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada to defend the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong from Japanese invasion on October 27th 1941. After just 17 days of battle, there were 290 deaths and Canada was forced to surrender. The remaining soldiers were put into Prisoner of War Camps where they were tortured and starved for over three and a half years.
290 killed in battle
267 died in prisoners camps
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European Air War
European Air War is a combat flight simulator released by MicroProse in 1998. European Air War is the sequel to 1942: The Pacific Air War by Microprose. The stock standard version simulates the Battle of Britain, and the Allied Air offensives in Western Europe during the Second World War in 1943-1945. -
Dieppe Raid
The element of surprise was ruined when German ships opened fired on the Allied ships. Sleeping soldiers were awakened by the fire. By the time the Allied forces arrived at the beaches the Germans were ready. The British commanders were inexperienced with this raid and handled it badly. When troops hit the beaches they were mowed down by gunfire and artillery shells. -
Italian Campaign
mouse-holing, Ortona
Allies going in to Italy was because they wanted to create a position in Italy, so they could attack the German territories and resources and relieve the Soviet Union from the German advance. The second purpose was to keep German forces otherwise occupied so they might be used to resist the channel invasion. Churchill and many commanders didn't think the Germans would defend Italy and assumed the campaign would be completed by end of 1944. -
D-Day (Normandy)
D-Day happened because France was occupied by Nazi Germany and needed to be freed. Also It was recognized that the war could not be won without American intervention. So D-Day was organized to put an end to world war II
The United States, Great Britian, France, Canada, and the Soviet Union were the major players of the Allied powers. -
Liberation of Europe
In the final months of the Second World War, Canadian forces were given the important and deadly task of liberating the Netherlands from Nazi occupation. From September 1944 to April 1945, the First Canadian Army fought German forces on the Scheldt estuary —opening the port of Antwerp for Allied use — and then cleared northern and western Netherlands of Germans, allowing food and other relief to reach millions of desperate people. -
Commandos in the Pacific
After Japan attacked to Pearl Harbor, Allies needed soldiers who could speak Japanese and Chinese to serve behind enemy
Many of the regions seized by the Japanese had large Chinese-speaking population, including Burma, Sarawak, and Malaysia. For entered to Mongolia and China and other Asian places. -
The battle of the Atlantic
The battle of the Atlantic is the longest ,military campaign in WW2, lasting from September 1939 to 1945. Canada played a vital role in this battle by using a plan that consisted of surrounding the merchant ships with battle ships to escort the supplies to Britain.
