beGgining of the war/ German invasion 1936-SeteMber 1, 1939(Invasion of polamd)
At 4:30 in the morning of September 1, 1939. Hitler's Air Force or (Luftwaffe) commenced the bombing of airfields all across Poland. Simultaneously, a German battleship "visiting" the Polish port of Danzig opened fire on Polish fortifications, and the Wehrmacht (army) surged across Polish frontier. In a single action,164,000 Polish soldiers became prisoners of the war.By the beginning of October, the last organized Poland force, at knock, had been crushed. It matured that not at all that two days after the invasion both France and Britain (England) honored their treaty obligations to Poland by declaring war on Germany.
D-day-NormandY-June 6, 1944
June 6, 1944, an invasion of Normandy, popularity known as D-day, was the long-awaited opening for the second front in France with an amphibious assault across the English Channel. It was the largest amphibious warfare operation in history. When the Normandy campaign ended on September 1, 1944, Paris and most of France had been liberated, the Germans had lost a force of 700,000 men, and the western Allies were poised for the assault on Germany, together with the Soviet Union attack from the east would bring victory to the Grand Alliance in the World War II European theater.
Battle Of bulge-decmener 16,1944
In December 1944, the Germans launched a counteroffensive in the Ardennes forest in Belgium in a desperate effort to halt the allied advance and capture the vital Belgian port of Antwerp.
The last German major thrust in the European theater of World War II was named the Battle of the Bulge, because of the wedge that the Germans drove into the Allied lines before American forces replied the German attack.
The last German major thrust in the European theater of World War II was named the Battle of the Bulge, because of the wedge that the Germans drove into the Allied lines before American forces replied the German attack.
Victory in europe-May 8, 1945
While the contributes of the American strategic bombing campaign to victory were enormous the costs of the effort should be considered.
At least 25 percent of the total American industrial effort went into aviation.
At least 25 percent of the total American industrial effort went into aviation.