2567 results for “World War” — type: events (415 ms)
World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden and British XXX Corps advances into the Netherlands as the "Garden" half of the Oper�
World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units.
World War II: German forces are attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino.
World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense restores compulsory military training.
World War II: Soviet forces enter Tehran during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
World War II: Due to setbacks in the Battle of Britain and approaching autumn weather, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion.
World War II: The Soviet invasion of Poland begins.
World War II: German submarine U-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
World War II: Operation Market Garden results in the liberation of Eindhoven.
World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
World War II: The Soviet Union introduces conscription for all males between the ages of 16 and 50.
World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
World War II: The radio show Germany Calling begins transmitting Nazi propaganda.
The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the second-longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought.
World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp to gather and smuggle out information for the resistance movement.