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Hace 2 días · During World War II, the Allies committed legally proven war crimes and violations of the laws of war against either civilians or military personnel of the Axis powers.At the end of World War II, many trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg Trials and Tokyo Trials.In Europe, these tribunals were set up under the authority of the London Charter, which only ...
Hace 3 días · In December 1942, air and sea forces operating from Malta went over to the offensive. By May 1943, they had sunk 230 Axis ships in 164 days, the highest Allied sinking rate of the war. The Allied victory in Malta played a major role in the eventual Allied success in North Africa.
Hace 1 día · Battle of the Atlantic. The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign [11] [12] in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany ...
Hace 5 días · On display: Gloster Meteor F.8 | WK991. Maximum speed: 600 mph (970 km/h, 520 knots) at 10,000 ft (3,000 m) Maximum speed: Mach 0.82. Range: 600 mi (970 km, 520 nmi) Service ceiling: 43,000 ft (13,000 m) Rate of climb: 7,000 ft/min (36 m/s) The Gloster Meteor was the only allied jet fighter of the Second World War.
Hace 3 días · 31 List. Places: 1 List. Date: 30.05.1942. Additional information. The German city of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids by the Allies during World War II, all by the Royal Air Force (RAF) but for a single failed post-capture test of a guided missile by the United States Army Air Forces.
Hace 3 días · Kennedy’s award-winning Day is also about airmen, or rather one particular member of a bomber crew – Sgt. Alfie Day, a rear-gunner on a Lancaster bomber. Although the two books are concerned with active servicemen, their treatment of their subject matter places them firmly in the mainstream of academic historiography and recent fiction which focuses on the home front.
Hace 3 días · Under Air Force General Order No. 78, dated 29 May 1943, the 465 th Bombardment Group (H) was activated on 1 August 1943 at the Army Air Base, Alamogordo, New Mexico. It consisted of Headquarters and four Squadrons: the 780 th, 781 st, 782 nd, and 783 rd.Under Special Order No. 4, dated 4 October 1943, the 465 th Bombardment Group (H) was ordered to the Army Air Base, McCook, Nebraska, to ...
