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"Luftflotten" (Air Fleets) and their locations between 1939 and 1945. Before the invasion of Poland. Luftflotte 1 (Northeast Germany) Luftflotte 2 (Northwest...

forces and from tactical air power. During World War II, many military strategists of air power believed that air forces could win major victories by attacking...

Almost every country in the world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to...

Air warfare was a major component in all theaters of World War II and, together with anti-aircraft warfare, consumed a large fraction of the industrial...

Brazil officially entered World War II on August 22, 1942, when it declared war against the Axis powers, including Germany and Italy. On February 8, 1943...

military history of the United States during World War II covers the nation's role as one of the major Allies in their victory over the Axis Powers. The United...

children sought refuge in Ottawa, Canada until after the war. German occupation lasted in some areas until the German surrender in May 1945. Active resistance...

During World War II, aviation firmly established itself as a critical component of modern warfare from the Battle of Britain in the early stages to the...

list deals specifically with aircraft of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) during World War II. The FAA operated aircraft from Royal Navy ships, mainly...

Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended...

At the outbreak of the Second World War Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine had 21 destroyers (German: Zerstörer) in service, while another one was just being...

occupied, and war crimes tribunals were conducted against German and Japanese leaders. The causes of World War II included unresolved tensions in the aftermath...

World War II saw the largest scale of war crimes and Crimes against humanity ever committed in an Armed conflict mostly against civilians and POWs. Most...

Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a theatre of World War II fought...

Radar in World War II greatly influenced many important aspects of the conflict. This revolutionary new technology of radio-based detection and tracking...

In World War II, many governments, organizations and individuals collaborated with the Axis powers, "out of conviction, desperation, or under coercion...

World War II in Colour is a 13-episode British television docuseries recounting the major events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell. It was first...

during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually active in nearly every...

during World War II The first naval battle during the war was fought on December 13, 1939, off the Atlantic coast of South America. The German "pocket...

Luftwaffe (German pronunciation: [ˈlʊftvafə] ) was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during...