Great Britain
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Details

Name: Great Britain
Continent: Europe
Capital: London
Government:
Population (1939): 47,800,000
Casualties:
Military Civilian Total
403,000 92,700 495,700
Area:
Land Water Total

Battles

Battle of the Atlantic Atlantic September 3, 1939 May 7, 1945
Battle of River Plate European Theater December 13, 1939
First Naval Battle of Narvik European Theater April 10, 1940
Second Battle of Narvik European Theater April 13, 1940
Battle of France (Fall Gelb / Case Yellow) European Theater May 10, 1940 June 22, 1940
Evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) European Theater May 26, 1940 June 4, 1940
Battle of Britain European Theater June 10, 1940 October 31, 1940
Invasion of Iran (Operation Countenance) European Theater August 25, 1941 September 17, 1941
Battle of Normandy (Operation Overlord / Operation Neptune) European Theater June 6, 1944 June 30, 1944
Operation Market Garden European Theater September 17, 1944 September 25, 1944
Battle of Taranto Mediterranean November 11, 1940 November 12, 1940
Battle of Crete Mediterranean May 20, 1941 June 1, 1941
Invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky) Mediterranean July 9, 1943 August 17, 1943
Invasion of Italy - Calabria (Operation Baytown) Mediterranean September 3, 1943
Invasion of Italy - Salerno (Operation Avalanche) Mediterranean September 9, 1943
First Battle of El Alamein North Africa July 1, 1942 July 27, 1942
Second Battle of El Alamein North Africa October 23, 1942 November 5, 1942
Battle of Guadalcanal Pacific Theater August 7, 1942 February 9, 1943
Battle of Okinawa Pacific Theater April 1, 1945 June 21, 1945

Photographs

World War II: A Yank wounded in the first assault of Allied troops against German held beaches in France, is lifted into an Ambulance by men of a colored medical unit. England. 8 June 1944. World War II: Casualties, from the shores of France, arrive at a hospital base in England. 7 June 1944. World War II: This is not the "Road Back"! These Germans file through the barbed stockade of a prisoner of war camp somewhere in England. They were among the first captured during the initial assaults of Allied troops on German held beaches in France. England. 8 June 1944. World War II: In the intelligence trailers of a 9th Air Force P-47, pilots are interrogated on their return from France. Left to right: General Strickland, Interrogator; Captain John R. Murphy, Fargo, North Dakota; Captain Barry Jones, Elberton; Lieutenant Robert N. Fry, Erie, Pennsylvania, Interrogator; and Colonel A. W. Schofield, Houston, Texas, Interrogator. P Fighter Bomber Base in England. 7 June 1944. World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the day, "full victory -- nothing else", to paratroopers somewhere in England just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe. England. 6 June 1944.