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International law at the outset of World War II did not specifically forbid the aerial bombardment of cities – despite the prior occurrence of such bombing during World War I (1914–1918), the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), and the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).
This list of military awards and decorations of World War II is an index to articles on notable military awards presented by the combatants during World War II This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Lee–Enfield Short Magazine Mk I, Mk II and Mk III; Lee–Metford Mk I and Mk II; Lee–Speed No.1 and No.2; Mauser–Verqueiro M1904 (Used by South African units) Marlin M1894 [citation needed] Martini–Enfield Mk I and Mk II; Martini–Henry Mk IV; Remington M1901 Rolling Block; Remington Model 14-1/2; Ross Mark III (Canadian service)
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II. (2004) ISBN 978-1400031290; Anne Noggle; Christine A. White. A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II. (2001) ISBN 978-1585441778; Ofer, Dalia and Lenore J. Weitzman. Women in the Holocaust. (1998) ISBN 978-0300073546; Soderbergh, Peter. Women Marines: The World War II Era.
A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. [1] Conventionally, the term is reserved for two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), although some historians have also characterised other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Nine ...
Omaha Beach is the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II. The beach is on the coast of Normandy, France, facing the English Channel, and is 5 miles (8 km) long, from east of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes to west of Vierville-sur-Mer on the ...
War with the U.S. and other Western allies of World War II began with the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Over the course of seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines , Guam and Wake Island , the Dutch Empire in the Dutch East Indies , Thailand and on the British Empire in Borneo , Malaya and ...
This list of World War II films (1950–1989) contains fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1950 which feature events of World War II in the narrative. The entries on this list are war films or miniseries that are concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War ) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.