Burma Campaign
Burma Campaign The Burma Campaign was a campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of ... Allied Initially command problems beset the Burma campaign. Burma was swapped from command to command ... so that the intended attacks in late 1944 could be co-ordinated to prevent ...
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Talk:Spanish in the Philippines
Talk:Spanish in the Philippines Talk:Spanish in the Philippines/Arcives:From Circulo Debate on the History of the Spanish language in the Philippines There seems to be a lot of ... history of the Spanish language in the Philippines. Some users (from my count 3 people ... from gosh knows where – stating that Philippines once had a large majority Spanish- ...
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Pacific War
... Japan attacked the United States, Thailand, the Philippines and British territories. Today, most Japanese also ... Kingdom (including British-controlled India), Australia, the Philippines, the Netherlands and New Zealand on the ... Kong, the International Settlement in Shanghai, the Philippines, which was then a United States commonwealth ... to the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. Other areas, including India, Australia and Hawaii ... put up a fierce resistance in the Philippines until May 8 1942 when more ...
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South West Pacific Area
... theatre of World War II, during 1942-45. The SWPA included the Philippines, Borneo, the Dutch East Indies (excluding Sumatra ... Chester Nimitz. The Allied commander in the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur was elevated to the ... surrounded US and Filipino forces in the Philippines, MacArthur was ordered by US President Franklin ... since the battles of the Solomon Islands campaign in 1942–1943 ranged over the whole ...
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Skull and Bones
... the original pick to organize the 1880 campaign for the Republican Party for President James ... the U.S. Postwar Planning Commission (1943-45). Bonesman Seymour's high level positions may ... from the late 1700s onward; in the Philippines from 1898 onward; and within the United ... become appointed Bonesman Governor-General of the Philippines, a position he held from 1913-21 ... held the (Bonesman) Civilian Governorship of the Philippines in the growing American empire, seized ...
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Participants in World War II
... Japan and recapture Burma (now Myanmar) in 1944. In 1941, with Nazi Germany's attack ... territory from Italy. Once the German Balkan Campaign was completed in 1941, Albania served as ... it too remained outside Andorran territory. In 1944, Charles de Gaulle established a new provisional ... war. The bitter and deadly New Guinea campaign came to occupy the attention of most ... to a close, Australian forces led the campaign to retake Borneo. Austria Austria became ...
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World War II
... out in Europe Main articles: Polish September Campaign, Russo-Finnish War, and Phony War German ... October, marking the end of the September Campaign. The Polish government (which never surrendered) together ... Garden. Polish infantry during the Polish September Campaign, September 1939. As Poland fell, the British ... 1940: The war spreads Main articles: Norwegian Campaign, Battle of France, Battle of Britain, North African Campaign, and Balkans Campaign Exhausted French soldier, ...
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List of wars and disasters by death toll
... the Somme (1916) 280,000 - Warsaw Uprising (1944) 280,000 - Second Battle of the Aisne ... 1942) 270,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1944) 260,000 - Battle of Verdun (1916) 260 ... France (1940) 175,000–350,000 - Operation Bagration (1944) 170,000 - Battle of the Lower Dnieper ... 101 BC) 132,000 - Battle of Normandy (1944) 130,000 - Battle of Gallipoli (1916) 130 ... Anchialus (917) 69,000 - Battle of Leyte (1944) 66,000 - Battle of Donbass (1943) ...
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Talk:World War II Casualties
... I'm assuming that was in the Philippines, because at the time it was US ... number: german recording system finally collapsed around 1944/45. More than a million missing (= also dead ... combat actions on the western front (in 1944/45) - the question is, how many civil ...
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Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur For the municipality in the Philippines, see General MacArthur, Eastern Samar. Douglas MacArthur ... history. President Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippines made him a Field Marshal in 1937 ... for both losing and re-taking the Philippines during World War II. He was appointed ... the Bonus Army, his command in the Philippines and New Guinea, and his challenge to ... was assigned to engineering duties in the Philippines, Wisconsin, Kansas, Michigan, Texas, and Panama, ...
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