SECOND WORLD WAR (1939 - 1945) Operation Anton
End of the Battle of Madagascar
The Alamein End of the Second Battle.
It was the continuation of the First Battle of Alamein, which had stopped the advance of the Afrika Korps forces. After some strong clashes between British and German armored vehicles, Rommel’s forces were repelled by the 9th Australian Division. The German forces escaped to Tunisia, where they received some reinforcements that they need because in the Northwest coast of Africa had disembarked the Anglo-American troops in the Operation Torch. The France’s Vichy forces then turned against Germany, forcing Rommel to fight a war with two fronts in a hostile territory.
Operation Torch
Erwin Rommel
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of the Kokoda
Disembarkation and advance towards Tunisia of the Anglo-American troops in the Second World War during the campaign in the North of Africa.
Naval battle of
Casablanca
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It consisted on a series of battles fought between the months of July and November of 1942 between Japanese forces and allied forces -composed mainly by Australian soldiers- in the current Papua New Guinea.
Naval battle of
This way It was called a series of encounters between American forces and Vichy French forces in front the coast of Casablanca until the surrender of the French forces.
German field marshal. Commander of the Afrika Korps
End of the Campaign
Fall Anton, in German, was the coded name given to the military operation of the Third Reich to occupy the whole territory of France’s Vichy, with the help of the Fascist Italy.
Allied campaign to capture Madagascar, that was controlled by France’s Vichy forces.
NOVEMBER 1942 – CHRONOLOGY
Guadalcanal
Decisive and strategic battle that faced the Allied forces (especially Americans) against Japanese forces. It consisted in a sequence of attacks combined by sea and air to counteract the Japanese effort to reinforce their ground forces on the island. That made a strategic change in the development of the Pacific War. Admiral William Halsey escribed the new situation: “Before Guadalcanal, the enemy advanced according to their whim; after Guadalcanal it retreats according to our.”
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Operation Torch
The news about the total occupation of France by the Wehrmacht arrived to North of Africa in the night of the 10th. Before this situation, Darlan convinced to the military leaders to join the Anglo-Americans, and so they had to leave their loyalty to Vichy due to the German occupation.
Beginning of the
Battle of Buna Gona
Important battle of the New Campaign. Guinea during the War of the Pacific in the Second World War that had place on the northeast coast of New Guinea. This battle started when the Australian forces and Americans assaulted the heads of most important Japanese beaches in Buna, Sanananda and Gona.
End of the naval battle of Casablanca
In the last phases of this battle intervened the German aircrafts and submarines, when the forces of the Vichy France were already giving up. Finally the Americans took control of Casablanca.
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Battle of Tassafaronga
It was a night naval battle that was developed in the Pacific between the Japanese Imperial Navy and the Navy of the U.S. The battle took place in the Strait of Iron Fund (called Ironbottom Sound), Near the Tassafaronga area in Guadalcanal
End of the
Operation Anton
Executed by the Soviet Union. Their ultimate goal was the expulsion of the German forces from the Volga river, and taking the ones which were located in Stalingrad.
British field marshal. Commander of the VIII Allied Army in North Africa
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Offensive launched by the Soviet Union against the forces of the Nazi Germany. It developed between the cities of Rzhev, Sychevka and Viazma, at the west of Moscow. The battles were known as «the mincer meat from Rzhev» for the huge Soviet losses. Many details were hidden, largely for mitigate the huge losses that the Soviets suffered. The Soviet advertising said that the Operation Mars only consisted in an offensive of fun for Operation Uranus.
Operation Uranus
Bernard Law Montgomery
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Operation Mars
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Ref: 1143
Ref: 1132/C
PPSh-41 submachine gun Soviet Union 1941 (WW II) With belt, 85 cm. 3740 gr.
Ref: 1119
Mk 4 revolver, designed by Webley, UK 1923 (World War II) 28.5 cm. 700 gr.
Ref: 1111/C
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With simulating mechanism of loading and firing.
M1A1 carbine, with belt. USA 1944 (WW II) 90 cm. 2393 gr.
Parabellum Luger P08 pistol, Germany 1898. (WW I & II) 25,5 cm. 965 gr.
Ref: 9301
MP40 sub-machine gun 9mm. Germany 1940 (WW II) With leather belt 64 cm. 3660 gr.
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