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Military Dead Civilian Dead Total Dead Note World War II: 1939 1945 383,700 67,100 450,900 World War II deaths; includes deaths from the Crown Colonies: Arab revolt in Palestine: 1936 1939 262 262 Iraqi revolt against the British: 1920 1920 1,000 1,000 Tauber, E., The Formation of Modern Syria and Iraq, pp. 312-314 Anglo-Irish War: 1919 1921 ...
The Soviet Armed Forces suffered 8,700,000 military deaths and missing in action. The number of Czech partisan deaths was 2,170 The Czechoslovak military units on Eastern front lost 4,570 as dead. The Polish resistance movement suffered 100,000 deaths. The number of Bulgarian partisan deaths against the "fascists" was 10,000.
His estimates for Greek losses are as follows: the war dead included 20,000 military deaths in the Greco-Italian War of 1940–41, 60,000 non-Jewish civilians, 20,000 non-Jewish deportees, 60,000 Jews and 140,000 famine deaths during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.
Normandy landings. / 49.34; -0.60. The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
George Albert Cairns. Lord Frederick Cambridge. Sandy Campbell (British Army officer) Jock Campbell (British Army officer) Leslie Cant. Denis Capel-Dunn. Joe Carr (English footballer) Ronald Cartland. Joseph Casson.
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian ...
World War II. 2000–present. v. t. e. At the start of 1939, the British Army was, as it traditionally always had been, a small volunteer professional army. At the beginning of the Second World War on 1 September 1939, the British Army was small in comparison with those of its enemies, as it had been at the beginning of the First World War in 1914.
British military personnel killed in World War II. British military personnel killed in action in the Second World War (1939-1945). Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should ...