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Australia to India 1945 1945 troopships HC Kolkata to Chittagong: JA Colombo to Aden: JC Colombo to Kolkata: JM India to Madagascar via Kilindini Harbour: 1943 1943 JMG assault convoy to Malaya: September 1945 1 JS Colombo to Singapore: November 1941 February 1942 KA Kilindini Harbour to Aden: KB Karachi to Mumbai: KD Kilindini Harbour to ...
1942: Brazil enters World War II. Demand is high for Amazon rubber. Brazil launches the ill-fated "Rubber Soldiers" program. 1947: Cerro Bolívar, iron ore deposit south of Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, is found and estimated at half a billion tons of high-grade ore. Puerto Ordaz is selected in 1953 as site for steel mill and huge hydroelectric plant.
Brazil's engagement in World War II can be viewed as more substantial than Japan's role in World War I. While Brazil's numerical and tactical contributions were greater during World War II, Japan was able to leverage its participation in World War I more effectively for political and strategic gains during the interwar years. [7] [9]
The Oxford Companion to World War II (2005), comprehensive encyclopedia for all countries; Eccles, Karen E. and Debbie McCollin, eds. World War II and the Caribbean (2017) excerpt; Frank, Gary. Struggle for hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War (Routledge, 2021). Friedman, Max Paul.
Warship Losses of World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-914-X. Cressman, Robert J. (2000). The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-149-1. Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941–1945). Annapolis ...
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II (2010). Raghavan, Srinath. India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia (2016). wide-ranging scholarly survey excerpt; Read, Anthony, and David Fisher. The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence (1999) detailed scholarly history of ...
Brazil's participation in World War II on the Allied side was not a foregone conclusion. Although it had supported the Triple Entente in World War I—as had now-Axis-aligned Japan and Romania—the country's contribution to the war took place in its waning years and was primarily naval, although it also sent a small military mission to the Western Front.
1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the Battle of El Alamein; the Jews of Salonika are rounded up for deportation to extermination camps; Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War fight the Battle of Stalingrad; USS Lexington (CV-2) under fire at the Battle of the Coral Sea; Reinhard Heydrich's car after attack by Czech resistance; 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking troops ...