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The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka [1]) was a strategy meeting of the Allies of World War II, held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943.
In total Attlee attended 0.5 meetings, Churchill 16.5, de Gaulle 1, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 7, and Truman 1. For some of the major wartime conference meetings involving Roosevelt and later Truman, the code names were words which included a numeric prefix corresponding to the ordinal number of the conference in the series of such conferences.
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
There were three types of camps for Japanese and Japanese-American civilians in the United States during World War II. Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities.
Major Japanese tactical victory resulting in the destruction of American naval ships and base installations; Failure of Japanese objective to destroy American aircraft carriers and achieve decisive victory; Caused the United States to formally enter World War II and declare war on Japan, Germany, and Italy
Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1918–1941) Timeline of Sweden during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Netherlands during World War II (1939–1945) Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II
June 21–22, 1942 – Bombardment of Fort Stevens, the second attack on a U.S. military base in the continental U.S. in World War II. September 9, 1942, and September 29, 1942 – Lookout Air Raids, the only attack by enemy aircraft on the contiguous U.S. and the second enemy aircraft attack on the U.S. continent in World War II.
Serving in the RAF, he became the first American ace of World War II [316] Parker Dupouy American Volunteer Group, USAAF 6.5 [2] Dewey F. Durnford USMC 6.5 DFC (3) [317] Glenn T. Eagleston: USAAF 18.5 DSC, SS Top ace in the 9th Air Force, claimed 2 additional victories during the Korean War [318] Hoyt A. Eason 6 SS MIA 3 March 1943 [319] Clyde ...