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  2. List of Allied convoys during World War II by region

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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 ...

  3. Timeline of Amazon history - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Brazil in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Carmen Miranda was considered the muse of the "Good neighbor policy" of rapprochement with Latin America. World War II contributed to this. Attacks by Axis submarines on Brazilian ships between 1941 and 1944 resulted in the deaths of over a thousand individuals and were a key factor in Brazil's entry into World War II.

  5. Latin America during World War II - Wikipedia

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    In 1940, after he expressed his concern to President Franklin D. Roosevelt over Nazi influence in Latin America, Nelson Rockefeller, grandson of Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and later U.S. Vice President, was appointed to the new position of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA).

  6. Declarations of war during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Below is a table showing the outbreak of wars between nations which occurred during World War II. Indicated are the dates (during the immediate build-up to, or during the course of, World War II), from which a de facto state of war existed between nations. The table shows both the "Initiator Nation(s)" and the nation at which the aggression was ...

  7. Indian Ocean in World War II - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. United States theaters of operations in World War II

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    The officially recognized US Army campaigns in the China Burma India Theater are: [5] Burma campaigns: Burma 1942: 7 December 1941 – 26 May 1942, allied defensive operations during the Japanese conquest of Burma; India-Burma: 2 April 1942 – 28 January 1945, allied operations in Burma 1942–43 and Burma and India 1944

  9. India in World War II - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, in 1941, the British presented a captured German BF 109 single-engined fighter to the Nizam of Hyderabad, in return for the funding of 2 RAF fighter squadrons. [ 57 ] There was a campsite for Polish refugees at Valivade , in Kolhapur State , it was the largest settlement of Polish refugees in India during the war.