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British Isles to United States large troopships TC Canada to British Isles 1939 1941 troopships carrying Canadian troops TCU Caribbean (later New York City) to Liverpool: 14-knot CU convoys of tankers and fast cargo ships with troopships: TU British Isles to United States 1943 1944 troopships TUC Liverpool to Caribbean (later New York City)
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]
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 ...
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.
About 1.2 million Austrians served in all branches of the German armed forces during World War II. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, the Allies occupied Austria in four occupation zones set up at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic under the condition that it remained neutral.
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
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 ...