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This list of World War II military operations is for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern region land operations and operations within the Mediterranean Sea, e.g. naval operations such as Category:Malta Convoys.
The Battle of the Mediterranean was the name given to the naval campaign fought in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II, from 10 June 1940 to 2 May 1945.. For the most part, the campaign was fought between the Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina), supported by other Axis naval and air forces, those of Nazi Germany and Vichy France, and the British Royal Navy, supported by other Allied naval ...
The British referred to this theatre as the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre (so called due to the location of the fighting and the name of Middle East Command), the Americans called it the Mediterranean Theater of War and the German informal official history of the fighting is the Mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa 1939 ...
World War II sites in Malta (2 C, 28 P) Pages in category "Mediterranean Sea operations of World War II" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army (MTOUSA), originally called the North African Theater of Operations, United States Army (NATOUSA), was a military formation of the United States Army that supervised all U.S. Army forces which fought in North Africa and Italy during World War II. United States Army operations in the ...
The Allies were able to keep their North African armies supplied. The Kriegsmarine tried to isolate Malta but later it concentrated its U-boat operations on disrupting Allied landing operations in southern Europe. [clarification needed] Some 60 German U-boats made the hazardous passage into the Mediterranean Sea from 1941. Only one completed ...
White Sea to Dikson Island: September 1943 BK White Sea to Kola Inlet: Summer 1941 BTC Bristol Channel to River Thames: 1944 1945 165 CE St. Helens Roads to Southend-on-Sea: 1940 1944 261 CW Southend-on-Sea to St. Helens Roads 1940 1944 270 DB Dikson Island to White Sea: 1942 DF River Clyde to Faroe Islands: military ferry service DS River ...
Churchill's Folly: Leros and the Aegean: The Last Great British Defeat of World War II. Athens: Iolkos. ISBN 978-960-426-434-6. Schenk, Peter (2000). Kampf um die Ägäis. Die Kriegsmarine in den griechischen Gewässern 1941–1945 [Battle for the Aegean Sea: The Navy in Greek Waters in 1941–1945] (in German). Germany: Mittler & Sohn.