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Includes land and sea operations relating to north-west Europe, but excludes: purely naval operations in the adjoining waters (see: List of World War II military operations - Atlantic Ocean) operations in Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), Iceland and Greenland (see: Military operations in Scandinavia and Iceland during World ...
Ikarus (1940) – planned German invasion of Iceland in response to British Operation Fork. Juno (1940) – German naval operation to disturb allied supplies to Norway. Kilpapurjehdus ("Regatta") (1941) – Finnish naval operation for the militarization of the Åland islands.
Phony War (Oct 1939-April 1940) Battle of France (with Benelux countries/Fall Gelb) (May–June 1940) Battle of Britain ( + Operation Sea Lion Unternehmen Seelöwe) (July–October 1940) Western Front (1944–1945) Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) commanded Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until May 1945.
Finnish ski troops in Northern Finland January 12, 1940. 1 February: The Japanese Diet announces a record high budget with over half its expenditures being military.; 5 February: Britain and France decide to intervene in Norway to cut off the iron ore trade in anticipation of an expected German occupation and ostensibly to open a route to assist Finland.
Battle of Europe air operations; ... This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II in 1941, ... 1940). Schulenburg replies that it has ...
Operation Loge 1940 - German 65-day air offensive against London, England; Operation Luchs 1940 - German planned breakthrough between Breisach and Strasbourg, France; part of Fall Grün; Operation Lucie 1940 - German planned invasion of the Dutch island of Texel in the North Sea; Operation Luftparade 1940 - German night raid on British air bases
27 January: The first World War II US mission flown against the German homeland bombs Kriegsmarine submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven. [27]: 107 5/6 March: The first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr [2] flew RAF Bomber Command's 100,000th sortie of World War II, with 160 acres destroyed and 53 Krupps buildings bombed at Essen.
The World War II Databook: The Essential Facts and Figures for all the combatants. BCA. ISBN 978-1-85410-254-6. Frieser, Karl-Heinz (1995). Blitzkrieg-Legende: Der Westfeldzug 1940, Operationen des Zweiten Weltkrieges [The Blitzkrieg Myth: The Western Campaign in 1940, Operations of the Second World War] (in German). München: R. Oldenbourg.