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Department of History : WWII European Theater

 
WWII Principals Campaigns of the European Theater
National Realignments from World War I
German Expansion, 1936 -1939
Campaign In Poland, Industry and Communications,1939
Campaign In Poland, Disposition Of Oposing Forces, 31 August 1939
Campaign In Poland, Deployment Of The Wehrmacht, 1 September 1939
Campaign In Poland, 1 - 14 September 1939
Campaign In Poland, 15-22 September 1939
Campaign In Norway, Norwegian Dispositions And Initial German Operations, 9 April and May
Campaign In The West, Plan As Modified To 15 January 1940
Campaign In The West, Dispostion and Oposing Forces, 1940
Campaign In The West, 10-16 May 1940
Campaign In The West, 16-21 May 1940
Campaign In The West, Situation 4 June 1940
Campaign In The West, Situation 12 June1940
Campaign In The West, 13-25 June
Russo-Finnish War, December 1939 February 1940
Operations in Finland, December 1939-January 1940
Battle of Suomussalmi, December 1939-January 1940
Finland, The decisive Offensive, 1-21 February 1940
Campaign In The Balkans, Invasion Of Yugoslavia And Greece, April 1941
Campaign In The Balkans, German Assault On Crete, May 1941
German Invasion Of Russia, 22 June-25 August 1941
German Invasion Of Russia, Advance On Moscow, 26 August-5 December
Soviet Winter Offensive, 6 December 941 -7 May 1942
The Battle of Moscow, December 1941-Febraury 1942
German Summer Offensive, 7 May-23 July 1942
German Advance To Stalingrad, 24 July-18 November 1942
The Battle of Stalingrad
Soviet Winter Offensive, 19 November-12 December 1942
Soviet Winter Offensive, 13 December 1942 -18 February 1942
Soviet Winter Offensive, 19 February-18 March 1943
German Summer Offensive, Situation 4 July-1943 & Battle Of Kursk, 4 July-1 August 1943
Soviet Summer And Fall Offensives, 17 July-1 December 1943
Russian Leningrad And Ukraine Offensives, 2 December 1943-30 April 1944
OPERATION BAGRATION. 22 June-19 August 1944
Russian Balkan And Baltic Campaigns, 19 August-31 December 1944
Soviet Offensive To The Oder, 12 January-30 March
The Mediterranean Basin
North Africa, Graziani's Advance And Wavell's Offensive,13 September 1940 -7 February 1941
North Africa, Auchinleck's Offensive, 18 November-31 December 1941
Libya, Initial Dispostions, German-Italian Attack, 26-27 May 1942
Libya, Decisive German-Italian Breakout, 12-13 June 1942
Pursuit To Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
The Race For Tunis, 11-17 November 1942
The Race For Tunis, Situation 1 January 1943
Campaign In Northwest Africa, The Battle Of Kasserine Pass 14-22 February1942
Tunisia, Situation 22 April 1943
Europe And The Middle East
Pacific And The Far East
Campaign In Sicily, Allied Plan And Axis Dispositions, 10 July, 1943
Campaign In Sicily, 11 July, 1943
Allied Invasion Of Italy And Operations, September 1943
Allied Advances To Volturno River And Attack On Gustav Line, 17 January-11 May 1944
Attempts To Cross Rapido And Garigliano Rivers And German Counterattack, 17-19 February 1944
Operations At Anzio And Cassino, 11-30 May 1944
Allied Offensives In Italy, 5 June- 31December 1944
Allied Plan Of Northen Italy Attack, April 1945
Overlord Plan, Combined Bomber Offensive And German Dispositions, 6 June 1944
Allied Invasion Force And German Dispositions, 6 June 1944
The Invasion Of Normandy And Operations, 6-12 June 1944
UTAH Beachhead-VII Corps D-Day Operations, 6 June 1944
OMAH Beachhead-V Corps D-Day Operations, 6 June 1944
The Capture of Cherbourg And Operations, 13-30 June 1944
Expanding The Beachhead, 1-24 July 1944
Allied Gains In Europe, June-July 1944
St. Lo, German Dispositions Night of 24-25 July 1944
OPERATION COBRA, 25-29 July 1944
St. Lo, The Breakthrough, 25-31 July 1944
The Breakout, 1-13 August1944
Explotation, 14-25 1944
Pursuit To The West Wall, 26 August-14 September 1944
Operations In Southern France, 15-28 August 1944 & The Invasion Force
21st Army Group Operationsl, 15 September-15 December 1944
6th And 12th Army Group Operations, 15 September-7 November 1944
6th And 12th Army Group Operations, 8 November-15 December 1944
The General Situation, 15 December 1944
German Ardennes Counter-Offensive, 16-25 December 1944
German Ardennes Counter-Offensive, 26 December 1944 16 January 1945
German Ardennes Counter-Offensive, 17 January-7 February 1945
German Offensive, And Allied Reduction Of Colmar, 1 Jan.-9 Feb. & Territoral Changes, 16 Dec.-7 Feb. 1945
The Rhineland Campaign, Operations 8 February-5 March & Operations 6-10 March 1945
The Rhineland Campaign, Operations 11-21 March 1945 & Summary
Allied Gains In Europe, December 1944-May 1945
Crossing Of The Rhine, 22-28 March 1945
Encirclement Of The Ruhr, 29 March-4 April 1945
Reduction Of Ruhr Pocket And Adnace To the Elbe And Middle Rivers, 5-18 April 1945
Final Operations, 19 April-7 May 1945
Allied Occupation Zones
 
The following two maps are a result of a colloborative project between the United States Military Academy and the United States Air Force Academy.

8th and 15th Air Force Heavy Bomber Radii of Action in the Combined Bomber Offensive, January 1943 - May 1845
British Heavy Bomber Radii of Action in the Combined Bomber Offensive, January 1943 - May 1845

Animations are provided courtesy of the Combat Stuties Institute, United States Army.
World War Two European Theater Overview

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