Overall, Yellow succeeded beyond what most people had expected, despite the fact that the Allies had 4, 000 armoured vehicles and the Germans 2, 200, and the Allied tanks were often superior in armour and caliber of cannon.

Von Rundstedt advised him the infantry should attack the British forces at Arras, where the British had proved capable of significant action, while Kleist's armour held the line west and south of Dunkirk in order to pounce on the Allied forces retreating before Army Group B.

The terrain around Dunkirk was considered unsuitable for armour, so the Allied forces ' destruction was initially assigned to the Luftwaffe and the German infantry organised in Army Group B.

There were several problems with this, particularly the lack of fuel for rapid movements of armour, the Allied air superiority which enabled them to disrupt the transport system, and the increasingly effective sabotage efforts of the French resistance.

A further brigade supported by two Commando battalions landed from the sea north of the river at Termoli, and a fiercely contested battle ensued which had hung in the balance when temporary river crossings had been washed away after heavy rains and prevented Allied armour from moving forward.

There were also problems with its penetrative power ; although the PIAT was theoretically able to penetrate approximately of armour, field experience during the Allied invasion of Sicily, which was substantiated by trials conducted during 1944, confirmed otherwise.

Allied intelligence also indicated that two companies of armour were in the area, as were a number of ad hoc infantry formations formed from training establishments.

On the morning of February 22, an intense artillery barrage from the massed Allied guns pre-empted the planned continuation of the 10th Panzer battle group's attack, destroying armour and vehicles and disrupting communications.

As more German armour arrived, the Allied troops across the Biferno were forced onto the defensive.

40 / 43, was capable of penetrating 190 mm of rolled steel armour at a 30 ° angle of impact at a distance of 1, 000 m. The gun's tremendous performance enabled Nashorn to penetrate the front plating of any Allied armoured vehicle and to engage enemy while staying out of range themselves.

Unlike Market Garden, the airborne forces would be dropped only a relatively short distance behind German lines, thereby ensuring that reinforcements in the form of Allied ground forces would be able to link up with them within a short period: this avoided risking the same type of disaster that had befallen the British 1st Airborne Division when it had been isolated and practically annihilated by German infantry and armour at Arnhem.

Rommel pushed his armoured forces round the southern flank of the Gazala position to engage the British armour in the rear of the Allied defences.

Despite successes in this engagement, Rommel's armour found itself in a precarious position: interference to supply lines resulting from the continuing resistance of Free French at Bir Hakeim, which anchored the southern end of the Allied Gazala defences, left his tanks short of fuel and ammunition.

The tank battle continued for three days and with Bir Hakeim holding out, the Panzer Army Afrika found itself trapped in a region known as " the Cauldron ", with Bir Hakeim to the south, Tobruk to the north, and the extensive mine belts of the original Allied front line to the west, and assailed by Allied armour from the north and east.

Rommel further made extensive use of and rapidly acted on intelligence obtained from intercepts of Allied radio traffic, directing his armour towards the units calling for assistance.

In fact the Allies had mistakenly assumed the Panther, like the Tiger, would be a rare heavy tank with a limited production run, rather than a total replacement for their medium tanks, and the larger-than-expected number of Panthers came as a nasty shock to the Allied commanders as well as the tank crews forced to engage them with guns that could not penetrate the frontal armour at anything other than short range.

The thin armour of the tanks meant that such weapons were effective against other vehicles, though the Germans fielded few tanks anyway and the Allied tanks concentrated on anti-infantry and infantry support activities.

In February the Battalion was involved in the Allied invasion of the German Rhineland, including taking part in the Battle of the Reichswald: the five-division assault on the Reichswald Forest, where the battalion was involved in heavy fighting against German paratroops and armour at the village of Asperberg.

But the onslaught of Allied armour was much superior in numbers.

The planners for Transfigure envisioned the airborne divisions and brigade landing near Rambouillet and capturing an airstrip, after which the 52nd ( Lowland ) Infantry Division could be flown in to aid in the establishment of an airhead which Allied armour could use as a forward base to advance towards Paris.

The centre, commanded by the Duke's brother, General Charles Churchill, consisted of 18 battalions of infantry arranged in two lines: seven battalions in the front line to secure a foothold across the Nebel, and 11 battalions in the rear providing cover from the Allied side of the stream.

From the start, the Yugoslav resistance forces consisted of two factions: the communist-led Yugoslav Partisans and the royalist Chetniks, with the former receiving Allied recognition only at the Tehran conference ( 1943 ).

It entailed the creation of the belief in German minds that the Allied force consisted of two army groups, 21st Army Group under Montgomery ( the genuine Normandy invasion force ), and 1st U. S. Army Group ( FUSAG ) ( a fictitious force under General George Patton ), positioned in southeastern England for a crossing at the Pas de Calais.

Allied forces in this attack consisted of 5 cruisers, 24 destroyers, 238 landing craft, 62 + other ships, 40, 000 soldiers, and 5, 000 + vehicles.

Major General Matthew B. Ridgway commanded the corps, which then consisted of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division and was part of the First Allied Airborne Army.

By 1954 ACE's forces consisted of Allied Forces Northern Europe, at Oslo, Allied Forces Central Europe ( Fontainebleau ), Allied Forces Southern Europe ( Paris / Naples ) and Allied Forces Mediterranean at Malta.

The position, which was known as the Twin Pimples, consisted of two small hills that sat close together and from where the Italians were able to observe the Allied lines.

The Army was now subordinated to the headquarters of Allied Land Forces, South East Asia ( ALFSEA ), and consisted of IV Corps and XXXIII Corps.

It consisted of a headquarters and special troops assigned to gather historical data on Allied operations during the war.

Allied forces in China consisted of Chiang Kai-Shek's NRA, and American units based in China such as those involved in Operation Matterhorn.

In time, the Allied forces available for the landing at Narvik consisted of British, French, Polish and Norwegian soldiers and sailors.

It primarily consisted of United States and Australian forces, although Dutch, Filipino, British and other Allied forces also served in the SWPA.

The First Allied Airborne Army consisted of

From 1944 to the end of war the Italian Front was made up of a multi-national Allied force, this force consisted of Americans ( including segregated African and Japanese-Americans ), Brazilians, British, Canadians, Czechs, French, Greeks, anti-fascist Italians, New Zealanders, Poles, South Africans as well as members of the British and French empires ( including Algerians, Gurkhas, Indians, Moroccans and multi ethnic forces from the British Mandate in Palestine.

The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 between Japanese and Allied — primarily Australian — forces in what was then the Australian territory of Papua.

By 16: 00, with the enemy troops besieged in Blenheim and Oberglau, the Allied centre of 81 squadrons ( nine squadrons had been transferred from Cutts ' column ), supported by 18 battalions was firmly planted amidst the French line of 64 squadrons and nine battalions of raw recruits.

The Allied soldiers who died driving the Germans from Tuscany are buried in cemeteries outside the city ( Americans about nine kilometres south of the city, British and Commonwealth soldiers a few kilometres east of the centre on the right bank of the Arno ).

On 14 May 1955, the USSR established the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO in October 1954 – only nine years after the defeat of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 45 ) that ended with the Soviet and Allied invasion of Germany in 1944 / 45 during World War II in Europe.

The last great Allied effort to achieve a breakthrough came on 15 September in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette with the initial advance made by 11 British divisions ( nine from Fourth Army, two Canadian divisions on the Reserve Army sector ) and a later attack by four French corps.

In mid-September 1943, nine days after the initial Allied landings, he led the division ashore at Salerno on the Italian mainland, where it fought its way up the peninsula.

The year ended with a total of nine Allied ships sunk and several damaged.

Allied Domecq's spirits division operated a combination of nine core global brands, plus a selection of local market leaders.

Three Allied aircraft were destroyed on the ground, and one P-40 was lost in the air, but the Allied fighters claimed to have shot down nine Japanese planes.

In April 1945, the Japanese battleship ( the largest battleship in the world )— along with nine other Japanese warships — embarked from Japan on a deliberate suicide attack upon Allied forces engaged in the Battle of Okinawa.

The Declaration by United Nations was a World War II document agreed to on January 1, 1942 during the Arcadia Conference by 26 governments: the Allied " Big Four " ( the USA, the UK, the USSR, and China ), nine American allies in Central America and the Caribbean, the four British Dominions, British India, and eight Allied governments-in-exile, for a total of twenty-six nations.