Some Allied officers who were acquainted with the superior numbers of the enemy, and aware of their strong defensive position, ventured to remonstrate with Marlborough about the hazards of attacking ; but the Duke was resolute – " I know the danger, yet a battle is absolutely necessary, and I rely on the bravery and discipline of the troops, which will make amends for our disadvantages ".

With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.

Eisenhower's first struggles however were with Allied leaders and officers on matters vital to the success of the Normandy invasion ; he argued with Roosevelt over an essential agreement with de Gaulle to use French resistance forces in covert and sabotage operations against the Germans in advance of Overlord.

With other Turkish officers, Mustafa Kemal halted and eventually repelled the Allied advance, Mustafa Kemal exceeding his authority and contravening orders in so doing.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

When Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Allied Commander for the planned Normandy Landings he suggested that Alexander become ground forces commander, as he was popular with both British and US officers.

At the time, most U. S. commanders at lower levels had little or no combat experience of any kind ; without the input of experienced British or Allied combat officers on the nature of modern warfare and enemy tactics, many of them resorted to formulaic training methods emphasizing static defense and orderly large-scale advances by motorized convoys over improved roads.

During this time he taught himself the Portuguese language to read the poet Camões in the original ; as insufficient Russian-speaking officers were available at the War Office, his knowledge of the Russian language and textual analysis skills were used to translate a Russian parachute training manual-a task he completed after 11pm on top of his normal duties, deducing the meaning of many technical terms from the context ; he was convinced that the Soviet Union must eventually enter the war on the Allied side.

The Public Relations and Information Services Control Group of the British Element of the Allied Control Commission began in 1945 to issue directives to officers in charge of producing newspapers and radio broadcasts for the German population to emphasize " the moral responsibility of all Germans for Nazi crimes.

As a war artist, he was allowed to keep his facial hair and therefore, he and King George V were the only Army officers in the Allied forces to have a beard.

Allied to this was a greatly increased incidence of smuggling due to rationing, to the point where police virtually became revenue officers.

These officers were willing to support the Allies, but asked for a clandestine conference with a senior Allied General in Algeria.

In common with most Allied air officers, Major Blake, who was responsible for Richthofen's remains, regarded the Red Baron with great respect, and he organised a full military funeral, to be conducted by the personnel of No. 3 Squadron AFC.

Many of the Allied officers, including the Tsar's aides and the Austrian Chief of Staff Franz von Weyrother, strongly supported the idea of attacking immediately and appeared to be swaying Tsar Alexander ’ s opinion.

Used as a workhouse for the indigent and a mental institution for over 100 years, it gained international fame as a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II for " incorrigible " Allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other camps.

Bogarde claimed to have been one of the first Allied officers in April 1945 to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, an experience that had the most profound effect on him and about which he found it difficult to speak for many years afterward.

As General Walter Bedell Smith, chief of staff to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War II, pointed out, General Eisenhower and many of his staff officers, products of these academies, " were imbued with the idea of this type of wide, bold maneuver for decisive results.

Because of his posthumous promotion, he was also one of the highest-ranked Allied officers that was killed in action in World War II.

The term " Mèo Maquis " was originally used by Free French and Allied intelligence officers to describe the Hmong resistance forces working against the Japanese forces occupying Indochina and China during World War II.

The series interviewed major members of the Allied and Axis campaigns, including eyewitness accounts by civilians, enlisted men, officers and politicians, amongst them Albert Speer, Karl Dönitz, Walter Warlimont, James Stewart, Bill Mauldin, W. Averell Harriman, Curtis LeMay, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Alger Hiss, Toshikazu Kase, Mitsuo Fuchida, Minoru Genda, J.

On the first Christmas after World War I, three Allied officers meet by chance in a train compartment and find one another vaguely familiar.

These killings were ordered by officers from Sondergruppe R as the best way to neutralize the efforts of the Allied Control Commission.

Amongst the Allied military officers executed at Flossenbürg were Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) agent Gustave Daniel Alfred Biéler ( executed 6 September 1944 ).

Though fictional, the Allied officers of Hogan's Heroes used a wire recorder to record a meeting in Kommandant Klink's office on a device that was disguised as a sewing box made of wooden thread spools.

The Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered by May 1943, and Alexander's command became the 15th Army Group, which was, under Eisenhower, responsible for mounting in July the Allied invasion of Sicily, again seeing Alexander controlling two armies: Montgomery's Eighth Army and George S. Patton's Seventh United States Army.

The League's duties were confined to seeing that the specific and detailed terms of the mandates were in accordance with the decisions taken by the Allied and Associated Powers, and that in carrying out these mandates the Mandatory Powers should be under the supervision — not under the control — of the League.

* May 8 – WWII: The Battle of the Coral Sea ( first battle in naval history where 2 enemy fleets fight without seeing each other's fleets ) ends in an Allied victory.

It is therefore possible that the 60, 000 quoted by Herodotus is actually the total number of Persians present at Mycale ; the Persians certainly outnumbered the Allies, emerging from the palisade in confidence after seeing the smaller number of the Allied troops.

At first they misdirected the fleeing Persian contingents so that they ended up back amongst the Allied troops ; then, perhaps seeing the outcome of the battle was certain, they began killing the fleeing Persians.

It is during this battle that, seeing the French determination to gain the high ground in spite of the murderous Allied volleys, William exclaimed, " Oh!

The majority followed John Redmond in support of the British and Allied war effort, seeing it as the only option to ensure the enactment of Home Rule after the war, Redmond saying " you will return as an armed army capable of confronting Ulster's opposition to Home Rule ".

The 5th Armoured took part in the Italian Campaign until the end of 1944 seeing notable action on the Hitler Line after the Allied breakthrough at Cassino in May 1944 and also during Operation Olive on the Gothic Line in August 1944.

French soldiers reported seeing yellow-green clouds drifting slowly towards the Allied trenches.

Allied fighter pilots reported seeing supersonic shock waves and popped rivets during dives as the high-speed air rushing over the wing exceeded Mach 1 even though the forward airspeed of the overall aircraft was well below that speed.

First seeing service in France, the army was involved in the protection of the Channel coast from a possible Allied invasion.

But Goebbels banned its playing in Germany altogether, stating that the German people — who were by that point going through almost nightly Allied bombing raids — were less than enthusiastic about seeing a film that portrayed mass death and panic.

The unit fought with distinction in several theatres during the war, beginning with the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943, through the Italian Campaign ( World War II ) seeing action in the fierce Liri Valley, Monte Cassino, and on to Ortona.

He became a stretcher-bearer, and served on the western front, mostly in the Allied invasion of Belgium, France and Germany, seeing many of his fellow soldiers die and often coming quite close to being hit by artillery bombardment.

As Kennan shows, the judgment of the Allied governments about what was happening in Russia was warped by the obsession of defeating Germany.

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.

With the advent of the interrupter gear the tables were turned on the Allies, with Fokker's planes shooting down many Allied aircraft, leading to what became known as the Fokker Scourge.

Between five and eight thousand Neo-Nazis took part, mourning what they call the " Allied bomb-holocaust ".

Using the German press, which was under Allied control, as well as posters and pamphlets, a program was conducted to acquaint ordinary Germans with what had taken place in the concentration camps.

On 4 September he recalled Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt from retirement, in which condition he had been since Hitler had dismissed him as Wehrmacht Commander-in-Chief West on 2 July, and reinstated him in his former command, replacing Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model, who had taken command just 18 days previously and would henceforth command only Army Group B. Rundstedt immediately began to plan a defence against what Wehrmacht intelligence judged to be 60 Allied divisions at full strength, although Eisenhower in fact possessed only 49 divisions.

On 14 May, German Army Group A burst through the Ardennes and advanced rapidly to the west toward Sedan, then turned northward to the English Channel, in what Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein called the " Sickle Cut " ( known as " Plan Yellow " or the Manstein Plan ), effectively flanking the Allied forces.

bombers ) being lynched by German civilians, soldiers, policemen or paramilitaries in revenge for what Nazi propagandists termed " Allied terror bombing " ( Alliierter Bombenterror ).

For instance, one section of Roosenburg's embroidery shows a crude drawing of a gun to indicate that the prisoners had heard what they thought was Allied gunfire, as well as the names " Nell " and " Joke " ( pronounced " Yoe-kuh ") in Morse code to indicate that she was in solitary confinement, that Nell and Joke were in the two adjacent cells, and that they communicated by tapping Morse code on the walls.

This subsequently became the primary location of the U. S. operations of British Intelligence, British Security Coordination ( BSC ) during the War, with Room 3603 becoming the principal operations center for Allied intelligence, organized by William Stephenson, as well as the office of the future head of what was later to become the Central Intelligence Agency, Allen Welsh Dulles.

However, what happened next completely caught the Allied staffs by surprise.

General Menshikov, aware of the Allied presence, prepared his troops on the banks of the River Alma in an effort to halt the Franco-British advance, but on 20 September he was soundly defeated in what was the first major battle in the Crimea.

Then followed another period on the defense in Lorraine as preparations advanced for what was to be the final Allied offensive of the war.

In response to Allied efforts to fuse the American, French, and British sectors of western Germany into a federal state, American refusal to grant the Soviets war reparations from industrial areas of western Germany, and to a currency reform undertaken by the western powers without Soviet approval, the Soviets blocked ground access to West Berlin on 26 June 1948, in what became known as the " Berlin Blockade ", in the hope of gaining control of the whole of Berlin.

The premiere episode documented what would have happened if the Germans stopped the Allied invasion of France and took over the world.

Later, when she became more comfortable with what she and the POWs were doing, she got into the swing of it and became " Orphan Ann " in a dual homage to " Radio Orphan Annie " and the popular phrase " Orphans of the Pacific " used to describe her audience, the Allied troops.

The need was now pressing, as Germany had declared war on the United States on 11 December 1941, and Galland was keen to build up a force that could withstand the resurgence of the Western Allied Air Forces in preparation for what would become known as the Defence of the Reich campaign.

He soon began agitating against Allied occupation of Germany, as well as what he perceived to be the biased procedures of the Nuremberg tribunal.

In view of the speed of the Allied advance, on 7 September, what was left of the Vichy government was moved from Belfort to the castle of Sigmaringen in Germany.

The big September / October Allied breakthroughs ( north, centre and south ) across the length of the Hindenburg Line-including the Battle of the Argonne Forest-are now lumped together as part of what is generally remembered as the Grand Offensive ( also known as the Hundred Days Offensive ) by the Allies on the Western front.

However, the Second Hungarian Army was present in the region, and together with the Eighth German Army engaged the Allied forces on 5 September in what was to become the Battle of Turda, which lasted until 8 October and resulted in heavy casualties for both sides.

Successes in the North African desert left the Allies in complete control of the Mediterranean's southern shore and allowed the Allied Forces Headquarters to start planning an attack into what Winston Churchill referred to as the " soft underbelly " of Europe.

The Allied forces were eventually successful in driving back Germany, in what turned out to be their last major advance of the war.

At the later stages of the war, what remained of the town was destroyed again by Allied bombings day and night for over six months as part of the Borneo Campaign in 1945, leaving only three buildings standing.