Although used during the Normandy landings, by that point German aircraft were contained by the Allies own air forces and they were largely unneeded.

With Prince Eugene's subsequent success at the Battle of Turin in northern Italy, the Allies had imposed the greatest loss of territory and resources that Louis XIV would suffer during the war.

However, the Western Allies ' air-to-ground aircraft were so greatly feared out of proportion to their actual tactical success, that following the lead up to Operation Overlord German vehicle crews showed reluctance to move en masse during daylight.

With pyrethrum in short supply, DDT was used extensively during World War II by the Allies to control the insect vectors of typhus — nearly eliminating the disease in many parts of Europe.

People of Eindhoven ( during World War II ) watching Allies of World War II | Allied forces entering the city following its liberation from Axis powers | Axis forces on 19 September 1944.

Major air combat during the war in the Pacific began with the entry of the Western Allies following Japan's attack against Pearl Harbor.

World War I enhanced the potential of terror as it was widespread between the Allies and the Central Powers during the conflict.

At the Yalta Conference during World War II, the Allies ( the U. S., Britain, and the Soviet Union ) agreed on dividing a defeated Germany into occupation zones, and on dividing Berlin, the German capital, among the Allied powers as well.

With the invasion of Southern Italy, the Allies restored the authority of the mafia families lost during the Fascist period and used their influence to maintain public order.

The original Jeep vehicle that first appeared as the prototype Bantam BRC became the primary light four-wheel-drive vehicle of the United States Army and Allies during World War II, as well as the postwar period.

* The 2003 novel Fox at the Front by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson depicts Philby selling secrets to the Soviet Union during the alternate Battle of the Bulge where German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel turns on the Nazis and assists the Allies in capturing all of Berlin.

His invention, known as the Polish mine detector, was used by the Allies alongside mechanical methods, to clear the German mine fields during the Second Battle of El Alamein when 500 units were shipped to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army.

Suggesting a moral equivalence between a number of acts carried out by the Allies during the Second World War and the deeds of the Nazis, especially the Final Solution is a common strategy employed by apologists for the Nazis in Germany, such as politicians of the National Democratic Party of Germany.

At the end of World War II during the occupation of Germany, the Allies recovered weapons containing three types of German nerve agents, prompting further research into nerve agents by the former Allies.

The fourth G-series nerve agent, Cyclosarin, although discovered by German scientists studying organophosphates during WWII was seemingly not found by the Allies, but independently rediscovered in 1949.

* Liberty ship transports for the Allies during World War II

Islanders Biuku Gasa ( deceased 2005 ) and Eroni Kumana ( Gizo ) were Allies scouts during the war.

Two test launches were recovered by the Allies: the Bäckebo rocket which landed in Sweden on 13 June 1944 and one recovered by the Polish resistance on 30 May 1944 from Blizna and transported to the UK during Operation Most III.

Though the Allies ' economic and population advantages were largely mitigated during the initial rapid blitzkrieg attacks of Germany and Japan, they became the decisive factor by 1942, after the United States and Soviet Union joined the Allies, as the war largely settled into one of attrition.

The Allies lost 160, 000 airmen and 33, 700 planes during the air war over Europe.

After developing a loathing of both the Communist and Fascist regimes in Europe during the Spanish Civil War, Pujol decided to become a spy for the Allies as a way to do something " for the good of humanity ".

Article 231 of the Treaty ( the ' war guilt ' clause ) declared Germany and its allies responsible for all ' loss and damage ' suffered by the Allies during the war and provided the basis for reparations.

Fiedler was then technical director of Hitler's super-secret `` Reichenberg project '', which remained unknown to the Allies until after the war.

Despite being offered the chance to remain as ruler of Bavaria ( under strict terms of an alliance with Austria ), the Elector left his country and family in order to continue the war against the Allies from the Spanish Netherlands where he still held the post of governor-general.

On the Eastern Front of World War I, where combat did not bog down into trench warfare, German and Russian armies fought a war of maneuver over thousands of miles, giving the German leadership unique experience which the trench-bound Western Allies did not have.

The results were exaggerated, and the Western Allies concluded that the " city-busting " techniques were now a part of the German way in war.

The rest of the Allies, after giving a common ultimatum, declared war a week later.

They quickly gained air superiority over the Allies, who at this stage of the war were often disorganized, under-trained and poorly equipped, and Japanese air power contributed significantly to their successes in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma.

The factory was bombed by the Allies in 1944 and rebuilt in 1946, after the war ended, and included a works for road car production.

The Allies hoped to override Lenin and the Bolsheviks, in order to get Russia back into the war against Germany.

In three day's fighting, the Allies captured more than 2, 000 Axis prisoners of war, mostly from the Italian Brescia ' and Pavia ' Divisions ; the New Zealand division suffered 1, 405 casualties.

The amount of monetary aid ( which was in the form of loans ) received by Germany through the Marshall Plan ( about $ 1. 65 billion in total ) was far overshadowed by the amount the Germans had to pay back as war reparations and by the charges the Allies made on the Germans for the ongoing cost of occupation ( about $ 2. 4 billion per year ).

Between 14 November 1945 and 3 October 1946, the Allies established an International Military Tribunal ( IMT ) to try 22 of 24 major Nazi war criminals and six groups for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In the spring of 1945 Germany itself was invaded from the east by the Soviet Union and from the west by the other Allies respectively ; After Red Army conquered the Reichstag in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered in early May ending the war in Europe.

Germany and its allies were to accept the sole responsibility of the war, in accordance with the War Guilt Clause, and were to pay financial reparations for all loss and damage suffered by the Allies.

Shortly before the end of the war, without the knowledge of Hitler, he attempted to open peace talks with the western Allies.

Because the Allies had indicated that they were going to pursue criminal charges for German war crimes, Hitler tried to gain the loyalty and silence of his subordinates by making them all parties to the planned genocide.

With the end of the war in November 1918, the moribund Ottoman Empire was ready to be carved up amongst the victors, and Greece now expected the Allies to deliver on their promises.

But the Allies did not launch massive assaults and kept a defensive stance: this was called the Phoney War in Britain or Drôle de guerre – the funny sort of war – in France.

Following the war, the Dutch fought Indonesian independence forces after Japan surrendered to the Allies in 1945.

The Soviet Union joined the Allies and despite heavy human and territorial losses in the initial period of war, it stopped the Axis advance in the decisive battles of Moscow and Stalingrad.

* 1942 – World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.

Later that year, Argentina and Turkey severed ties with Germany while Finland, Romania, and Bulgaria all joined the Allies and declared war on the Reich.

The battle was a major turning point in the war for the Allies.