Although the details have not been precisely established, casualty figures were high for both sides: the French amounting to at least 7, 000 killed and wounded ; the Allies are estimated as 10, 000 to 12, 000.

German casualties in France had been high-Field Marshal Walter Model estimated that his 74 divisions had the actual strength of just 25-but the Western Allies ' logistical problems gave the Germans a respite, which they used to begin rebuilding their strength.

He estimated the delay had raised the cost of the war to the Allies by $ 15 billion, and that it led to the unnecessary loss of 500, 000 lives.

The Allies removed an estimated 15, 000 unexploded mines from dunes by Pouppeville, after the initial invasion.

Total German losses were estimated to be 30, 000 on 8 August, while the Allies had suffered about 6, 500 killed, wounded and missing.

The Irish State was officially neutral during World War II, known within the Republic of Ireland as " The Emergency " although it is estimated that about 100, 000 men from Ireland took part on the side of the Allies, while a handful may have taken the part of their opponents.

The orderly estimated that 20 % of the 120 French general officers favored cooperation with Germany ( with many freed to join the Vichy government ), 30 % favored the Allies, and 50 % were neutral.

Mr. Kennedy told Moscow he would give his answer by May 20 after consultation with the Allies.

* 1944 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.

Aachen was the first German city to be captured by the Allies.

As the amount of German armour encountered by the Allies decreased, especially in Italy, a number of American tank destroyer units were used in the assault gun role for infantry support.

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

The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from 24 June 1948 to 11 May 1949.

There was an ever-present danger that some ill-considered military or other action by the Allies might alert the enemy to the possibility that their codes were being broken.

Allied assault on the Schellenberg – taken by coup de main on 2 July – provided the Allies with an excellent river crossing.

The last thing Tallard expected that morning was to be attacked by the Allies – deceived by intelligence gathered from prisoners taken by de Silly the previous day, and assured in their strong natural position, Tallard and his colleagues were convinced that Marlborough and Eugene were about to retreat north-eastwards towards Nördlingen.

The Marquis de Gruignan attempted a counter-attack, but he was easily brushed aside by the triumphant Allies.

Although Louis XIV wanted peace he wanted it on reasonable terms ; for that, he needed victory in the field and to convince the Allies that his resources were by no means exhausted.

As news spread of the Allies ’ triumph, the Prussians, Hessians and Hanoverian contingents, long delayed by their respective rulers, eagerly joined the pursuit of the broken French and Bavarian forces.

There is little doubt that the hilly, heavily wooded Ardennes could have been relatively easily defended by the Allies, even against the bulk of the German armoured units.

Félix Éboué in a contemporary World War II cartoonDuring World War II, Chad was the first French colony to rejoin the Allies ( August 26, 1940 ), after the defeat of France by Germany.

After World War I, the city was occupied ( 1918 – 23 ) by the Allies.

A notable example of this type of armoured bridging vehicle was the Churchill Ark used by the Allies in the Second World War.

The Germans launched a surprise counter offensive in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 which was turned back in early 1945 by the Allies after Eisenhower repositioned his armies and improved weather allowed the Air Force to engage.

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.

The Allies had been amply resupplied by the United States, which also had fresh armies ready for combat, but the UK and France were too war-weary to contemplate an invasion of Germany with its unknown consequences.

Almost all Germans who returned or remained were expelled as the city was annexed by the Soviet Union and ceded to Poland in spring 1945, a decision by Stalin with full consent of the western Allies in the Potsdam Conference.

On November 11, 1918, the representatives of the newly formed Weimar Republic signed an armistice with the Allies which would end World War I.

On 26 February 1815, Napoleon abandoned Elba for France, reviving the French Empire for a Hundred Days ; the Allies declared an end to Napoleon's sovereignty over Elba on 25 March 1815, and on 31 March 1815 Elba was ceded to the restored Grand Duchy of Tuscany by the Congress of Vienna.

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

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.

: The Allies have told me that dismantling would be stopped only if I satisfy the Allied desire for security, does the Socialist Party want dismantling to go on to the bitter end?

Even while the Marshall Plan was being implemented, the dismantling of German industry continued, and in 1949 Konrad Adenauer wrote to the Allies requesting that it end, citing the inherent contradiction between encouraging industrial growth and removing factories and also the unpopularity of the policy.

Tensions between the Western Allies and the communist Eastern allies accelerated after the end of World War II, resulting in the Cold War between the Soviet-led communist East and the American-led capitalist West.

The Allies did not learn of these agents until shells filled with them were captured towards the end of the war.

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 Empire lasted until the end of the First World War, when it was defeated by the Allies and was succeeded by the modern Republic of Turkey in 1923.

Operation Deadlight was the code name for the scuttling of U-boats surrendered to the Allies after the defeat of Germany near the end of World War II.

#: Now that hostilities in Europe were at an end the Western Allies should have a greater input into the Control Commissions of Central and Eastern Europe, the Annex to this agreement included detailed changes to the workings of the Hungarian Control Commission.

When the city was divided into sectors by the occupying Allies at the end of the war, the square found itself on the boundary between the American, British and Soviet sectors.

The end of the war led to the dissolution of the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation by the Allies of Czechoslovakia and the union of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbia as new states.

Whilst the battle did not end the Persian invasion, it effectively ensured that all Greece would not be conquered, and allowed the Allies to go on the offensive in 479 BC.

The port city was also the main objective of German armies in December ; the inability of the Allies to end the war in 1944 meant that Allied troops had to winter in Belgium, during which time the Ardennes Offensive was launched by the Germans, resulting in heavy fighting on Belgian soil that lasted into 1945.

The Kingdom of Italy surrendered to the Western Allies in 1943, marking the beginning of the end for the Tripartite Pact.

At the end of August the Allies failed again to defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Dresden.

To that end, as the Allies began their post-war denazification efforts, the Psychological Warfare Division ( PWD ) of SHAEF ( Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ) undertook a psychological propaganda campaign for the purpose of developing a German sense of collective responsibility.

To that end, Hill was a major figure in the effort launched by J. P. Morgan to float the Anglo-French Bond drive of 1915, which allowed the Allies to purchase much-needed foodstuffs and other supplies.

Comet was replaced by a more ambitious plan to bypass the Siegfried Line by hooking around its northern end, allowing the Allies to cross the Rhine with large forces and trap the German Fifteenth Army between Arnhem and the shores of the IJsselmeer: Operation Market Garden.

The King notified King George VI by telegram on 25 May 1940 that Belgian forces were being crushed, saying " assistance which we give to the Allies will come to an end if our Army is surrounded ".

The Japanese had reached the high-water mark of their conquests in the Pacific, and Guadalcanal marked the transition by the Allies from defensive operations to the strategic offensive in that theatre and the beginning of offensive operations, including the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and Central Pacific campaigns, that resulted in Japan's eventual surrender and the end of World War II.

The entrance of the Allies into Paris on 7 July brought a rapid end to his supporters ' wishes.