Beyond that, Allied disagreement about military intervention in Laos -- despite warnings that they might do so -- allowed Moscow to carry out with impunity a series of military and diplomatic moves that greatly strengthened the pro-Communist forces.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1944 – Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1, 100 people.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon – Allied forces land in southern France.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia ( currently known as Jayapura ) area of New Guinea.

When D-Day arrived, they had made enough penicillin to treat all the wounded Allied forces.

* 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.

In 1944 the Brazilian Air Force joined Allied forces in Italy and operated there for about seven months, this was the FAB baptism in a real conflict.

He was in command of all Allied ground forces during Operation Overlord from the initial landings until after the Battle of Normandy.

Marlborough took control of the left arm of the Allied forces including the attacks on Blenheim and Oberglauheim, whilst Eugene commanded the right including the attacks on Lutzingen.

The Allied commanders agreed that Marlborough would command 36, 000 troops and attack Tallard's force of 33, 000 on the left ( including capturing the village of Blenheim ), whilst Eugene, commanding 16, 000 men would attack the Elector and Marsin's combined forces of 23, 000 troops on the right wing ; if this attack was pressed hard the Elector and Marsin would have no troops to send to aid Tallard on their right.

On the Allied right, Eugene's Prussian and Danish forces were desperately fighting the numerically superior forces of the Elector and Marsin.

If Holstein-Beck's Dutch column were destroyed, the Allied army would be split in two: Eugene's wing would be isolated from Marlborough's, passing the initiative to the Franco-Bavarian forces now engaged across the whole plain.

While Allied forces in 1940 lacked the experience to successfully develop these strategies, resulting in France's capitulation with heavy losses, they characterized later Allied operations.

The armoured and motorized forces were halted, by Hitler, outside the port city of Dunkirk, which was being used to evacuate the Allied forces.

Allied forces deployed to the flanks of the German penetration, and as soon as the skies cleared, Allied aircraft were again able to attack motorized columns.

* Brewster Buffalo, or Brewster F2A, a U. S. fighter plane which saw extensive service with both Allied and Axis air forces during World War II

* Buffalo or Water Buffalo, British designation for Landing Vehicle Tracked, an amphibious vehicle used by Allied forces during World War II

Thus, a number of Allied soldiers received the Bronze Star Medal in World War II, as well as U. N. soldiers in the Korean War, Vietnamese and allied forces in the Vietnam War, and coalition forces in recent military operations such as the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War.

One of Zaharoff ’ s tasks during the war was to ensure that Greece became involved in the war on the Allied side, helping to reinforce the eastern front.

From September, the Belgian army was involved in the Allied offensive until the final victory of November 11, 1918.

He was active in anti-Nazi propaganda and reputedly involved with British or Allied Intelligence, which may have led to his death in 1943 when his airliner was shot down over the sea, sparking conspiracy theories regarding his death.

Historians still debate how effective the French Résistance was militarily, but for instance the neutralization of the Maquis du Vercors alone involved the commitment of over 10, 000 German troops within the theater, with several more thousands held in reserve, in a period when the Allied invasion was breaking out of Normandy and French Operation Jedburgh commandos were being dropped nearby to the south to prepare for the Allied landing in Provence.

Their sacrifice may have helped Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied forces at Dunkirk, as 10th Panzer would certainly have been involved on the Dunkirk perimeter had it not been busy at Calais.

The number of actual Allied casualties involved was relatively small compared with the intensive air fighting of 1917-18.

Germany was protective of the synchronizer system, instructing pilots not to venture over enemy territory in case they were forced down and the secret revealed, but the basic principles involved were already common knowledge, and by the middle of 1916 several Allied synchronizer gears were already available in quantity.

The Allied plan involved bypassing Rabaul by surrounding it with air and naval bases on surrounding islands and on New Britain itself.

Japan was also involved in the post-war Allied intervention in Russia and was the last Allied power to withdraw ( doing so in 1925 ).

Included in these programs is Play Golf America, instigated in 2004 with the help of the Allied Associations ( LPGA, National Golf Course Owners Association, PGA Tour, USGA, and others involved in the annual Golf 20 / 20 Conference ).

On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that " additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as ' War Crimes ' evidence.

Suharto was involved in fighting against Allied troops around Magelang and Semarang, and was subsequently appointed head of a brigade as lieutenant-colonel, having earned respect as a field commander.

The Second Battle of Mindoro ( January to August 1945 ) during the Second World War also involved the Philippine Commonwealth and Allied military forces, the local Filipino soldiers of the 4th, 5th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 45th, 46th and 47th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and 4th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary, as well as the local guerrilla resistance fighters and the U. S. and Australian troops.

Freyberg was involved in defeat in the Battle of Greece, defeated again as the Allied commander in the Battle of Crete and performed successfully commanding the New Zealand division in the North African, including the Battle of El Alamein.

The victorious wartime Allied powers ( principally the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and France ) negotiated the details of treaties with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland ( see the List of countries involved in World War II ).

From 28-31 May 1940, an event known as the Siege of Lille involved the remaining 40, 000 men of the once-formidable French First Army in a delaying action against seven German divisions, including three armoured divisions, which were attempting to cut off and destroy the Allied armies at Dunkirk.

The failure of this operation, and an acute supply problem brought about by the long distances involved in the rapid drive through France, brought an end to the headlong Allied race toward Berlin.

The Allied forces involved came from the U. S Army ′ s II Corps commanded by Major General Lloyd Fredendall, and the British 6th Armoured Division commanded by Major-General Charles Keightley, which were part of the British 1st Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower began restructuring the Allied command, creating a new headquarters ( 18th Army Group, under General Sir Harold Alexander ), to tighten the operational control of the corps and armies of the three Allied nations involved and improve their coordination ( there having been significant friction during the previous month ′ s operations ).

That year Allied Command Europe carried out Operation Counter Punch, which involved AFCENT forces on the European mainland, and two other major military exercises in September 1957.

The Allied arrangement involved compensation for this loss via the incorporation of formerly German-held areas ( the Recovered Territories ) into Poland.

In early 1943, the unit was sent to Gibraltar before moving to North Africa in April from where they were involved in the Allied invasion of Sicily and operations in Italy prior to being withdrawn to Britain to prepare for Operation Overlord.