* 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

After the Allied landings at Normandy, Germany made attempts to overwhelm the landing force with armoured attacks, but these failed for lack of co-ordination and Allied air superiority.

On 6 June 1944 the Allies landed in Normandy ; on 15 August Allied forces landing in Provence included 260, 000 men of the French First Army.

D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155, 000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.

As part of a Navy competition, prototypes for a prefabricated " heavy landing bridge " or jetty ( similar in function to later Allied Mulberry Harbours ) were designed and built by Krupp Stahlbau and Dortmunder Union and successfully overwintered in the North Sea in 1941-42.

* 1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

It was postmarked before the landing, but due to delays deliberately introduced by the British authorities the information did not reach the Germans until after the Allied troops were ashore.

* June 6 – WWII – Battle of Normandy: Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, commences with the landing of 155, 000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.

* April 25 – WWI: Start of the Gallipoli Campaign ( lasting until January 1916 ): Landing at Anzac Cove by Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and landing at Cape Helles by British and French troops to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.

* August 6 – WWI – Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

* Omaha Beach, the Allied code name for one of the June 6, 1944, Battle of Normandy landing sites

Nice was also heavily bombarded by the American aviation in preparation for the Allied landing in Provence ( 1000 dead or wounded and more than 5600 people homeless ) and famine ensued in the course of the summer of 1944.

During September 1943 he commanded the 12th Anti-Aircraft Brigade during the landing of Allied Forces at Salerno, Italy, Operation Avalanche.

The Memorial Museum to the Landings in Provence ( Mémorial du débarquement de Provence ) is located on the summit of Mount Faron, this small museum, opened in 1964 by President Charles De Gaulle, commemorates the Allied landing in Provence in August 1944 with photos, weapons and models.

* 1944: Cousteau's first aqualung is destroyed by a mis-aimed artillery shell in an Allied landing on the French Riviera: that left two.

During the landing operations on August 7 and August 8, Japanese naval aircraft based at Rabaul, under the command of Sadayoshi Yamada, attacked the Allied amphibious forces several times, setting afire the transport USS George F. Elliot ( which sank two days later ) and heavily damaging the destroyer.

General Bradley reviewing Allied troops in England training for D-Day, promised the soldiers that the Germans on the beach would be blasted with naval gunfire prior to the landing and that: " You men should consider yourself lucky.

Montgomery, commanding the Allied landing forces, knew that the crucial aspect of any invasion was the ability to enlarge a beachhead into a full front.

However, he survives the crash landing, steals a German biplane, and heads for the Allied lines.

The Allied landing at Salerno ( September 1943 ).

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.

On 15 August 1944, he participated in the Allied Forces ’ landing in Provence, France, in Operation Dragoon and fought in southern France and in Germany in early 1945 before Nazi Germany was toppled.

The subsequent Allied withdrawal meant an end to the idea of defeating the Ottoman Empire quickly.

Notable was the service of the Polish Air Force, not only in the Allied victory in the Battle of Britain but also the subsequent war in the air.

Eye of the Needle is a novel ( and subsequent movie ) about a Nazi spy figuring out the Allied deception and racing to let the German leadership know.

In a subsequent book, Crimes And Mercies ( 1997 ), Bacque claimed that Allied policies ( particularly Soviet policies ) led to the premature deaths of 5. 7 million German civilians, 2. 5 million ethnic German refugees from Eastern Europe and 1. 1 million German P. O. W. s due to Allied starvation and expulsion policies in the five years following World War II.

The victorious Allied Powers were determined to ensure that there could be no repetition of the French Revolution, and Napoleon's subsequent attempt to export it to the rest of Europe.

Though the Italians were initially repulsed, subsequent German intervention drove 57, 000 Allied troops from the mainland.

However the Allied pause at the Dutch border gave the Germans time to regroup and reorganise, although it would make subsequent attempts to clarify the exact German forces opposing the Allies extremely difficult.

The subsequent Allied bombing raids resulted in the town being liberated once more in January 1945, but left much of the town destroyed, and 116 residents dead.

Many Americans argued for an immediate invasion of France, while the British, as well as General Dwight D. Eisenhower, argued that the island of Sardinia was the best subsequent target of the Allied troops.

The German High Command concluded there was a greater concentration of Allied forces in the eastern Mediterranean than was the case and held to this assessment, making subsequent deceptions more credible.

This spirit was seen in Germany's admission to the League of Nations, the international organization established under the Versailles treaty to promote world peace and co-operation, and in the subsequent withdrawal ( completed in June 1930 ) of Allied troops from Germany's western Rhineland.

But since its ideas permeated parts of the American administration, especially Morgenthau's Treasury, it did influence subsequent American and Allied planning, most notably:

Algeria provided a base for the subsequent Allied campaign in Tunisia.

and the development of German Panzer Corps doctrine in World War II ), Infantry and Air Support ( Combined Arms ) and it served as a blueprint for all subsequent Allied attacks using " Tanks ".

The first choice for commander in Europe was U. S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower, as he had successfully directed the Allied landings and subsequent march into Germany during World War II, amid many inter-Allied controversies over the proper conduct of the campaign in the western theatre.

No subsequent city raid shook Germany as did that on Hamburg ; documents show that German officials were thoroughly alarmed, and there is some indication from later Allied interrogations of Nazi officials that Hitler stated that further raids of similar weight would force Germany out of the war.

Canadian air force personnel also provided close support to Allied forces during the Battle of Normandy and subsequent land campaigns in Europe.

# the First Allied Airborne Army, including two U. S. airborne divisions ( the 101st and 82nd ), was deployed during Operation Market Garden and subsequent holding actions ;

In the subsequent Battle of the Aisne, the Allied forces were unable to push through the German line, and the fighting quickly degenerated into a stalemate ; neither side was willing to give ground, and both started to develop fortified systems of trenches.

Much of Ikebukuro was destroyed in Allied air raids and the subsequent fires that broke out in the city, but miraculously, the thick, earthen-walled warehouse which he used as his studio was spared, and still stands to this day beside the campus of Rikkyo University.

The bombardment against Allied positions began at 0410 and the subsequent infantry attack displaced Portuguese forces by 0800, exposing the left flank of the 165th.

As a result of the Japanese occupation and subsequent Allied invasion there are a number of wartime relics in the town, most notably a large gun sitting above a bunker adjacent to the Harbour Road.

In his subsequent dispatch to the Emperor, Soult claimed that he had only at that point learned that Blake had joined with Beresford and he faced a much larger Allied force than expected.