< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

Withdrawing by Troops back down the road, they moved back to the landing craft and by 14. 45 they had re-embarked, taking a number of German prisoners and Norwegian volunteers with them.

1, 2 and 3 Troops under the command of Peter Young, carried out a landing at Scoglio Imbiancato unopposed after a series of navigational delays meant that they landed later than planned.

On 8 September, two Troops from No. 3 Commando took part in a dawn landing at San Venere as part of the main invasion, helping to clear the quay.

4 and 5 Troops under command of the second-in-command, Major John Pooley, carried out an attack on the Merville battery near the coast where there were still guns firing on the landing beaches.

Then they marked the landing spot for the rest of the commando, No. 1 and No. 2 Troops were the next to land.

Troops of the covering force and paratrooper s practise their withdrawal to the landing craft during training in Britain.

Into the Jaws of Death: Troops from the U. S. 1st Division landing on Omaha beach as part of the Allied military campaign to free France from the stranglehold of Nazi Germany.

Troops trained for the D-Day landing on the neighboring cliffs.

Troops were ferried to two landing zones by three helicopters squadrons: USMC HMM-364 Squadron, 117th and 119th squadron of US Army 52nd Aviation Battalion.

Troops destined for each of the landing beaches left from Portsmouth aboard vessels such as the armed merchant cruisers HMCS Prince Henry and HMCS Prince David, escorted by the Canadian destroyers HMCS Algonquin and Sioux.

Troops and landing craft crews training at HMAS Assault at Port Stephens

Troops of the United States Army, supported by the United States Navy and U. S. Army Air Forces ( USAAF ), made an amphibious landing on Mindoro and defeated Imperial Japanese Army ( IJA ) forces there.

They found it at the junction between Troops H and G, and prepared to counterattack.

An Eastwind EQ2050 on display at the China People's Revolution Military Museum | People's Revolution Military Museum of China in August 2007, during the ' Our Troops towards the Sky ' exhibition.

Troops of the SS Leibstandarte at a Nazi procession in 1939.

As with the Levantine Special Troops, French officers held the top posts, but as Syrian independence approached, the ranks below major were gradually filled by Syrian officers who had graduated from the Military Academy at Homs, which had been established by the French during the 1930s.

* October 18 – Troops under Colonel Robert E. Lee overpower Brown at the Federal arsenal.

Troops of Rodolfo Herrero attack him at night and shoot him.

* June 3 – Mexican Revolution: Troops of Obregon and Villa clash at León: Obregon loses his right arm in grenade attack but Villa is decisively defeated.

The Victory of Montcalm's Troops at Carillon by Henry Alexander Ogden.

In April 1864 after his release he was appointed colonel of the 17th Regiment of U. S. Colored Troops and led the regiment at the Battle of Nashville.

* Polish Troops in Norway, a photographic record of the campaign at Narvik, published for the Polish Ministry of Information by M. I. Kolin ( Publishers ) Ltd., London July 1943.

The Speech to the Troops at Tilbury was delivered on 9 August Old Style, 19 August New Style 1588 by Queen Elizabeth I of England to the land forces earlier assembled at Tilbury in Essex in preparation of repelling the expected invasion by the Spanish Armada.

Troops frequently wintered at Nicomedia.

Between December 25, 1979, and February 15, 1989, a total of 620, 000 soldiers served with the forces in Afghanistan ( though there were only 80, 000 – 104, 000 serving at one time ): 525, 000 in the Army, 90, 000 with border troops and other KGB sub-units, 5, 000 in independent formations of MVD Internal Troops, and police forces.

Thomas Eston Hemings enlisted in the United States Colored Troops ( USCT ); captured, he spent time at the Andersonville POW camp and died in a POW camp in Meridian, Mississippi.

Troops were formed at schools and churches in Greensboro, Raleigh, Burlington, Durham, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, and other communities.

Made famous by Baroness Frederika Riedesel in her Letters and Journals relating to the War of the American Revolution and the Capture of the German Troops at Saratoga.

Letters and Journals relating to the War of the American Revolution, and the Capture of the German Troops at Saratoga, by Mrs. General Riedesel.

Troops and supplies for this station came by the La Bahia Road, marking out the route known as the Atascosito Road, the oldest known road crossing the Trinity River in this area at a point about three miles north of the present town of Liberty.

" An Oggy " as it is termed within Troops and Units is usually used at Scouting events and as a way of expressing thanks to those within and outside Scouting.

The former 1st Regiment of Infantry was reconstituted 16 July 1919 in the New Mexico National Guard as a separate squadron of cavalry and organized with Troops A and B at Albuquerque and Carlsbad, respectively.

Inspecting the Troops at Boulogne, 15 August 1804

" Show Me the Way " was written by DeYoung and peaked at # 3, due to the Gulf War Troops adopting the song as an anthem.

Bagram was also the initial staging point for the invading Soviet forces at the beginning of the conflict, with elements of two Soviet Airborne Troops ' divisions being deployed there.

As Tobruk fell it was decided to have XIII Corps answerable directly to Wavell at HQ Middle East Command, removing HQ British Troops Egypt from the chain of command.

Troops arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah in June 1858.

This name was chosen because of its proximity to Soldier Springs, which were thought to have been used by U. S. Troops originally sent to Utah to quell a supposed Mormon uprising, in an incident known as the Utah War.

Canadian Troops land at ' Nan White ' Beach at Bernières-sur-Mer

Troops from X Beach joined with those from W Beach to capture Hill 114 later in the morning.

At the 6th of June 1944 (" D-Day "), Canadian Troops landed at Juno Beach and suffered heavy losses.