Allied Naval

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Harold Burrough - World War II
... Burrough would serve on the Naval Staff for two years until 1942 ... escort force for Operation Pedestal, and subsequently placed in command of Allied naval forces in the assault on Algiers during Operation Torch, as well as ... Mediterranean Approaches in 1943, Burrough succeeded Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay as Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Expeditionary Force (ANXF), following Ramsay’s death after an aircraft accident ...
List Of World War II Military Operations - South West, South, and South East Asia
... C (1942) — major Japanese naval incursion into Indian Ocean Canned (1944) — search and destroy operation for German supply tanker Capital (1943) — Allied capture of northern Burma ... for Dracula Diplomat (1944) — Allied exercise in preparation for joint operations against the Japanese Dukedom (1945) — British search and destroy operation for Japanese cruiser Haguro Exporter (1941 ... on Akyab island Thursday (1944) — Chindits operation in Burma Transom (1944) — Allied naval air raid on Surabaya, Java Turret (1945) — Anglo-Indian landings and ...

Famous quotes containing the words naval and/or allied:

    “Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory.... From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
    —Winston Churchill (1874–1965)