It was the last of several attacks Attack made Action by the Home Fleet during 1944 which sought to damage Damaging or sink `` Tirpitz '' and thereby eliminate Removing the threat it posed Causation to Allied shipping .

The attack Attack was one of a series of strikes Attack against the battleship launched Motion from aircraft carriers between April and August 1944 , and was initiated Process_start after Allied intelligence determined Deciding that the damage inflicted Causation during the Operation Tungsten raid Attack on 3 April had been repaired .

Two Allied fleets set Self_motion sail from Rangoon , with the Royal Navy 's Task Force 11 headed for Penang under Operation Jurist , while the larger British and French fleet sailing on to Singapore under Operation Tiderace. < ref name= '' JAPANESE SIGN THE SURRENDER OF PENANG ABOARD HMS NELSON ( 3/9/1945 ) '' > < /ref > The earlier liberation of Penang was intended to test Testing Japanese intentions as a prelude to the eventual recapture of Singapore and the rest of Malaya .

Meanwhile , the Allied fleet arrived Arriving off Singapore on 4 September and accepted Receiving the surrender of the Japanese forces stationed on the island .

The outnumbered French repelled Defending several Allied assaults Attack on their right flank , but their center and left flank were overcome Conquering and Soult was compelled to retreat Escaping .

After a pause Change_event_time in the campaign Military_operation , the western-most Allied corps surrounded Surrounding and isolated Having_or_lacking_access Bayonne .

Resuming Process_start their eastward drive Motion , the remaining two Allied corps pushed Motion Soult 's army back to Orthez where the French marshal offered Giving battle Hostile_encounter .

The city was abandoned GiveUp on 9 October and Allied forces Hostile_encounter withdrew Escaping to West Flanders .

By November 1914 , most of Belgium was under German occupation Control and Allied naval blockade .

The official NATO operation Attack code name was `` Operation Attack Allied Force '' ; the United States called it `` Operation Attack Noble Anvil '' , while in Yugoslavia , the operation Attack was incorrectly called Name_conferral `` Merciful Angel '' ( / `` Milosrdni anđeo '' ) , as a result of a misunderstanding or mistranslation .

The death Death of Yamamoto reportedly damaged Damaging the morale of Japanese naval personnel , raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the morale of the Allied forces , and was intended as revenge Revenge by U.S. leaders who blamed Judgment_communication Yamamoto for the attack Attack on Pearl Harbor that initiated Process_start the formal state Statement of war between Imperial Japan and the United States .

The quiet of the Phoney War was punctuated Destroying by a few Allied actions .

The Allied discussions about a Scandinavian campaign caused Causation concern in Germany and resulted in the German invasion Attack of Denmark and Norway in April , and the Allied troops previously assembled Come_together for Finland were redirected Motion to Norway instead .

The Allied discussions about a Scandinavian campaign caused Causation concern in Germany and resulted in the German invasion Attack of Denmark and Norway in April , and the Allied troops previously assembled Come_together for Finland were redirected Motion to Norway instead .

The airborne part of the operation was undertaken by the First Allied Airborne Army with the land operation Military_operation by XXX Corps of the British Second Army .

The objective was to create Creating a salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the River Rhine , creating Creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany .

Allied forces would project north from Belgium , through the Netherlands , across the Rhine and consolidate Cause_change_of_strength north of Arnhem on the Dutch/German border , ready GetReady to close Openness the pincer .

The failure of Operation Market Garden to form Coming_to_be a foothold over the Rhine ended Process_end Allied hopes of finishing the war by Christmas 1944 .

In essence , the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Atlantic was a tonnage war Hostile_encounter : the Allied struggle Resolve_problem to supply Supply Britain and the Axis attempt to stem Preventing_or_letting the flow of merchant shipping Sending that enabled Preventing_or_letting Britain to keep Temporary_stay fighting Hostile_encounter .

At its core was the Allied naval blockade Besieging of Germany , announced Expressing_publicly the day after the declaration Expressing_publicly of war Hostile_encounter , and Germany 's subsequent counter-blockade .

From 1942 onward , the Axis also sought to prevent Preventing_or_letting the build-up of Allied supplies Supply and equipment in the British Isles in preparation GetReady for the invasion Attack of occupied Hold Europe .

The Japanese decided Deciding to withdraw Escaping and concede Giving Guadalcanal to Allied forces for several reasons .

All attempts by the IJA to recapture Conquering Henderson Field , the airfield on Guadalcanal in use Using by Allied aircraft , had been repulsed Defending with heavy losses .

On 9 February , Allied forces realized Coming_to_believe that the Japanese were gone Self_motion and declared Expressing_publicly Guadalcanal secure , ending Process_end the six-month campaign for control of the island .

Operation Military_operation Dragoon ( initially Operation Anvil ) was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on 15August 1944 .

The operation was initially planned Arranging to be executed in conjunction with Operation Overlord , the Allied landing in Normandy , but the lack of available resources led to Causation a cancellation of the second landing .

By July 1944 the landing was reconsidered Deciding , as the clogged-up ports in Normandy did not have the capacity to adequately supply Supply the Allied forces Military_operation .

Allied mobile units were able to overtake Change_of_leadership the Germans and partially block Hindering their route at the town of Montélimar .

Army GroupG retreated Escaping further north , pursued Aiming by Allied forces Military_operation .

After meeting with Come_together the Allied units from Operation Overlord , the Allied forces Military_operation were in need of reorganizing and , facing Confronting_problem stiffened German resistance , the offensive was halted Process_end on 14September .

After meeting with Come_together the Allied units from Operation Overlord , the Allied forces Military_operation were in need of reorganizing and , facing Confronting_problem stiffened German resistance , the offensive was halted Process_end on 14September .

It was the first of the World War II conferences Social_event of the `` Big Three '' Allied leaders ( the Soviet Union , the United States , and the United Kingdom ) .

The fighting Hostile_encounter has been divided into five stages , an encounter battle Hostile_encounter from 19 to 21 October , the Battle Hostile_encounter of Langemarck from 21 to 24 October , the battles Hostile_encounter at La Bassée and Armentières to 2 November , coincident with more Allied Cause_to_amalgamate attacks Attack at Ypres and the Battle Hostile_encounter of Gheluvelt a fourth phase with the last big German offensive , which culminated Process_end at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Nonne Bosschen on 11 November , then local operations Military_operation which faded Change out in late November .

Falkenhayn intended to detach Removing Russia or France from the Allied coalition Cause_to_amalgamate by diplomatic as well as military action .

The day and night air battles Hostile_encounter over Germany during the war Hostile_encounter involved Participation thousands of aircraft , units and aerial engagements to counter Hostile_encounter the Allied strategic bombing Attack campaign .

In the early years , the `` Luftwaffe '' was able to inflict Causation a string of defeats Conquering on Allied strategic air forces .

The campaign was one of the longest in the history of aerial warfare Hostile_encounter and with the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Atlantic and the Allied Blockade of Germany was the longest of the war .

From January 1942 to April 1943 , German arms industry grew Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by an average of 5.5 % monthly , and by summer 1943 , the systematic attack Attack against German industry by Allied bombers , brought Bringing the overall armament production Manufacturing — during the period of May 1943 to March 1944 — to a complete halt Process_end .

By this time , the Allied armies had reached Arriving the German border and the strategic campaign became Becoming fused Connect with the tactical battles over the front .

Operation Cycle is the name of the evacuation of Allied troops from Le Havre , in the Pays de Caux of Upper Normandy from 1940 , towards the end of the Battle of France , during the Second World War .

The operation was preceded Process_start by the better known rescue of and French soldiers from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo On 20 May , the Germans had captured Conquering Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme and cut off Hindering the main Allied armies in the north .

With an Allied withdrawal to Le Havre cut off , the Highlanders and the French retreated Escaping to St Valery-en-Caux , where from and soldiers were rescued Rescuing by the Navy .

Glimmer and Taxable played on the German belief Coming_to_believe , amplified Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by Allied Cause_to_amalgamate deception efforts over the preceding months , that the main invasion force would land Arriving in the Calais region .

Operations Military_operation Taxable , Glimmer and Big Drum were tactical military deceptions conducted Action on 6 June 1944 in support Supporting of the Allied landings Self_motion in Normandy .

The United States began Process_start to aid China by airlifting Bringing material over the Himalayas after the Allied defeat Conquering in Burma that closed the Burma Road .

Despite continuing to occupy part of China 's territory , Japan eventually surrendered Surrendering on September 2 , 1945 , to Allied forces following the atomic bombings Attack of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion Attack of Japanese-held Manchuria .

The operation was launched Process_start on 25 May 1944 , and was aimed Aiming at capturing Conquering or killing Killing the Partisan leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito and destroying Destroying the headquarters , support Supporting facilities and co-located Allied military missions .

Tito , his principal headquarters staff and the Allied military personnel escaped Escaping , despite their presence in Drvar at the time of the airborne assault .

Allied forces first advanced Cause_to_make_progress into Uruguayan territory , defeating Conquering Rosas ' Blanco party supporters led by Manuel Oribe .

Afterwards , the Allied army was divided , with the main arm advancing Cause_to_make_progress by land to engage Participation Rosas ' main defenses and the other launching Process_start a seaborne assault directed at Buenos Aires .