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 1944
February 15 - Battle of Monte Cassino - the monastery atop Monte Cassino is destroyed by Allied bombing.
March 15 - Battle of Monte Cassino - Allied aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.
Largest battle ever to be fought in the Nordic countries.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1944.html   (3473 words)

  
 ipedia.com: World War II Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) evacuated Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo, leaving their heavy equipment behind, and the French government made a peace, which left the Germans in control of the North and the Vichy government in charge of the South.
Moscow was again spared, and at the end of 1942 the Soviets succeeded in smashing the Axis' front lines in the south, and surrounding the German 6th Army in the Battle of Stalingrad (Hero City).
In late August and early September, while battle raged on Guadalacanal, Australian and US forces fought off a Japanese amphibious attack on the eastern tip of New Guinea at Milne Bay, the first conclusive defeat suffered by Japanese land forces.
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 Bambooweb: World War II
Poland managed to rebuild its armies in France and Britain and remained an important combatant throughout the entire war.
Second Battle of Kharkov but their offensive at the massive Battle of Kursk (July 1943) was so unsuccessful that the Red Army were able to counterattack and regain the ground previously lost.
In May 1942, the Allied navies in the Battle of the Coral Sea thwarted a Japanese naval attack on Port Moresby,
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