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War against Germany - Poland - Crete - Market Garden - Overlord - North Africa

Eastern Front - Stalingrad

War against Japan - Guadalcanal - Iwo Jima - Midway - New Guinea - Okinawa - Operation Downfall - Pearl Harbor - Peleliu - Solomon Islands - Tarawa

War against Germany

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  RAF Silk Escape Map, Sheet C, France & Germany
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  RAF Silk Escape Map, Sheet D, SE France, SW Germany, Belgian-German Border
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  Key to RAF Silk Escape Map, Sheet D
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  Key to RAF Silk Escape Map, Sheet C
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  Dieppe: Map of the Channel
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  Dieppe: The Plan
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  Retreat to Dunkirk, Evening of 25 May 1940
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  Norwegian Campaign, British and German Naval Movements 7-9 April 1940

Poland

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  Poland in 1933
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  German Army Deployment, 1 September 1939
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  Opposing Forces and German Plan for invasion of Poland, 1939
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  Operations in Poland, 1-14 September 1939
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  Operations in Poland, 15-22 September 1939
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  Occupation of Poland, 1939

Crete

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  Crete, battle of : Allied dispositions 19 May 1941
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  Crete, battle of: 5th Bridage Area, 19 May 1941
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  Crete, battle of: The German Landings at Maleme, 20 May 1941
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  Crete, battle of: The German Landing in Prison Valley, 20 May 1941
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  Crete, battle of: German landings around Rethymnon, 20 May 1941
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  Crete, battle of: German landings at Heraklion, 20 May 1941
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  Crete, battle of: The Counterattack Fails, 21-22 May 1941

Operation Market Garden

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  Market Garden: The Battleground
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  Market Garden: The Plan
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  Market Garden: US 101st Airborne Drop Zones, 17 September 1944
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  Market Garden: US 82nd Airborne Division Drop Zones - 17 September 1944
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  Market Garden: British 1st Airborne Division, 17-21 September 1944
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  Market Garden: Positions of 2nd Parachute Btn and elements of 1st Parachute Bde 17-21 September 1944
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  Market Garden: British 1st Airborne Division Perimeter, Oosterbeek, 20-26 September 1944

Operation Overlord

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  Map showing the D-Day Beaches
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  D-Day beachheads at midnight, 6-7 June 1944
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  British 2nd Army on D-Day
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  The Omaha Beach Area
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  German defences and American plans, Omaha Beach
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  Actual Landing Zones, Omaha Beach
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  Omaha Beach at Noon, 6 June 1944
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  Omaha Beach at Midnight, 6-7 June 1944
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  Utah Beach on D-Day
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  Juno Beach on D-Day
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  Gold Beach on D-Day
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  Sword Beach on D-Day
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  Inner Harbour of Cherbourg, 1944

North Africa

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  North African Campaign, 1940-1942
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  Compass, Operation: 1940-41
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  North African Theatre

Eastern Front

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  Berlin 1945: Theatres of Operation
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  Berlin: The Initial Soviet Drive, 16-18 April 1945
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  Berlin: Breakout and Encirclement, 18-25 April 1945
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  Berlin: The Stop Lines
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  Berlin: The Soviets advance into the city
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  Berlin: Battle for the Reichstag, 30 April-2 May 1945

Stalingrad

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  Stalingrad: The Germans advance into the Caucasus
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  Stalingrad: Soviet Staff Map 1941
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  Stalingrad: The German advance towards the city
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  Stalingrad: German Advance into the City
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  Stalingrad: 14-19 September 1942
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  Stalingrad: 13 September-19 November 1942
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  Stalingrad: Red Army Wire Communications
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  Stalingrad: Operation Uranus, 19 November-24 December 1942
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  Stalingrad: The German Relief Effort, December 1942
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  Stalingrad: German Positions in the pocket, 25 November 1942
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  Stalingrad: Operations Uranus and Little Saturn
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  Stalingrad: January-March 1943

War against Japan

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  Anguar, battle of: Map of the battle
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  Makin: Map of the Atoll
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  Makin: The Initial Assault, 20 November 1943
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  Makin: The First Night, 20/21 November 1943
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  Makin: The Advance on the Second Day, 21 November 1943
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  Makin: The Final Push: The Advance to the Eastern End, 22-23 November 1943
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  Pacific Theatre: Pre War
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  Pacific Theatre: Japanese Conquests

Guadalcanal

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  Guadalcanal, US landings on Florida, Tulagi, Tanambogo and Gavutu Islands, 7 August 1942
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  Guadalcanal, Operations in August and September 1942
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  Guadalcanal, Third Battle of the Matanikau River, 24-27 September
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  Guadalcanal, Battle of the Tenaru River, 20-21 August 1942
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  Guadalcanal, The battle for 'Bloody Ridge', 12-14 September 1942
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  Guadalcanal, The US Offensive Opens, January 1943

Iwo Jima

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  Iwo Jima Map 1: Geographical Layout

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  Iwo Jima Map 2: American Landing Zones

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  Iwo Jima Map 3: D-Day

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  Iwo Jima Map 4: D-Day+5

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  Iwo Jima Map 5: D-Day+8

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  Iwo Jima Map 6: D-Day+16

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  Iwo Jima Map 7: D-Day+19

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  Iwo Jima Map 8: D-Day+26

Midway

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  Midway: The Fleets approach Midway
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  Midway: Overall Operations on 4 June
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  Midway: US Attacks on the Japanese Carriers, 09.20 - 10.28 (5 June)

New Guinea

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  Allied plan for attack on Buna-Gona position
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  Battle of Buna
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  Kokoda Trail - The Japanese advance
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  Kokoda Trail - The Australian advance
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  Map of Gona-Buna area, Papua
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  Map showing Kokoda Trail, Papua
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  New Guinea during the Second World War

Okinawa

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  Okinawa: The Ryukyu Islands
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  Okinawa: Island of Okinawa
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  Okinawa: The Plan of Attack
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  Okinawa: The Okinawa Island Group
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  Okinawa: Southern Okinawa

Operation Downfall

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  Downfall, Operation: Map 1: Japanese Campaign Plan and Troop Dispositions, November 1941

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  Downfall, Operation: Map 2: The Atomic Bomb Missions, August 1945

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  Downfall, Operation: Map 3: Allied Advance on Japan, 1941-45

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  Downfall, Operation: Map 4: Kyushu

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  Downfall, Operation: Map 5: Japanese Disposition on Kyushu, August 1945

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  Downfall, Operation: Map 6: Allied Deception Plans

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  Downfall, Operation: Map 7: Allied plans of Assault against Kyushi, November 1945 - landing beaches

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  Downfall, Operation: Map 7a: Allied plans of Assault against Kyushi, November 1945 - allied assault force

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  Downfall, Operation: Map 7b: Beach organisation for Operation Olympic

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  Map showing Operation Ketsu-Go, August 1945
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  Overall Allied assault plans for Operation Downfall
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  Cover of the Strategic Plan for Operation Downfall

Pearl Harbour

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  Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941 - First War (07:35)
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  Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941 - Second Wave (08:40)
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  Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941 - The Naval Base and Naval Air Station at around 07:30
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  Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941 - First Wave
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  Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941 - The Second Wave

Peleliu

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  Peleliu: The Landing Beaches
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  Peleliu: The American Assault and the line of advance at the end of D-Day
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  Peleliu: American Line of Advance by the end of D+3
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  Peleliu: US advances up to D+9
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  Peleliu: Isolation of the Umurbrogol Pocket and US Advances D+10 to D+1
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  Peleliu: Location of the Palau Islands
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  Peleliu: The Palau Islands
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  Peleliu: Japanese Defensive Map
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  Peleliu: The Initial American Assault
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  Peleliu: A typical Japanese cave system

Solomon Islands

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  Solomon Islands
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  Solomon Islands: Japanese Occupation
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  Solomon Islands: Allied Invasions
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  New Georgia Campaign

Tarawa

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  Tarawa: The Marines Assault Betio, 20th November 1943
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  Tarawa: The Marines Foothold, 18.00hrs, 20th November 1943
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  Tarawa: Marine gains by 18.00hrs, 21st November 1943
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  Tarawa: Marines gains by 18.00hrs, 22nd November 1943
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  Tarawa: The Final Phase, 23rd November 1943
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  Tarawa: Map of the Atoll