79th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery

79th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery

Campaigns of World War II
Europe
Poland
Phoney War
Denmark & Norway
France & Benelux
Britain
Balkans
Yugoslav Front
Eastern Front
Finland
Western Front (1944–45)
Asia & The Pacific
China
Pacific Ocean
South-East Asia
South West Pacific
Japan
Manchuria (1945)
Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa
Adriatic
North Africa
East Africa
Mediterranean Sea
Gibraltar
Malta
Dakar
Balkans
Gabon
Iraq
Syria-Lebanon
Madagascar
Bahrain
Palestine
Iran
Italy
Dodecanese
Southern France
Other campaigns
Atlantic
Arctic
Strategic Bombing
America
Contemporaneous wars
Chinese Civil
Winter War
Soviet–Japanese Border
French–Thai
Ili Rebellion
Western Front
Prelude
1939
  • Phoney War
  • Saar
  • The Heligoland Bight
1940
  • Luxembourg
  • The Netherlands
    • The Hague
    • Rotterdam
    • Zeeland
    • Rotterdam Blitz
  • Belgium
    • Fort Eben-Emael
    • Hannut
    • Gembloux
  • France
    • Sedan
    • Montcornet
    • Arras
    • Lille
    • Calais
    • Abbeville
    • Paula
    • Dunkirk
    • Dunkirk evacuation
    • Italian Invasion of France
    • Saumur
  • Britain
    • Adlertag
    • The Hardest Day
    • Battle of Britain Day
    • The Blitz
  • Sea Lion
1942–1943
  • Cerberus and Donnerkeil
  • St Nazaire Raid
  • Dieppe Raid
1944–1945
  • Overlord
  • Dragoon
  • Siegfried Line
  • Market Garden
    • Arnhem
  • Hürtgen Forest
  • Aachen
  • Queen
  • Scheldt
  • Bulge
    • Nordwind
    • Bodenplatte
  • Colmar Pocket
  • Invasion of Germany
Strategic Campaigns
  • The Blitz
  • Defence of the Reich
  • Battle of Atlantic
Pacific Campaigns
1940–1942
  • French Indochina
  • Nauru
  • Thailand
  • Malaya
  • Hawaii
  • North America
  • Hong Kong
  • Philippines
  • Guam
  • Wake
  • Marshalls & Gilberts
  • Dutch East Indies
  • New Guinea
  • Singapore
  • Australia
  • Indian Ocean
  • Doolittle Raid
  • Solomons
  • Coral Sea
Dutch East Indies Theater
  • Borneo 1941–42
  • Manado
  • Tarakan 1942
  • Balikpapan 1942
  • Ambon
  • Makassar Strait
  • Sumatra
  • Palembang
  • Badung Strait
  • Timor
  • USS Langley
  • 1st Java Sea
  • Sunda Strait
  • Java
  • 2nd Java Sea
  • Action of 6 October 1944
  • Action of 10 November 1944
  • Action of 23 April 1945
  • Action of 8 June 1945
  • Borneo (1945)
Pacific War

Central Pacific

  • Hawaii
  • Marshalls-Gilberts raids
  • Doolittle Raid
  • Coral Sea
  • Midway
  • RY
  • Solomons
  • Gilberts and Marshalls
  • Marianas and Palau
  • Volcano and Ryukyu
  • Carolines

Southeast Asia

  • Indochina (1940)
  • Thailand
  • Dutch East Indies
  • Malaya
  • Burma (1941–42)
  • Singapore
  • Burma (1942–43)
  • Burma (1944)
  • Burma (1944–45)
  • Indochina (1945)
  • Malacca Strait
  • Tiderace
  • Zipper
  • Franco-Thai War
  • Indian Ocean (1940–45)
  • Strategic bombing (1944–45)

Southwest Pacific

  • Philippines 1941–1942
  • Dutch East Indies 1941–1942
  • Portuguese Timor
  • Australia
  • New Guinea
  • Philippines 1944–1945
  • Borneo 1945

North America

  • Aleutian Islands Campaign
  • Ellwood
  • Estevan Point Lighthouse
  • Fort Stevens
  • Lookout Air Raids
  • Fire Balloon Attacks

Japan

  • Air raids
  • Mariana Islands
  • Volcano & Ryukyu Is
  • Tokyo
  • Starvation
  • Naval bombardments
  • Yokosuka
  • Sagami Bay
  • Kure
  • Downfall
  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki
  • Kurils
  • Japanese surrender

Manchuria

  • Manchuria (1945)
  • Sakhalin
  • Kuril Islands

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