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CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS
ALLIED COUNTRIES
AND CHAIN OF COMMAND
ON JUNE 6, 1944 PARTIAL LIST
BELGIUM
KING LEOPOLD III
HUBERT PIERLOT , Prime Minister
GENERAL VICTOR VAN STRYDONCK DE BURKEL , Commander of the Belgian forces in Great Britain and Chief of the Belgian Military Mission to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF)
BRITISH EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH
KING GEORGE VI , King of the United Kingdom and Dominions of the British Commonwealth
AUSTRALIA
JOHN CURTAIN , Prime Minister
SIR THOMAS BLAMEY, (Field Marshal) Commander in Chief of the Australian military forces
CANADA
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING , Prime Minister
HARRY CRERAR , General and de facto commander of the Canadian military
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
WINSTON CHURCHILL , Prime Minister
ANDREW CUNNINGHAM , First Sea Lord, head of the Royal Navy
CHARLES PORTAL , Chief of the Air Staff, head of the Royal Air Force
BERNARD MONTGOMERY , 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Field Marshal in command of the 21st Army Group and all Allied ground forces during Operation OVERLORD
HUGH DOWDING , 1st Baron Dowding, Air Chief Marshal RAF Fighter Command
REPUBLIC OF CHINA
CHIANG KAI-SHEK , leader of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China and Supreme Commander of the Chinese theater
FREE FRENCH FORCES
CHARLES DE GAULLE , leader of the Free French, head of the French government in exile, and head of the French Army of Liberation
MAJOR GENERAL JACQUES-PHILIPPE LECLERC , in command of Free French forces in France
POLISH GOVERNMENT IN EXILE
WADYSAW RACZKIEWICZ , President of the Polish government in exile
STANISAW MIKOAJCZYK , Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile
KAZIMIERZ SOSNKOWSKI , Commander in Chief of the Polish Armed Forces
SOVIET UNION
JOSEPH STALIN , General Secretary of the Communist Party, Premier of the Soviet Union
GEORGY ZHUKOV , Field Marshal
NIKOLAY GERASIMOVICH KUZNETSOV , Admiral of the Soviet Navy
VYACHESLAV MOLOTOV , Foreign Minister
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT , President
GEORGE MARSHALL , General and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
HENRY H. ARNOLD , Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces
ERNEST KING , Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, Chief of Naval Operations, and Fleet Admiral
HENRY L. STIMSON , Secretary of War
EUROPEAN FRONT
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER , Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe
OMAR N. BRADLEY , General of the U.S. Army
JACOB L. DEVERS , Commander of the 6th Army Group in Europe
CARL ANDREW SPAATZ , Commander of the Air Forces Combat Command
ROYAL E. INGERSOLL , Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet
AXIS COUNTRIES
AND CHAIN OF COMMAND
ON JUNE 6, 1944 PARTIAL LIST
THE THIRD REICH (NAZI GERMANY)
ADOLF HITLER , Fhrer
HEINRICH HIMMLER , Supreme Commander of the Home Army
HERMANN GRING , Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe, Reichsmarschall of the Greater German Reich
ALBERT SPEER , German Minister of Armaments
WILHELM KEITEL , General and Chief of the High Command of the German military
GERD VON RUNDSTEDT , Field Marshal of the German Army
ERWIN ROMMEL , in command of the German forces during the Battle of Normandy
EMPIRE OF JAPAN
HIROHITO , Emperor, Commander of the Imperial General Headquarters
HIDEKI TOJO , Prime Minister
MITSUMASA YONAI , Minister of the Imperial Japanese Navy
OSAMI NAGANO , Chief of Staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy
TOMOYUKI YAMASHITA , Lieutenant General of the Imperial Japanese Army
ITALIAN SOCIAL REPUBLIC
BENITO MUSSOLINI , Head of State
RODOLFO GRAZIANI , Minister of Defense
GIOVANNI MESSE , Commander of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia
1939
MAY 22
Adolf Hitler of Germany signs a treaty with Italys Benito Mussolini
AUGUST 23
Joseph Stalin of Russia and Adolf Hitler sign a pact vowing not to invade each others countries
SEPTEMBER 1
Germany invades Poland
SEPTEMBER 3
Britain and France declare war on Germany
SEPTEMBER 10
The Parliament of Canada declares war on Germany
DECEMBER 18
First Canadian troops arrive in Europe
1940
MAY 9
Germany invades Denmark and Norway
MAY 10
Germany invades Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg
MAY 15
Holland surrenders
JUNE 10
Italy declares war on Britain and France
JUNE 14
Germany invades Paris, and France surrenders to the Nazis
JUNE 28
Charles de Gaulle is recognized as the leader of the Free French Forces, French troops who had escaped to Britain after the Nazis occupied France
JULY 10
The Battle of Britain between the RAF and the Luftwaffe begins in the skies over England
SEPTEMBER 7
The German Blitz against London begins
SEPTEMBER 13
Italian forces invade Egypt
SEPTEMBER 17
Hitler postpones invasion of Britain after losing air battle
OCTOBER 7
German troops enter Romania
OCTOBER 28
Italy invades Greece
1941
APRIL 27
German troops occupy Athens
JUNE 1
The Nazi SS begin mass murder of Jews in eastern Poland
JUNE 22
Germans launch massive invasion of the Soviet Union
DECEMBER 7
The Japanese attack the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
DECEMBER 8
The U.S. Congress declares war on Japan
DECEMBER 11
Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S. The U.S. Congress declares war on Germany and Italy
1942
JANUARY 26
U.S. troops arrive in Europe
FEBRUARY 15
The British surrender to Japanese forces in Singapore
APRIL 1
Internment of U.S. Japanese-American citizens begins
JUNE 47
The U.S. wins decisive Battle of Midway, sinking four Japanese aircraft carriers
JULY 6
Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in Amsterdam
AUGUST
Germany attacks the Russian city of Stalingrad
NOVEMBER 8
The U.S. invasion of North Africa begins
1943
JANUARY 10
Soviets begin offensive against Germans in Stalingrad
JANUARY 23
U.S. troops take Tripoli (now Libya)
FEBRUARY 1
Germans surrender to Soviet forces in Stalingrad
MAY
Allied troops defeat the Germans in North Africa
JULY 5
Germans launch the largest tank battle in history at Kursk, Russia
JULY 9
Allied invasion of Sicily, an island off Italy, begins
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