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Between 1,000 to 2,000 Chamorro people were killed or otherwise died of abuse and mistreatment during the Japanese occupation of Guam from December 10, 1941, until August 10, 1944, including an estimated 600 civilians who were massacred by the Japanese during the Battle of Guam (1944).
This is a list of United States Armed Forces general officers and flag officers who were killed in World War II. The dates of death listed are from the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 to the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945, when the United States was officially involved in World War II. Included are generals and admirals who ...
The number of Bulgarian partisan deaths against the "fascists" was 10,000. 10,124 Bulgarian and 21,035 Romanian deaths were documented with the Allies. 1,036 Finns died in the Lapland War and 8,000 Czech partisans were killed in the Prague Uprising. The Allied casualties at the Eastern Front total at 8,900,000 deaths.
In mid-1942, however, party leaders increased their popularity by calling young people to fight for the liberation of their country from Italy. In September 1942, the party organized the Albanian National Anti-Fascist Front, from a number of resistance groups, including several that were strongly anti-communist. They assembled a National ...
This category has the following 24 subcategories, out of 24 total. Civilians killed in World War II by nationality (26 C) Military personnel killed in World War II by nationality (33 C) World War II prisoners of war by nationality (12 C)
Kiev, 23 June 1941. A victim of starvation in besieged Leningrad suffering from muscle atrophy in 1941. World War II losses of the Soviet Union were about 27,000,000, both civilian and military from all war-related causes, [1] although exact figures are disputed. A figure of 20 million was considered official during the Soviet era.
Jimmy Walker (basketball, born 1913) James R. Ward. Frederick T. Weber. Chet Wetterlund. John W. Wilcox Jr. Jack Williams (Medal of Honor) John Harlan Willis. Irving Wiltsie.
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, participated in the conflict, and many invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between ...