• the Allied Bombing of Bucharest in World War II damaged the University of Bucharest and uprooted trees at the Botanical Garden of Bucharest?
• the Allied force which landed on Morotai in September 1944 was over a hundred times larger than the Japanese force defending the island?
• the 1944 German film Große Freiheit Nr. 7 was banned in Nazi Germany and only permitted by the Allies in late 1945?
• during the later stages of World War II, the Bordeaux wine estate Château Lascombes served as a headquarters for the Allied forces?
• during the invasion of Normandy, more than a million Rommelspargel poles (pictured) placed to injure Allied paratroopers and glider infantry proved ineffective?
• the Liberator that crashed in 1943 in New Zealand during World War II was transferring Japanese men, women and children from the consular corps to exchange for Allied POWs?
• the Battle of San Marino was fought between Allied and German forces inside a neutral country?
• two members of No. 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo, following The Great Escape in 1944?
• the capture of the strategic Klisura Pass by the Greek army, in January 1941, was considered a major success by the Allied forces?
• the Reggiane Re.2007 was a proposed Italian fighter aircraft to be used in the final phase of World War II as a defense against the increasing Allied bombing raids?
• the Romanian–American Refinery was one of several refineries bombarded by the allied powers in Operation Tidal Wave during World War II?
• despite losing Belgium to the Allies, Nazi Germany declared Flanders a reichsgau in 1944?
• at great risk, Squadron Leader Phil Lamason of the RNZAF negotiated the transfer of 166 allied airmen from Buchenwald concentration camp, a week before their scheduled execution?
• M. E. Clifton James posed as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as part of an Allied deception plan called Operation Copperhead in 1944, and then went on to play himself in a 1958 biopic called I Was Monty's Double?
• Leon Feiner, a leader of the Bund and of Żegota, wrote many communiques to the Western Allies describing the Holocaust in Poland?
• Italian aerodynamicist Antonio Ferri took to the hills in 1943 with a trunk load of scientific documents to turn over to the Allies?
• Allied aircraft, including the one that located the Bismarck, were permitted to fly across neutral Irish territory using the Donegal Corridor?
• Operation Cockade, a series of Allied deceptive operations during World War II, was so unsuccessful that it was later described as being “at best a piece of harmless play acting”?
• U-106 was one of Germany's most successful submarines, sinking twenty-two Allied ships in World War II?
• all Allied pilots shot down over Poland in World War II are laid to rest at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków?
• a small Allied rearguard at the strategic pass of Thermopylae held off German forces invading Greece in 1941 at the most recent Battle of Thermopylae?
• Flight of the Red Tail chronicles the second restoration of a P-51 Mustang bomber escort for the Allied Forces in the European Theatre of World War II?
• U-515 sank seven Allied ships in a 12-hour period during her third patrol of the war?
• 66 years ago today, 168 captured Allied airmen—accused by the Gestapo of being "Terrorflieger" (terror fliers)—arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp and subsequently formed the KLB Club?

Facts on topics related to Allies of World War II

Second Sino-Japanese War

• Sir Christopher Chancellor was selected to lead the Reuters news agency in 1944, after keeping the agency's reporting from China operating during the seven years following the Japanese invasion?
• the Aichi D1A (pictured) was a carrier-borne dive bomber primarily used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
• the Sun Ning Railway Company, South China's first significant railway, was dismantled in December 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War to deny its use by the Japanese military?

Allied leaders of World War II

• during World War II, Allied leaders met at the Droxford Station of the Meon Valley Railway to plan Operation Overlord?

History of Germany during World War II

• during World War II, the Czech actor Oldřich Nový refused to divorce his wife, as a consequence of which they were both imprisoned in a German concentration camp?
• the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division was a Ukrainian military formation in the German armed forces during the World War II and that it fought against the Red Army in Graz, Austria?