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North West Europe campaign

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99:, and was restricted to the Belgian and French Channel ports. During this campaign, the French Army was responsible for the rest of the Western Front from Luxembourg to Switzerland, much of which was defended by the 257: 108: 149: 229: 225: 92: 240: 214: 199: 37: 177: 203: 47:"North-West Europe" was awarded to any unit involved in land, sea and air campaigns and operations in, over or near 161: 21: 33: 157: 153: 36:
has also sometimes been used informally. The United States military refers to this campaign as the
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British Commonwealth air force units who served over Occupied Europe, between the
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Between 1940 and 1944, Commonwealth army units conducted coastal raids in German-
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of all German forces in the Netherlands, north west Germany and Denmark on
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Index

British Commonwealth
North West Europe
World War II
Western Front
European Theater of Operations
battle honour
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
United Kingdom
World War II
North-West Europe campaign of 1940
Battle of France
Maginot Line
the defeat
British Expeditionary Force
evacuation from the beaches
Dunkirk
Occupied Europe
Dieppe raid
fall of France
D-Day
Fortress Europe
North-West Europe campaign of 1944–45
British Second Army
First Canadian Army

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