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Masson, André
Mastalerz, Colonel
Matsuoka, Yopsuke
Matyka, Edward
Maung Maung
Mauritius: food shortages
Mauritius Regiment
May, Bert
Maze, Etienne
Mears, Fred
Mediterranean: German plans to expel British, 4.1; Mussolini’s strategy in, 5.1; danger as shipping route, 5.2, 11.1; Luftwaffe actions in, 5.3, 11.2; naval problems in, 11.3; Royal Navy actions in, 11.4, 11.5; Axis shipping losses, 11.6; Allies gain upper hand, 11.7, 14.1; Churchill’s strategy in, 14.2, 14.3, 18.1
Meikley, Hilde
Meiktila, Burma
Mekhlis, Gen. Lev
Melling, Doris
Melnikov, Ivan, 15.1, 15.2
Melville, Herman
Mendelsohn, Murray
Menenzes, Leo
Menzies, Robert
merchant navy (Allied): losses and sufferings, 11.1, 11.2; on Arctic run, 11.3; see also Atlantic
merchant vessels: Brisbane Star, 11.1; Christopher Newport, 11.2; Clan Ferguson, 11.3; Deucalion, 11.4; Dover Hill, 11.5; Empire Archer, 11.6; Empire Hope, 11.7; Induna, 11.8; J.L.M. Curry, 11.9; Melbourne Star, 11.10; Ocean Voice, 11.11; Ohio (U.S. oil tanker), 11.12; Port Chalmers, 11.13; Rochester Castle, 11.14; Troubadour, 11.15
Merridale, Catherine
Mers-el-Kébir: French fleet bombarded by British, 4.1, 5.1
Mersa Matruh
Messerschmitt Me-262 (jet fighter)
Metaxas, Gen. Ioannis, 5.1, 5.2
Metelmann, Henry, 6.1, 12.1
Meuse, river: Germans cross (1940)
Meyer, Hubert
Meyer, Gen. Kurt, 1.1, 21.1
Mi Mi Khaing
Michaelis, Hans
Michon, Col. Daniel
Middle East: British position in, 5.1, 16.1
Midway, Battle of (1942), 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 26.1
Midway Atoll: in Japanese strategy, 10.1, 10.2
Miers, Anthony (“Skip”), VC
Mihailović, Draža
Mikawa, Vice Adm. Gunichi
Mikoyan, Anastas, 6.1, 12.1
Milburn, Clara
Milch, Gen. Erhard, 19.1, 19.2
Millett, Allan and Williamson Murray: There’s a War to Be Won, itr.1
Minamoto, Capt. Yoshiro
Minsk: falls to Germans
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind, 1.1, 1.2
Mitford, Nancy
Mitscher, Adm. Marc, USN, 10.1, 22.1
Mitsuharu, Noda
Mitsuru, Yoshida
Mitze, Ilse
Model, Gen. Walther: stabilises line in Russia, 7.1; and Hitler’s order not to yield ground, 7.2; mounts counteroffensive west of Moscow, 7.3; in Battle of Kursk, 15.1; and Russian breakthrough at Leningrad, 21.1; replaces Kleist, 21.2; replaces Busch, 21.3; in Battle of Arnhem, 23.1; ferocity of troops, 23.2; suicide, 24.1; qualities, 26.1
Möhne dam
Molders, Werner
Molotov, Vyacheslav M.: on Soviet occupation of Poland (1939), 1.1; congratulates Hitler on capture of Paris, 3.1; and Russian westward expansionism, 4.1
“Molotov cocktails”: in Finland
Moltke, Count Helmuth von, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 14.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 21.1
Monckeburg, Lt. Jasper
Monroe, Rose Will
Monsarrat, Nicholas
Monte Cassino, Italy, 13.1, 18.1, 21.1
Montgomery, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law: Alamein victory, 11.1; wartime promotions, 13.1; commands in North Africa, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4; in Sicily campaign, 18.1, 18.2; dismisses Wigram, 18.3; returns to England for Normandy invasion, 18.4; on slow advance in Italy, 18.5; command for invasion of Europe, 21.1, 21.2; campaign in Normandy, 21.3; and battle for Caen, 21.4; relegated to leadership of 21st Army Group, 21.5; aims to capture Arnhem bridge, 23.1, 23.2; antagonises Americans, 23.3, 26.1; shortage of infantrymen, 23.4; given command of northern sector in defence of Ardennes, 23.5; conducts final stages of campaign in NW Europe, 24.1; crosses Rhine, 24.2; accepts German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, 24.3; qualities, 26.2
Moody, Lt. Tony, 13.1, 23.1
Moonen, Rosemary
Mooney, James
Moore, U.S. Marine Lt. Paul
Moore, Lt. Peter
Moorehead, Alan, 5.1, 5.2, 13.1
Morawetz, SS Sergeant
Mordal, Jacques
Morden, Beryl
Morgan, Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick: on U.S. war effort, 10.1; on U.S. leaders, 13.1; criticises Montgomery, 14.1, 23.1; as chief Allied planner for D-Day, 21.1; failure at Arnhem, 23.2; on Ardennes battle, 23.3
Morris, Robert
Moscow: threatened by Germans, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1; Germans forced to retreat from, 7.2; overnight curfew lifted (Easter 1942), 12.1
Moser, Hans, 13.1, 23.1
Moser, Konrad
Moskvin, Nikolai, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Mountbatten,