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Casualties: of Bataan Death March, 211; in Battle of the Atlantic, 125, 131, 136; in Battle of the Bulge, 355; of Chindit campaign, 257; of Cologne bombing, 279; of Dieppe raid, 224; of Dresden bombing, 286; in East African theater, 146; and evacuation of Greece, 144; and fall of France, 103; of French invasion, 319; in German invasion of Poland, 74; at Guadalcanal, 251, 252, 253; of Hamburg bombing, 285–286; in Italian campaign, 305; at Iwo Jima, 368–369, 370; at Kerch Peninsula, 236; at Kharkov, 236; at Kwajalein Lagoon, 336; from London Blitz, 113; at Mersel-Kebir, 104; of 1942 Soviet offensive, 241; of Normandy invasion, 316, 317, 320; in Norsk Hydro Plant bombing, 268–269; in North Africa, 222; at Okinawa, 372; of Pacific offensive, 334–335; at Peleliu, 341; in Philippines, 348; in Russo-Finnish War, 82; at Saipan, 337; at Sevastopol, 236; at Sicily, 293, 294; at Singapore, 204; Soviet attitude toward, 232, 233, 235; at Stalingrad, 238; at Tarawa landing, 259; in World War I, 23, 24, 33, 50; in World War II, 15, 378–380; in Yugoslavia, 143

Cauldron, Battle of the, 218, 219

Celebes, 205

Central Powers. See World War I

Chamberlain, Neville, 54, 59–62, 64, 66, 79, 87–88, 145

Chennault, Claire, 256, 327, 329

Cherbourg, France, 311, 318

“Chetniks,” 263

Chiang Kai-shek, 161, 163, 165, 183, 248, 256, 329, 386

Chichi Jima, 336

China: Allied war aims in, 183; Burma and, 207–208, 329; casualties in, 378–379; Japanese invasion of, 45–46, 52; and Japanese Pacific offensives, 200–201; Japanese stalemate in, 161–165; Japanese withdrawals from, 372; in 1943, 256; in 1944, 327, 329; post-World War II, 385–386; and U. S. negotiations with Japan, 165–166; under U. S. “strategic direction,” 248. See also Manchuria

“China Incident,” 45–46, 163

Chindits, 256–257, 330

Chinese Communists, 386

Churchill, Winston, 106, 145, 302–303, 307, 361; and Auchinleck, 220; and Battle of Britain, 105; becomes Prime Minister, 88; on Cripps, 385; and Dunkirk, 98–99; and fall of Belgium, 96; and fall of France, 77, 99, 101, 104, 108; and Hitler’s invasion of Soviet Union, 159; and invasion of Italy, 296–297, 299, 304; Mediterranean strategy and, 137; meeting with von Kleist-Schmenzin, 61; and Montgomery, 221; and North African theater, 219; and postwar plans for Berlin, 360; reaction to Pearl Harbor, 171; role of, 178; on R. A. F., 114; and Stalin’s betrayal of Polish Resistance, 272; at Tehran, 186; Tobruk counteroffensive and, 148; U. S. neutrality and, 113–114, 116; and war production, 110; war strategies of, 85; and World War I, 137. See also Allied conferences

Ciano, Count, 61, 62

Civil War in Russia, 48

Clark, Mark, 297, 303, 306, 350

Codes: Japanese, 169–170; and Rommel’s plans in North Africa, 221. See also Intelligence operations

“Colmar pocket,” 356–357

Cologne, Germany, bombing of, 277–279

Colonialism, after World War II, 384–385

Combined Chiefs of Staff. See Allies

Comintern, dissolution of, 382

Commandos: German, at Battle of the Bulge, 353–354; landing in Norway, 268. See also Resistance

Communists: fear of, Nazi Occupation and, 261; in interwar Italy, 34; in Resistance, 265–266; in U. S., 51. See also Chinese Communists; Sparticists

Compulsory labor system, 193–194

Concentration camps, 190, 361

Convoy PQ 17, 131–132

Convoy system, 125–126

Coral Sea, Battle of, 213–214

Corap, General, 92, 96

Corfu, Italian occupation of, 35

Corregidor, 211–212, 347

Corsica, 246

Coventry, bombing of, 114

Crerar, Henry, 321, 324, 357

Crete, Battle of, 144–146

Crimea, 233, 236

Cripps, Sir Stafford, 385

Croats, 143

Crutchley, V. A. C., 250

Czechoslovakia: German occupation of, 57–63, 69, 265; pact with France, 17; pact with Soviet Union, 58; Resistance in, 265

Czechoslovakian Army, 57–58, 60

D-Day. See Normandy invasion

Daladier, 54, 59, 61, 62, 91

Danzig, 63–64

Darlan, Jean, 226, 227, 228–229

Darter (U.S. submarine), 342–343

Darwin, Australia, bombing of, 205

Dawes Plan, 40, 52

de Gaulle, Charles, 101, 146, 184, 228, 229, 356; and German invasion of Belgium, 96; leaves France, 102; military theories of, 27

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