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Norway: and Battle of the Atlantic, 128, 135; German invasion of, 84–88; German occupation of, 125, 191–192; invasion considered by Allies, 245; neutrality of, 84; Resistance and Norsk Hydro Plant affair, 268–269

Norwegian Army, surrender of, 88

Norwegian Leads, 83–84

Occupied Europe, 188–189; and efficiency of Nazis, 188–189; exploitation of, 192–194; extermination of Jews in, 197–199; forced labor draft in, 193–194; government of, 189–190; by Hitler and Napoleon compared, 263; and Nazi ideology, 188; preferential treatment in, 191–192; requisitioning in, 192–193; resistance movements in, see Resistance movements

O’Connor, Richard, 140

Odessa, Soviet Union, 157

Okinawa, Battle of, 367, 371–372

Oldendorf, Jesse, 343

Operation “Anvil,” 323–324

Operation Barbarossa, 152–153

Operation Citadel, 242–243

Operation Cobra, 321–322

Operation Magic Carpet, 380–381

Operation Market-Garden, 325–326

Operation Sea Lion, 106, 115

Operation Torch. See North Africa

Oradour-sur-Glane, massacre of, 270

Oran, allied invasion of, 227

Orne River, France, 315

Ortona, Italy, 301

“Overlord.” See Normandy invasion

Ozawa, Jisaburo, 338–339, 343

Pacific Fleet, 167, 168

Pacific theater: Allied military strategy for, 247–250; Battle of Leyte Gulf, 342–345; Battle of the Philippine Sea, 337–339; British offensive in Burma, 256–257, 329–332; China, 256, 327, 329; commanders in, 247–248; drive to Philippines, 332–342; Eniwetok landing, 336; European victories and, 327; isolation of Truk, 335–336; Iwo Jima landing, 367–369; Japanese offensives in, see Japanese Pacific offensives; Japanese superiority in, 364–366; Okinawa battle, 369–372; Peleliu offensive, 340–341; Saipan landing, 336–337; supplies to, 339–340

Palembang, Sumatra, 205

Palermo, Italy, fall of, 295

Papagos, Alexander, 144

Papen, Franz von, 41

Paris, France: declared open city, 101–102; fall of, 103; liberation of, 270–271, 322–323

Partisans: in Italy, 308; in Soviet Union, 196–197. See also Resistance

Pas de Calais, France, Hitler’s expected Allied invasion of, 313, 316, 318, 321

Patch, Alexander, 356, 359

Patton, George S., 227, 293, 294, 321–322, 324, 351, 353, 354, 358, 359

Paulus, Friedrich, 237, 240, 241

Peace of Lausanne, 15

Peace of Neuilly, 15

Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 15

Peace of Sèevres, 15

Peace of Trianon, 15

Pearl Harbor bombing, 160, 169–171; Churchill’s reaction to, 171; events leading to, 161–171; military effects of, 200; reasons for, 161, 168

Peking, China, Japanese occupation of, 46

Peleliu, battle of, 340–341

Perceval, A. E., 203, 204

Pescara, Italy, battles at, 300–301

Petacci, Clara, 360

Pétain, Henri, 24–25, 102, 226, 227

Philippine Islands, 200, 204; battle of, 208–212; post-World War II, 384; recapture of, 341–348

Philippine Sea, Battle of the, 337–339, 367

Philips, Sir Tom, 202–203

Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, 120–121

Plan Gelb, 93–94

Plan Yellow. See Plan Gelb

Po Valley, Italy, battles in, 308–309

Pointe du Hoc, France, 316

Poland: and Czechoslovakia, 61; effects of World War II on, 379; at end of World War I, 63–64; extermination of Jews in, 197–199; German Blitzkrieg in, 69–76; German invasion of, 75–76; historic background, 63–64; mutual defense pact with France, 16–17; Nazi occupation policies in, 195–196; Red Army in, 349; Resistance in, 264, 271–273; and Russo-Nazi Nonaggression Pact, 65–66; Soviet persecution in, 196; in Soviet sphere of influence, 383–384; surrender of, 74; war with Russia in 1920, 48

Polish Air Force, German Blitzkrieg and, 72–73

“Polish Corridor,” 63–64, 69, 71

Pomerania, 356

Port Moresby, New Guinea, 213–214

Potsdam Conference (1945), 186, 187, 374

Poznan Army, 73–74

Prisoners of war: American, in Philippines, 347; French, 103; Japanese attitude toward, 211, 213; Russian, 197; U-boat crews, 131

“Protected persons” in Poland, 195

Qattara Depression, Egypt, 219

Quadrant Conference (1943), 186

Quisling, Vidkun, 191

Rabaul, New Britain Islands, 249, 250, 334

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