major battles ww2

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Across
  1. 2. – 1942 failed Canadian raid
  2. 4. – Canadian RAF ace
  3. 6. BRIGADE – Elite Canadian-American force
  4. 8. – Country with major WWII contributions
  5. 9. – British Royal Air Force
  6. 11. – Waterway protecting Britain
  7. 15. – U.S. president in 1945
  8. 18. – Longest battle of the war
  9. 20. – Port opened after Scheldt
  10. 21. – Port where Allied rescue took place
  11. 22. – City Canadians captured in Italy
  12. 24. UNION – Country Hitler invaded in 1941
  13. 26. – First Canadian land battle in the Pacific
  14. 27. – Bomber that dropped atomic bomb
  15. 28. – German submarines
Down
  1. 1. – Another Baltic state invaded
  2. 3. HARBOR – Attack that brought U.S. into war
  3. 4. – Hitler’s next target after France
  4. 5. day – May 8, 1945
  5. 7. – French defensive line
  6. 10. – Country invaded by the Soviets
  7. 12. – First atomic bomb target
  8. 13. – Second atomic bomb target
  9. 14. – German air force
  10. 15. WAR – Canada’s full national commitment to war
  11. 16. – One of the Baltic states invaded
  12. 17. – German “lightning war” strategy
  13. 19. – Third Baltic state invaded
  14. 23. – German-controlled French puppet state
  15. 24. – Island invaded in 1943
  16. 25. PRINCE – Decorated Indigenous Canadian soldier
  17. 29. – River Canadians cleared to open Antwerp