Kancah Operasi Mediterranean
- Laman ini berurusan dengan Kancah Operasi Mediterranean Tentera Darat Amerika Syarikat. Lihat Perang Dunia II Kancah Mediterranean dan Timur Tengah untuk butiran lanjut kempen lain dalam kancah tersebut.
Kancah Operasi Mediterranean, Tentera Darat Amerika Syarikat (Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army atau MTOUSA), asalnya dipanggil Kancah Operasi Afrika Utara (North African Theater of Operations atau NATOUSA),[1] merupakan istilah Amerika bagi kancah operasi yang meliputi Afrika Utara dan Itali semasa Perang Dunia II. Operasi Amerika di kancah tersebut bermula dengan Angkatan Ekspedisi Bersekutu, yang mendarat di pantai barat laut Afrika pada 8 November 1942, dalam Operasi Torch. Mereka berakhir di Banjaran Alp Itali dalam tempoh 31 bulan kemudian dengan penyerahan kalah Jerman pada bulan Mei 1945.
Lihat juga[sunting | sunting sumber]
- Kempen Afrika Utara
- Perang Dunia II Kancah Mediterranean dan Timur Tengah
- Kempen Itali
- Sejarah ketenteraan United Kingdom semasa Perang Dunia II
- Kor Afrika
Nota kaki[sunting | sunting sumber]
- ^ Ernest F. Fisher, Jr. (1993). United States Army in World War 2, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, Cassino to the Alps: With a Portfolio of Maps. Government Printing Office. m/s. 9.
Rujukan[sunting | sunting sumber]
- Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 vol 1 (2002)
- Barnett, Correlli The Desert Generals (1961)
- Collier, Paul The Second World War: The Mediterranean, 1940-1945 (2002)
- Lee, Loyd E. ed. World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with General Sources: A Handbook of Literature and Research (1997)
- Murray, Williamson and Millett, Allan R. (2000). A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00163-X.
- Smith, J. Douglas and Richard Jensen. (2002) World War II on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites
- Weinberg, Gerhard L. (2005). A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44317-2.
- United States Army in World War II (United States Army Center of Military History series):
- Howe, George F. Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West (1991)
- The Mediterranean Theater of Operations - all 4 volumes available online
Bacaan lanjut[sunting | sunting sumber]
- Buchanan, Andrew. American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II (Cambridge UP, 2014). xvi, 311 pp.
- Ehlers Jr., Robert S. The Mediterranean Air War: Airpower and Allied Victory in World War II (University Press of Kansas, 2015) xvi, 520 pp.
- O’Hara, Vincent P. Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940–1945. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xviii, 324 pp) ISBN 978-1-59114-648-3