When it became clear that the Normandy invasion was the major Allied effort, the division was ordered north to the front.

Allied efforts to force further action were defeated by the weather and the speed of the withdrawal.

The Allied efforts to destroy the plant were undertaken at the behest of Winston Churchill.

On 25 February the 99th joined an all-out Allied effort against Tokyo's port and industrial areas.

They carried much of the load in the initial Allied efforts in 1942.

By 1948, Germany had become a major pawn in Allied efforts to prevent the westward march of communism.

He did not believe that this would be the main Allied effort in western New Britain, however.

The Allied efforts to "de-concentrate and reorganize" the German coal, iron and steel industry were also continued.

Later, the Russians would attack from the east in an Allied effort to invade Germany.

Allied efforts in India were also hampered by the disordered state of Eastern India at the time.