| Western Front | |||||||||
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| Part of the European theatre of World War II | |||||||||
 Clockwise from top left: Rotterdam after the Blitz, German Heinkel He 111 planes during the Battle of Britain, Allied paratroopers during Operation Market Garden, American troops running through Wernberg, Germany, Siege of Bastogne, American troops landing at Omaha Beach during Operation Overlord | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Poland Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Norway Denmark (9 April 1940) Canada Czechoslovakia |
Axis 1939-1940  Germany Italy | ||||||||
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1944-1945  France Canada Poland Belgium Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Czechoslovakia(and others) |
1944-1945 | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
1939–1940 Maurice Gamelin  Maxime Weygand  John Vereker, Lord Gort William Boyle, Lord Cork Władysław Sikorski Henri Winkelman Leopold III Émile Speller Otto Ruge William Prior 1944–1945  Franklin D. Roosevelt # Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower Winston Churchill Bernard Montgomery Arthur Tedder Omar Bradley Jacob L. Devers George S. Patton Courtney Hodges William Simpson Alexander Patch Miles Dempsey Trafford Leigh-Mallory † Bertram Ramsay † Charles de Gaulle Jean de Tassigny Kenneth Stuart Harry Crerar Kazimierz Sosnkowski Stanisław Maczek |
1939–1940 Walter von Brauchitsch Gerd von Rundstedt Erich von Manstein Heinz Guderian Fedor von Bock Wilhelm von Leeb Erich Raeder Nikolaus von Falkenhorst Prince Umberto 1944–1945 Adolf Hitler † Heinrich Himmler † Hermann Göring † Gerd von Rundstedt Karl Dönitz Günther von Kluge † Walter Model † Albert Kesselring Erwin Rommel † Johannes Blaskowitz † Hermann Balck Paul Hausser Benito Mussolini   Rodolfo Graziani | ||||||||
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1939–1940
1944–1945
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1939–1940
1944–1945
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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1940
1944–1945
(~70% of Allied troops and casualties were Americans)
Total:
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1940
1944–1945
Total:
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Civilian casualties: 1,650,000 dead | |||||||||
The Western Front of World War II was a theatre in which Germany invaded most of Western Europe in 1940, and where the western allies liberated most of Western Europe between 1944 and 1945. (The Italian Front is a separate but related front).