 Conquering Fortress Eben Emael at the Belgian Border in 1940 can be considered as step on the German campaign against France.A report written by Major-General Robert Laycock in 1947 said there was a German raid on a radar station on the Isle of Wight in 1941.In 1944–45, Japanese "Teishin Shudan" ("Raiding Group") and "Giretsu" ("heroic") detachments made airborne assaults on Allied airfields in the Philippines, Marianas and Okinawa.