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Battle of Coral Sea

#WorldWarTwo #BattleOfMidway, #PacificTheater, #WorldWarII

This four-day World War II skirmish in May 1942 marked the first air-sea battle in history. The Japanese were seeking to control the Coral Sea with an invasion of Port Moresby in southeast New Guinea, but their plans were intercepted by Allied forces. When the Japanese landed in the area, they...

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Battle of Attu

#WorldWarTwo #BattleOfTheAleutianIslands, #WorldWarII

In the Battle of Attu, the main conflict of the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II (1939-45), American and Japanese armies fought from May 11 to May 30, 1943, for control of Attu, a small, sparsely inhabited island at the far western end of Alaska’s Aleutian chain in the North P...

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Battle of Arnhem

#WorldWarTwo #BernardLawMontgomery, #WorldWarII

In September 1944, after the victorious end of the Normandy campaign, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery devised a daring operation to open the way to the Ruhr by seizing a bridgehead north of the Rhine, at Arnhem. On September 17, Operation Market, the largest airborne and glider operation in...

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Battle of Anzio

#WorldWarTwo #ItalianCampaign, #WorldWarII

The 1944 Battle of Anzio stemmed from the Allied attempt to draw German troops off the Gustav Line during Operation Shingle. An expeditionary force commanded by U.S. Major General John P. Lucas secured a beachhead near Anzio and Nettuno on Italy’s west coast, but his divisions were quickly c...

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Battle of El Alamein

#WorldWarTwo #BernardLawMontgomery, #NorthAfricaCampaign, #WorldWarII

The Battle of El Alamein marked the culmination of the World War II North African campaign between the British Empire and the German-Italian army. Deploying a far larger contingent of soldiers and tanks than the opposition, British commander Bernard Law Montgomery launched an infantry...

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Battle of Britain

#WorldWarTwo #BattleOfBritain, #WinstonChurchill, #WorldWarII

 In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. A significant turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air sup...

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Battle of The Bulge

#WorldWarTwo #BattleOfTheBulge, #GeorgeSPatton, #WorldWarII

 In December 1944, Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize a...

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Battle of Stalingrad

#WorldWarTwo #BattleOfStalingrad, #EasternFront, #RussianHistory, #WorldWarII

 The Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942-Feb. 2, 1943), was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the g...

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Battle of Iwo Jima

#WorldWarTwo #BattleOfIwoJima, #PacificTheater, #USMarineCorps, #WorldWarII

The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000...

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D-Day

#WorldWarTwo #DDay, #WorldWarII

During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 A...

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Pearl Harbor

#WorldWarTwo #PacificTheater, #PearlHarborAttack

 Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, and was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage n...

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Blitzkrieg

#WorldWarTwo #AdolfHitler, #Germany, #WorldWarII, #WorldWarIITech

A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the ex...

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Yalta Conference

#WorldWarTwo #FranklinDRoosevelt, #JosephStalin, #WinstonChurchill, #WorldWarII, #WorldWarIILeaders

The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a p...

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What was Operation Mincemeat?

#WorldWarTwo #Spies, #WorldWarII

During World War II, British intelligence officers managed to pull off one of the most successful wartime deceptions ever achieved: Operation Mincemeat. In April 1943, a decomposing corpse was discovered floating off the coast of Huelva, in southern Spain. Personal documents identified him as...

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The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor: 70 Years Later

#WorldWarTwo #BataanDeathMarch, #PacificTheater, #Philippines

After the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines fell to the Japanese in April 1942, a cadre of Army and Navy nurses became the largest group of American women ever captured and imprisoned by an army. Malnourished, injured and ill, these nurses—all 77 of them—not only survived until their sub...

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9 Things You May Not Know About Mussolini

#WorldWarTwo #BenitoMussolini, #ItalianCampaign, #WorldWarII

On October 29, 1922, fascist leader Benito Mussolini was offered the Italian premiership amid political and social upheaval. Explore nine things you may not know about “Il Duce” and his 21 years in power. 1. Mussolini had a penchant for violence even as a youth. Born on July 29, 1883, Mus...

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

#FamousFigures, #WorldWarTwo #DwightDEisenhower

 As supreme commander of Allied forces in Western Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day (June 6, 1944). In 1952, leading Republicans convinced Eisenhower (then in command of NATO forces in Europe) to run for p...