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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the first to be fought mainly in the air. It decided the fate of Great Britain during WWII. The Battle of Britain was fought in southern England, including Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) and Nazi Germany’s Air Force, the Luftwaffle. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII. Operation Barbarossa’s goal was to defeat and destroy Soviet Unions Red Army and seize the cities of Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev. -
Operation Torch
Operation torch was the first major allied “attack” resulting in 556 killed, 837 wounded, and 41 missing for the Americans -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German occupied Western Europe -
Yalta Conference
US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin met at the Yalta resort in then-Soviet Crimea to finalize their strategy for the remainder of World War Two