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Battle of Dunkirk
Dunkirk was the only port left to evacuate the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) from Europe in 1940. And thanks to the plans they had made, 198,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian troops had been saved. But virtually all of their heavy equipment had to be abandoned, and, of the 41 destroyers participating, six were sunk and 19 others damaged. What of the Allied forces were going to cross the Dunkirk to enter Britain, and HItler unknowingly pulled his troops back from a perfect ambush. -
Battle of Pearl Harbor
A surprise aerial attack by Japanese bombers that took the lives of many Americans. Yamamoto was the Japanese military officer, and Walter Campbell and Husband Edward both shared command at Pearl Harbor. The battleship called the USS Arizona blew up with a tremendous amount of force. Hardly a vessel of the sea was spared in the bombing, and most of the planes in the base were destroyed. U.S. military casualties totaled more than 3,400, including more than 2,300 killed. -
Battle of Moscow
A battle between Germany and the Soviet Union that doomed the Third Reich. The German air force was commanded by Wolfram von Richthofen, and the Soviets military leader for this battle was Stalin himself. Germany lost 250,000–400,000 people, either dead or wounded, and the Red Army lost 600,000–1,300,000 people, who were dead, wounded, or captured. -
Battle of Midway
A battle almost entirely fought between aircraft between the U.S. and Japan. Yamamoto Isoroku, a Japanese military officer, and Marc A. Mitscher, a U.S. naval officer were the major people who commanded the sides. Japan lost four carriers, a heavy cruiser, and more than 320 planes. Approximately 3,000 Japanese sailors and airmen were killed as well. The U.S. lost one carrier and a destroyer, as well as nearly 150 aircraft, as well as 317 sailors, airmen, and Marines from the Midway garrison. -
Battle of Stalingrad
This war turned the tide of war in favour of the Allies. It was fought between the Axis power, who casualties were more than 800,000 dead, wounded, missing, or captured, and the Soviets, who casualties were about 1,100,000 to dead, wounded, missing, or captured, and about 40,000 civilians died as well. Some important people involved with the battle were Friedrich Paulus, a German military officer, Vasily Chuikov, a Soviet general, and Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, a Soviet commander. -
Battles of Kursk
This was the unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany. Walther Model was the commander for the German forces. This battle ended the Germans offensive capabilities in the East, and cleared the way for the great Soviet offensive in 1944-45. -
Battle of Normandy
This was the Allied invasion, during which the landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces happened on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. Casualties for Germany were 320,000, including 30,000 killed, 290,000 wounded or missing, casualties for the United States were 135,000, including 29,000 killed and 106,000 wounded, casualties for the United Kingdom were 65,000, including 11,000 killed and 54,000 wounded, & casualties for France included 12,200 civilians killed or missing. -
Battle of Bulge
The last major German offensive on the Western Front. This was an unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German home territory. The Allies suffered some 75,000 casualties, Germany lost 120,000 men and stores of materials that it could not afford to replace. some people related the battle were Creighton Williams Abrams Jr., who was a United States general, Josef Dietrich, who was a German military officer, Hasso baron of Manteuffel, who was a German military strategist, and more. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This was a costly victory for the U.S. against Japan. Japan lost about 18,500 soldiers, and The U.S. lost some 6,800 due to death and 19,200 were wounded. Some significant people surrounding this battle were George Catlett Marshall and Douglas MacArthur, who were both United States generals, Tōjō Hideki, the prime minister of Japan, and Ernest Joseph King, a United States admiral. This victory provided the U.S. with important airfields that would be very helpful throughout the rest of the War. -
Battle of Berlin
This was one of the last battles in World War II. Berlin, which was held by Germany at the time, fell to the Red Army and the Soviets. The Soviet marshals were Ivan Konev and Georgiy Zhukov, and were ready to accept enormous casualties to take back control of the city. The Soviet Army committed acts like rape, murder, and theft as they fought the battle to civilians they found in the city. The Red Army suffered about 100,000 casualties, and the number of German casualties is unknown.