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Pearl Harbor
The only member of Congress that did not agree to conduct war against Japan was Jeanette Rankin, Representative from Montana 23 sets of brothers died aboard the USS Arizona -
Battle of Midway
The last American ship lost in the Battle of Midway was the USS Yorktown. -
First Battle of El Alamein
Rommel was also called "Desert Fox" for his ability to "sniff" out his enemies -
Guadalcanal Campaign
-Marines called the engagement in Savo Island The Five Sitting Ducks. The Japanse fleet sank the USS Astoria, Vicennes, Quincy, Chicago, and the HMS Canberra. -The Japanese called Guadalcanal Death Island or Starvation Island -
Stalingrad
1077th anti-aircraft regiment was made up entirely of young women, some not long out of high school. With just anti-aircraft guns they held off the Germans for two days destroying 83 tanks, 15 vehicles, 14 aircrafts, and 3 battalions. -
Invasion of Normandy
-German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel was absent from the invasion because he was celebrating his wife's birthday in Germany -The Allies made inflatable tanks and set them up in England across from the Pas de Calais to fool the Germans into thinking the invasion was happening somewhere else
