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Battle of Midway
Decisive American victory
307 americans dead
3057 japs dead
The Battle of Midway with the Guadalcanal Campaign, is widely considered a turning point in the Pacific War. of Midway -
Allies Drive Germans out of North Africa
The North African Campaign of the Second World War took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia 2,715 killed 8,978 wounded
6,528 missing -
D-Day
Battle of Normandy
156,000 American, British, and Canadian landing on beaches 50 mile long
10,000 casualties; 4,414 confirmed dead
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy -
V-E Day
Hitler and nazi leader committed suicide during battle of berlin
Marked the end of wwii
The act of military surrender was signed on may 7th
to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
atomic bomb of nagasaki
August 1945, the Allies' Manhattan Project had produced two types of atomic bombs. August 9, a plutonium implosion-type (Fat Man) bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. 39,000–80,000 deaths in Nagasaki