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Battle of Britain
A battle between Britain’s Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe that was fought solely in the air. -
Invasion of the Soviet Union
The invasion of the Soviet Union was a Hitler ordered event deliberately breaking the nonaggression pact that the two countries had signed two years before. The invasion was the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that 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 nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. The battle is infamous as one of the largest, longest and bloodiest engagements in modern warfare. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. Navy’s Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final push towards Japan.
