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Rosie the Riveter
The female cultural icon that supplied items to the army men -
The Tuskegee Airmen
the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II. -
D-Day Allied forces come ashore in France
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944; termed D-Day, of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II -
Japanese navy defeated at Leyte Gulf
After four days of fighting, the World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest air-naval battle in history, ends with a decisive American victory over the Japanese.