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Battle of Guadalcanal
- 7 August 1942
- Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
- Contries who fought: U.S., Australia, New Zealand, U.K., British Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Empire of Japan.
- The Allied powers won.
- 7100 Allied lives lost
- "The Allies intended to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain."
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Battle of Stalingrad
- August 7 1942
- Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Countries who fought: Germany, Romania, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Soviet Union
- Had a Soviet victory
- 478741 people from the Soviet Union died.
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D-Day invasion
- Tuesday, 6 june 1944
- Took place in Normandy, France
- Contries who fought : U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Free France, Poland, Norway, Austrailia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greese, and Germany.
- Allied powers won.
- 4414 Allied lives lost
- "The invasion planners set forth a set of conditions regarding the phase of the moon, the tides, and the time of day that meant only a few days in each month were deemed suitable"
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Battle of the Bulge
- 16 December 1944
- Ardennes
- Countries who fought: U.S., U.K., Canada, Belgium, Luxembourgish resistance, Free France, Germany.
- Allied powers won
- 19200 allied powers lost lives
- largest and bloodiest battle fought by the United States in World War II.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
- Feb. 19 1945
- Iwo Jima, Japan
- U.S. V.S. Japan
- 6800 American lives lost.
- "One of the first objectives after landing on the beachhead was the taking of Mount Suribachi. At the second raising of a flag on the peak, Joe Rosenthal photographed five Marines raising the United States flag on the fourth day of the battle (February 23). The photograph was extremely popular."