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Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat was a successful
British disinformation plan during the
Second World War. As part of Operation
Barclay, the widespread deception
intended to cover the invasion of Italy
from North Africa, Mincemeat helped to
convince the German high command that
the Allies planned to invade Greece and
Sardinia in 1943 instead of Sicily, the
actual objective. This was accomplished
by persuading the Germans that they had,
by accident, intercepted "top secret"
documents giving details of Allied war
plans. The documents were attached to a
corpse deliberately left to wash up on a
beach in Punta Umbría in Spain. The
success of the planting of false documents
was confirmed through Ultra decrypts of
German messages.
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Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the
longest continuous military campaign
in World War II, running from 1939 to
the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its
core was the Allied naval blockade of
Germany, announced the day after the
declaration of war, and Germany's
subsequent counter-blockade. It was at
its height from mid-1940 through to
the end of 1943. The Battle of the
Atlantic pitted U-boats and other
warships of the Kriegsmarine and
aircraft of the Luftwaffe against the
Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy,
and Allied merchant shipping. The
convoys, coming mainly from North
America
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Battle of Dieppe
The Dieppe Raid, also known as the Battle
of Dieppe, Operation Rutter and, later,
Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on
the German-occupied port of Dieppe
during the Second World War. The raid
took place on the northern coast of France
on 19 August 1942. the Allied
commanders were forced to call a retreat.
Over 6,000 infantrymen, predominantly
Canadian, were supported by The Calgary
Regiment of the 1st Canadian Tank
Brigade and a strong force of Royal Navy
and smaller Royal Air Force landing
contingents. It involved 5,000 Canadians,
1,000 British troops, and 50 United States
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Battle of Bloody Gulch
The Battle of Bloody Gulch
took place near Hill 69
approximately 1 mile southwest
of Carentan in Normandy,
France on June 13, 1944,
between elements of the
German 17th SS
Panzergrenadier Division and
6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment,
and the American 501st, 502nd
and 506th, Parachute Infantry
Regiments of the U.S. 101st
Airborne Division, reinforced
by elements of the U.S. 2nd
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a surprise
military strike conducted
by the Imperial Japanese
Navy against the United
States naval base at Pearl
Harbor, in the United
States Territory of Hawaii,
on the morning of
December 7, 1941.
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Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea,
fought during 4–8 May 1942,
was a major naval battle in the
Pacific Theater of World War II
between the Imperial Japanese
Navy and naval and air forces
from the United States and
Australia. The battle was the
first action in which aircraft
carriers engaged each other, as
well as the first in which neither
side's ships sighted or fired
directly upon the other.
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Battle of Dresden
The Battle of Dresden was fought on
26–27 August 1813 around Dresden,
Germany, resulting in a French victory
under Napoleon against forces of the
Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians
and Prussians under Field Marshal
Schwartzenberg. However, Napoleon's
victory was not as complete as it could
have been. Substantial pursuit was not
undertaken after the battle, and the
flanking corps was surrounded and
forced to surrender a few days later at
the Battle of Kulm.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major
battle in which the United States
Armed Forces landed and eventually
captured the island of Iwo Jima from
the Japanese Imperial Army during
World War II. The American invasion,
designated Operation Detachment, had
the goal of capturing the entire island,
including the three Japanesecontrolled airfields, to provide a
staging area for attacks on the
Japanese main islands. This five-week
battle comprised some of the fiercest
and bloodiest fighting of the War in
the Pacific of World War II.
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Battle of Moscow
The Battle of Moscow is the name given
by Soviet historians to two periods of
strategically significant fighting on a 600
km sector of the Eastern Front during
World War II. It took place between
October 1941 and January 1942. The
Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's
attack on Moscow, capital of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics and the largest
Soviet city. Moscow was one of the
primary military and political objectives
for Axis forces in their invasion of the
Soviet Union.
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial
and decisive naval battle in the Pacific
Theatre of World War II. Between 3
and 6 June 1942, only six months after
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one
month after the Battle of the Coral
Sea, the United States Navy under
Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack
Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance
decisively defeated an attacking fleet
of the Imperial Japanese Navy under
Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi
Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near
Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating
damage on the Japanese fleet that
proved irreparable
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Battle of Sicliy
The Allied invasion of
Sicily, codenamed
Operation Husky, was a
major World War II
campaign, in which the
Allies took Sicily from the
Axis Powers. It was a large
scale amphibious and
airborne operation,
followed by six weeks of
land combat. It launched
the Italian Campaign.
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D-day
D-Day is the day on which a
combat attack or operation is to
be initiated. The best known DDay is June 6, 1944—the day of
the Normandy landings—
initiating the Western Allied
effort to liberate mainland
Europe from Nazi occupation
during World War II. However,
many other invasions and
operations had a designated DDay, both before and after that
operation.
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Fall of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the
September Campaign, or the 1939
Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively
the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiß in
Germany, was a joint invasion of Poland
by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small
Slovak contingent, that marked the
beginning of World War II in Europe. The
German invasion began on 1 September
1939, one week after the signing of the
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the
Soviet invasion commenced on 17
September following the Molotov-Tōgō
agreement that terminated
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Battle of Wake Island
The Battle of Wake Island began
simultaneously with the attack on
Pearl Harbor and against those of the
U.S., with Marines playing a
prominent role on both sides. ended on
23 December 1941, with the surrender
of the American forces to the Empire
of Japan. It was fought on and around
the atoll formed by Wake Island and
its islets of Peale and Wilkes Islands
by the air, land, and naval forces of the
Empire of Japan
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Battle of Leyte Gulf, formerly
known as the Second Battle of the
Philippine Sea, is generally considered
to be the largest naval battle of World
War II and, by some criteria, possibly
the largest naval battle in history
alongside the Battle of Red Cliffs in
208 CE and the Battle of Salamis in
480 BCE.
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Battle of Crete
The Battle of Crete was fought during
World War II on the Greek island of Crete.
It began on the morning of 20 May 1941,
when Nazi Germany launched an airborne
invasion of Crete under the code name
Unternehmen Merkur. Greek and Allied
forces, along with Cretan civilians,
defended the island. After one day of
fighting, the Germans had suffered very
heavy casualties and the Allied troops
were confident that they would defeat
invasion. The next day, through
miscommunication and the failure of
Allied commanders to grip the situation,
Maleme airfield in western Crete fell to
the Germans, enabling them to fly in
reinforcements and overwhelm the
defenders. The battle lasted about 10 days.
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Battle of Corregidor
The Battle of Corregidor was the
culmination of the Japanese campaign for
the conquest of the Commonwealth of the
Philippines during World War II. The fall
of Bataan on April 9, 1942 ended all
organized opposition by the U.S. Army
Forces Far East to the invading Japanese
forces on Luzon in the northern
Philippines. The island bastion of
Corregidor, with its network of tunnels and
formidable array of defensive armament,
along with the fortifications across the
entrance to Manila Bay, was the remaining
obstacle to the 14th Japanese Imperial
Army of Lieutenant General Masaharu
Homma. The Japanese had to take
Corregidor
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Battle of Bastogne
The Siege of Bastogne was an engagement
in December 1944 between American and
German forces at the Belgian town of
Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the
Bulge. The goal of the German offensive
was the harbour at Antwerp. In order to
reach it before the Allies could regroup
and bring their superior air power to bear,
German mechanized forces had to seize
the roadways through eastern Belgium.
Because all seven main roads in the
Ardennes mountain range converged on
the small town of Bastogne, control of its
crossroads was vital to the German attack.
The siege lasted from December 20–27,
after which the besieged American forces
were relieved by elements of General
George Patton's Third Army
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Battle of Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was an
important battle that took place
in Dunkirk, France, during the
Second World War between the
Allies and Germany. As part of
the Battle of France on the
Western Front, the Battle of
Dunkirk was the defence and
evacuation of British and allied
forces in Europe from 26 May–
4 June 1940
.
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Battle of Stalingard
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major
battle of World War II in which Nazi
Germany and its allies fought the
Soviet Union for control of the city of
Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the
eastern boundary of Europe.
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Battle of North Africa
During the Second World War,
the North African Campaign
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.
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Battle of Manila Navy
The Battle of Manila Bay took place on 1
May 1898, during the Spanish–American
War. The American Asiatic Squadron
under Commodore George Dewey
engaged and destroyed the Spanish Pacific
Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo.
The battle took place in Manila Bay in the
Philippines, and was the first major
engagement of the Spanish–American
War. The battle was one of the most
decisive naval battles in history and
marked the end of the Spanish colonial
period in Philippine history.
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Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was a World War II
engagement between German and Soviet
forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in
the Soviet Union during July and August
1943. The German offensive was codenamed Operation Citadel and led to one of
the largest armoured clashes in history, the
Battle of Prokhorovka. The German
offensive was countered by two Soviet
counter-offensives, Operation Polkovodets
Rumyantsev and Operation Kutuzov. For
the Germans, the battle represented the
final strategic offensive they were able to
mount in the east. For the Soviets, the
victory gave the Red Army the strategic
initiative for the rest of the war.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing
In August 1945, during the final
stage of the Second World War,
the United States dropped
atomic bombs on the Japanese
cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. The two bombings,
which killed at least 129,000
people, remain the only use of
nuclear weapons for warfare in
history
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