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The invasion of Poland otherwise called the September Campaign, Poland Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany
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800+ fishing boats and other little ships including some piloted by civilians rescued approximately 338,000 soldiers over nine days
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A swift, decisive campaign using Blitzkrieg tactic through the Ardennes forest to bypass the maginot line
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British civilians endured both day and night attacks the reflected prewar air power theories
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This is a decisive turning point in WW2 , crushing Germany advances into the USSR, and stoping the Axis of vital resources
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This was a prolonged, difficult allied invasion of Italy during WW2, starting the Sicily (Operation Husky) and the moving to the mainland, aiming to knock Italy out of the war and divert German troops
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Allied forces launched the massive D-Day invasion of Normandy, France; in the largest seaborne invasion in history
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A failed allied plan by British Field Marshal Montgomery to seize key bridges in the German- occupied Netherlands with airborne drops
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A surprise attack through the Ardennes forest to split allied forces and reached the port of antwerp
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This is the formal acceptance of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender