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The only member of Congress that did not agree to conduct war against Japan was Jeanette Rankin, Representative from Montana 23 sets of brothers died aboard the USS Arizona
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The last American ship lost in the Battle of Midway was the USS Yorktown.
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Rommel was also called "Desert Fox" for his ability to "sniff" out his enemies
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-Marines called the engagement in Savo Island The Five Sitting Ducks. The Japanse fleet sank the USS Astoria, Vicennes, Quincy, Chicago, and the HMS Canberra. -The Japanese called Guadalcanal Death Island or Starvation Island
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1077th anti-aircraft regiment was made up entirely of young women, some not long out of high school. With just anti-aircraft guns they held off the Germans for two days destroying 83 tanks, 15 vehicles, 14 aircrafts, and 3 battalions.
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-German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel was absent from the invasion because he was celebrating his wife's birthday in Germany -The Allies made inflatable tanks and set them up in England across from the Pas de Calais to fool the Germans into thinking the invasion was happening somewhere else
