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PEARL HARBOR!!!
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. -
WAR PLANS
Prime Minister Churchill arrived at the White House and spent the next three weeks working out war plans with President Roosevelt and his advisors. -
WAR PLANS
By the end of their meeting, Roosevelt and Churchill had formed "a very strong affection, which grew with our years of comradeship." -
87 Ships
The first four months of 1942, Germans sank 87 ships off the Atlantic Shore. -
Offense!
Summer of 1942, German took the offensive in the southern Soviet Union. Hitler hoped to capture Soviet oil fields in the Caucaus Mountains. -
General Erwin Rommel
107,000 Allied troops, the great majority of them being Americans, landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers on North America. From there they sped eastward, chasing the Afrika Korps led by General Erwin Rommel, the legendary Desert Fox. -
Liberty Ships
140 Liberty ships were produced each month. Launching of Allied ships began to outnumber sinkings. -
Italian Campaign
Italian campaign got off to a good start with the capture of Sicily in the summer of 1943. -
"Bloody Anzio"
The "Bloody Anzio" battle lasted four months, until the end of May, and left about 25,000 Allied and 30,000 Axis causalties. -
D-DAY!
Banking on a forecast for clearing skies, Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for the D-Day invasion.
