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From Aug 23, 1942 to Feb 2, 1943 a substantial turning point in the war for the Soviet Union defending the city of Stalingrad and was a reverse in momentum that marked a turn in power during the war for Russia.
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Operation torch is the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa during WW2 that managed to snag a victory in North Africa and set the table for the U.S. to fight the Nazi German troops.
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Just after midnight Allied airborne troops began dropping behind enemy lines. Their job was to sabotage the German forces primary support systems like railroad lines and other preventive methods. Just a few hours later troops stormed the beach of Europe and faced 4,700 out of 35,000 were killed, wounded, or missing. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima took place on the island of Iwo Jima approximately 750 miles off the coast of Japan. The island had three military airfields that the U.S. wanted to capture to use to invade mainland Japan. While its believed that only about 200 of the 21,000 stationed soldiers on the island were killed but almost 7,000 Marines lost their lives on the island.
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On August 6, 1945 the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy on Hiroshima at 8:15 AM killing around 105,000 people and devastating the country. Even though Little boy was dropped on Japan they still refused surrender. To get the Japanese armed forces to surrender on August 9, 1945 11:02 AM The U.S unleashed another atomic bomb named Fat Man on Nagasaki killing 55,000.