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The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It was the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces.
Dates: Jul 10, 1940 – Oct 31, 1940 -
Hawaiian time (6:18 p.m. GMT) on December 7, 1941. ... The base was attacked by 353 fighters, level and dive bombers, and torpedo bombers -
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Dates: Jun 4, 1942 – Jun 7, 1942 -
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in southern Russia.
Dates: Jul 17, 1942 – Feb 2, 1943 -
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Dates: Feb 19, 1945 – Mar 26, 1945 -
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
Dates: Mar 26, 1945 – Sep 7, 1945