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This battle ended on February 2nd, 1943. It was fought between Germany and the Soviet Union. It is considered one of the greatest and deadliest battles of WW2, with around 800,000 Axis casualties, around 1,100,000 Soviet casualties, and around 40,000 civilian casualties. This battle marked a turning point in the war.
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Operation Overlord is often called D-Day. In total over 19,000 soldiers died. Dwight Eisenhower wrote a speech to the soldiers for D-Day:
Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. -
Poem:
On their bellies in the sand
These boys grew into men.
Fighting in a foreign land,
An infernal hellish den. Shells explode and bullets hiss;
Above, Suribachi looms.
Scores are touched by death's dark kiss
With each hot bomb that booms. Taking fire in bloodied sands
From foe who will never quit.
Commitment stills their shaking hands,
As fear evolves to grit. Inch by inch they take this slope,
Many a good man will die.
With each shot they share a hope-
To see the Stars and Stripes fly. -
On the morning of August 6th, 1945, and American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It took 43 seconds for the bomb to hit the ground. At least 80,000 people died instantly, people within half-a mile were vaporized instantly. Three days after Hiroshima was bombed the U.S. bombed Nagasaki, at least 240,000 residents died. Japan Surrendered sometime between the 10th-and-15th of August 1945
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The Nuremberg Trial lasted from November 1945 to October 1946. The tribunal found nineteen individual defendants guilty and sentenced them to punishments that ranged from death by hanging to fifteen years of imprisonment. This was the very first international war crimes tribunal in history. It is important because it revealed the true extent of German atrocities and it held some of the most politically important and high-ranking Nazis accountable for the crimes they committed.
