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The Higgins boats broke the gridlock on the ship-to-shore movement.
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TIt lasted till 1945. he six-year long Battle started on the 3rd with the sinking of liner "Athenia" by "U-30" northwest of Ireland. She was mistaken for an armed merchant cruiser, and her destruction led the Admiralty to believe unrestricted submarine warfare had been launched.
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It lasted till May 13, 1943. It was the allies first victory.
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It lasted till June 4, 1942. Fought near the Central Pacific island of Midway, is considered the decisive battle of the war in the Pacific.
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It lasted till Feb. 2, 1943. The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point in World War Two in Europe. The battle at Stalingrad bled the German army dry in Russia and after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat.
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After the Battle of Midway, the United States launched a counter-offensive strike known as "island-hopping," establishing a line of overlapping island bases, as well as air control. The idea was to capture certain key islands, one after another, until Japan came within range of American bombers.
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Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target.
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It lasted till January 25, 1945. As the Allies attempted to penetrate across the western border of Germany in late 1944, the Germans tried one last gambit to reverse their fortunes. Operation “Watch on the Rhine” was intended to split British and US forces in northern France.
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It lasted till March 26, 1945. Iwo Jima, which means Sulfur Island, was strategically important as an air base for fighter escorts supporting long-range bombing missions against mainland Japan.
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It lasted till June 21, 1945. Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army.
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On August 6, 1945, the United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city, killing tens of thousands of civilians.
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It lasted till October 26, 1944. Piolts who committed suicide by crashing their planes into shot to attempt to sink them.
