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Battles and operations of World War II involving the United States
- Allied invasion of SicilyThe Allied invasion of Sicily, known formally as Operation Husky, began on the night of the 9th and the 10th of July 1943 with one of the largest amphibious operations in the history of World War II. More than 26 beaches stretched along…
- Battle of Guilin–LiuzhouThe Battle of Guilin-Liuzhou put two of southern China's most storied cities in the crosshairs of the largest Japanese land offensive of the entire Second Sino-Japanese War. On the 1st of November, when Japanese forces began their assault…
- Operation OverlordOperation Overlord was the codename assigned to the Allied liberation of German-occupied Western Europe, beginning on the 6th of June 1944. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on that single day. A 1,200-plane airborne…
- Siegfried Line campaignThe Siegfried Line campaign, a phase of the Western European war, began in the shadow of one of history's most dramatic reversals. German forces had been routed during the Allied breakout from Normandy, and Allied armies swept across…
- North African campaignThe North African campaign of World War II began on the 11th of June 1940 and did not end until the 13th of May 1943 - nearly three years of brutal fighting across some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth. Desert, heat, and vast…
- Operation TorchOperation Torch began at dawn on the 8th of November 1942, when Allied forces waded ashore on three separate coastlines across French North Africa at the same moment. The question hanging over every planner in London and Washington was not…
- Western Allied invasion of GermanyThe Western Allied invasion of Germany reached its decisive turning point on the 22nd of March 1945, when American troops crossed the Rhine under a bright moon with almost no resistance at Nierstein. Seven startled German soldiers…
- Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaignThe Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign of 1942 began not with a military objective but with an act of revenge. On the 18th of April 1942, sixteen American B-25 bombers struck Tokyo, Nagoya, and Yokohama. Most of those planes, running out of fuel,…
- Battle of HengyangThe Battle of Hengyang lasted 47 days in the summer of 1944, and when it ended, Japanese casualties far exceeded the total number of Chinese troops who had defended the city. That fact alone tells you something extraordinary happened here.…
- Operation Ichi-GoOperation Ichi-Go was, by one historian's reckoning, the largest military operation ever carried out in the history of the Japanese army. Half a million troops, a hundred thousand horses, fifteen hundred artillery pieces, eight hundred…