Curated playlist
Battles and operations of World War II involving the United States
- Allied invasion of SicilyA corpse helped Allied forces invade Sicily in 1943. Fake papers on it pointed German forces toward Greece.
- Battle of Guilin–LiuzhouOnly 20,000 Chinese troops defended Guilin when Japan attacked on the 1st of November. The city fell after ten days.
- Operation OverlordStorms nearly stopped the D-Day invasion of Normandy before it began.
- Siegfried Line campaignAllied armies raced across France so fast in 1944 that they ran out of fuel.
- North African campaignGerman commanders in North Africa read a US attaché's secret reports.
- Operation TorchOperation Torch landed Allied troops in 1942 without knowing if French defenders would fight.
- Western Allied invasion of GermanySeven German soldiers surrendered at Nierstein, then paddled themselves back across the Rhine.
- Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaignThe Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign of 1942 began as revenge for the Doolittle Raid.
- Battle of HengyangChinese troops held the city of Hengyang for 47 days in 1944. Japanese losses topped the defenders' whole force.
- Operation Ichi-GoJapan's 1944 Operation Ichi-Go sent half a million troops across China. Chinese defenses still crumbled within weeks.