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May 13, 2024 · The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico as part of the U.S. government program called the Manhattan Project. The United States then used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 6 and 9, respectively, killing about 210,000 people.
1 day ago · The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
May 6, 2024 · In the early morning of 6 June 1942, 500 Japanese soldiers landed on Kiska, one of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. They took the only inhabitants of the island, a ten man (and six dog) US Navy Weather Detachment by complete surprise and quickly took control of American soil.
May 11, 2024 · What aircraft did Japan use in suicide kamikaze attacks in WW2? The answer is quite a number of the aircraft they had available. But what may come as a surprise to many is that Japan built a specially designed aircraft for kamikaze attacks called the Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi ('sabre').
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May 3, 2024 · The D-Day landings and the subsequent Normandy Campaign were fought between the forces of the Allies and the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany. On the Allied side, 12 nations were represented in the invasion force. The predominant players were the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
4 days ago · At the heart of WW2‘s unprecedented death toll was the central role played by authoritarian regimes with aggressive expansionist and racist ideologies – Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis openly advocated for "living space" for the German people by conquering Eastern Europe and subjugating or exterminating its ...
