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1 day ago · World War II had begun. World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). It was the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in human ...
4 days ago · D-Day, June 6, 1944, was part of the larger Operation Overlord and the first stages of the Battle of Normandy, France (also referred to as the Invasion of Normandy) during World War II. It was the culmination of the Allied powers strategy for the war and a multinational effort. The success of the D-Day invasion facilitated the opening of the ...
1 day ago · World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, participated in the conflict, and many invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between ...
5 days ago · Ve rda Clifford Fankhouser who called Wetzel County, WV home, boarded a LST with the 61st Medical Battalion on June 2, 1944 to take part in Operation Overlord, the invasion of Northern Europe. He had been thoroughly trained as a medic able to rescue, recover, administer first aid and care for the wounded under the direst combat conditions.
3 days ago · 1861 Skirmish at Arlington Mills, Virginia. 1861 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange. 1862 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Virginia (11,165 casualties) 1862 African Slave Trade Treaty Act: Bilateral treaty between the US and UK abolishing the slave trade in all US possessions.
2 days ago · Battle of Britain, during World War II, the successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force (Luftwaffe) from July through September 1940, after the fall of France. Victory for the Luftwaffe in the air battle would have exposed Great Britain to invasion by the German army, which ...
4 days ago · George Walton Lucas Jr. was born on May 14,1944 in Modesto, California. He spent his childhood fascinated with comic books, especially “Buck Rogers” and “Flash Gordon.”. He spent his teenage years bored with the tedium of routine school days and teachers. Car racing was the only excitement that George Lucas was allowed.
