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Apr 5, 2024 · National Park Service - Battle of the Philippine Sea (Apr. 05, 2024) Battle of the Philippine Sea, (June 19–20, 1944), naval battle of World War II between the Japanese Combined Fleet and the U.S. Fifth Fleet. Known as “the greatest carrier battle of the war,” it accompanied the U.S. landing on Saipan and ended in a complete U.S. victory.
Apr 8, 2024 · Battle of Leyte Gulf. U.S. troops landing on Leyte Island in the Philippines during World War II. By autumn 1944 the Japanese had been dislodged from many key outposts in the southwest and central Pacific, and other Japanese-controlled islands had been allowed to wither on the vine. The United States capitalized on the success of its “island ...
1 day ago · In 1995 Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the Vietnam War: as many as 2,000,000 civilians on both sides and some 1,100,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters. The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died.
Apr 9, 2024 · Claus, Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (born November 15, 1907, Jettingen, Germany—died July 21, 1944, Berlin) was a German army officer who, as the chief conspirator of the July Plot, carried out an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Learn about the July Plot of 1944, in which Claus, Count Schenk von Stauffenberg, and others ...
Apr 8, 2024 · World War II. Władysław Sikorski (born May 20, 1881, Tuszów Narodowy, Poland, Austria-Hungary—died July 4, 1943, Gibraltar) was a Polish soldier and statesman who led Poland ’s government in exile during World War II. Born and educated in Austrian Poland, Sikorski served in the Austrian army. In 1908 he founded a secret Polish military ...
1 day ago · Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [g] [h] [i] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [d] 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Rudolf Franz Höss (born November 25, 1900, Baden-Baden, Germany—died April 16, 1947, Auschwitz [Oświęcim], Poland) was a German soldier and Nazi partisan who served as commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex (1940–45) during a period when as many as 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 inmates perished there. After ...
