D-Day June 6, 1944
Operation Overload
Allied invasion of Nazi controlled France
The assult was conducted in two phrases
an airborne assult landing on 24,000 British American, Canadian and Free French airborne troops shortly after midnight
an landing of Allied infantry and amored divisions on the cooast of france
The Atlantic Wall
An extesive system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the western coast of europe
Built as a defence noty a wall bascically just big arterrialy guns
goin acrosss the english channel
may 8 1945- VE Day Victory in Europe Day
Island Hopping
Miluitary stradighy that the Us used to take over the bigger islands and hoped over the less importan island and then the little islands supplys would get cut because the us had controll of the bigger islands
December 7, 1941-Philippines
75,000 American and Filipino POW'S to a POW camp
whas characied by physical abuse and murder
Battle of Corral Sea
The Battel of the coral sea was fought From May 4-8 1942
It was a major Navil Battle between the Japinise Navy and Allied navil and air forces from the united states and Austraila
the battle used mostly planes
Admiral Chester Nimitz
Battle of midwayFought between 4-7, 1942
United states as a strageic power in the Pacific and Believed a victory at Midway Island would do Just that
United states Navy Defencivly Deafeated the Japiniese Navy Attack agianst Midway island
Japans Navy suffered huge losses and there Navy was never the same agian.
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