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Nothing like it had ever been tried in modern times – so how successful was D-Day for the Allies? The largest opposed amphibious landing in history would be launched in Normandy on June 6th 194...
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The most important Allied conference of the war was held in Tehran, Iran between 28 November and 1 December. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met together for the very first time, and key issues lik...
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William Walker was a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain and confronted German warplanes over Britain. Read his eye witness testimony.
http://ww2history.com/testimony/Western/Battle_of_Britain_pilot
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Auschwitz accepted its first Polish prisoners on 14 June 1940. It was a surprising beginning for a place later so associated with the Holocaust, because the original purpose of Auschwitz was not to...
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In May 1940, on Dunkirk beach and in the area nearby, more than 300,000 Allied troops were trapped against the sea, with the Germans closing in on them. It would take what Churchill called a miracl...
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