The Japanese Emperor Hirohito proclaimed his surrender on August 15 and signed it on September 2, 1945, ending World War II. However, isolated militaries and peoples from Japan's far-flung forc ...
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Victory over Japan Day also recognized as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day commemorates the surrender of Imperial Japan in World War II, effectively ending the conflict. The term has ...
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The US launched two nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. Between 129,000 and 226,000 persons died in the two attacks, most of them civilians. In the last year of WWI ...
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The Normandy landings were the landing actions and related airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II's Operation Overlord on Tuesday, June 6, 1944. It was the most ...
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The landing operation of the associated attack of Provence (Southern France) on 15 August 1944 was codenamed Operation Dragoon (formerly Operation Anvil). The process was supposed to occur in conju ...
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The 1944 Soviet Byelorussian Strategic Offensive Operation was codenamed Operation Bagration; a military campaign fought in Soviet Byelorussia on the Eastern Front of World War II between 22 June a ...
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From January 22, 1944 (starting with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle) to June 5, 1944, the Battle of Anzio was fought in the Italian Campaign of World War II (ending with t ...
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During World War II's Italian Campaign, the Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Rome and Cassino) was a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the Axis-held Wint ...
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From 4 to 8 May 1942, the Action of the Coral Sea was a main naval combat between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and US and Australian naval and air forces. The combat, which took place in World ...
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The Battle of Singapore, also identified as the Fall of Singapore, took place during the Pacific War's Southeast Asian theatre, when Japan's Empire overtook the British stronghold of Singap ...
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The raid on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United States by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the marine base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, immediate ...
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During World War II, the Moscow Battle was a military operation that spanned a 600-kilometre (370-mile) stretch of the Eastern Front in two phases of strategically critical conflict. It took place ...
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