The Japanese Emperor Hirohito proclaimed his surrender on August 15 and signed it on September 2, 1945, ending World War II. However, isolated mili ...read more
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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 ...read more
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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 attack ...read more
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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 O ...read more
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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 ...read more
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The 1944 Soviet Byelorussian Strategic Offensive Operation was codenamed Operation Bagration; a military campaign fought in Soviet Byelorussia on t ...read more
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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 t ...read more
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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 ...read more
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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 ...read more
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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' ...read more
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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 ...read more
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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 ...read more
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