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Salerno (Operation Avalanche, 9–17 September 1943): the Allied landings in Italy, the German counterattack and the fight for the beachhead.
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Dunkirk 1940: how 338,226 Allied troops were evacuated from France in Operation Dynamo — the full story, casualties, commanders and maps.
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The Battle of Midway (4–7 June 1942) was the decisive US naval victory that sank four Japanese carriers and turned the Pacific War.
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Operation Mincemeat was a 1943 British deception in which a corpse carrying forged papers misled Germany about the invasion of Sicily.
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Blitzkrieg describes Germany’s fast combined-arms offensives of 1939–1941 — tanks, aircraft and radio working together to break through.
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Dive bombing meant diving steeply at a target to drop bombs accurately. It shaped the Stuka, the Dauntless and Midway in 1942.
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Guerrilla warfare is irregular war by small mobile groups: ambush, sabotage and retreat, from Spain in 1808 to Vietnam and beyond.
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Total war mobilises a whole society — economy, population and industry — against the enemy. From Sherman to Hiroshima, how it works.
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Thomas Kinkaid commanded the U.S. Seventh Fleet under MacArthur and led the Allied naval force at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.
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Douglas MacArthur commanded the Southwest Pacific in WWII, accepted Japan’s surrender in 1945, and led UN forces in Korea until 1951.