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The Royal Air Force

The London “Tube”: Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz

Now Britain Is All Alone!

North Africa

Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Biggest Mistake

Operation Barbarossa: June 22, 1941  3,000,000 German soldiers.  3,400 tanks.

Great Britain $31 billion Soviet Union $11 billion France $ 3 billion China $1.5 billion Other European $500 million South America $400 million The amount totaled: $48,601,365,000 U. S. Lend-Lease Act, 1941

Pearl Harbor

The U.S. Declares War FDR signs the declaration of war against Japan

Battle of Stalingrad: Winter of German ArmyRussian Army 1,011,500 men1,000,500 men 10,290 artillery guns13,541 artillery guns 675 tanks894 tanks 1,216 planes1,115 planes

The North Africa Campaign: The Battle of El Alamein, 1942 Gen. Ernst Rommel, The “Desert Fox” Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery (“Monty”) “Operation Torch”

The Italian Campaign [“Operation Torch”]  Allies plan assault on weakest Axis area - North Africa - Nov May 1943  George S. Patton leads American troops  Germans trapped in Tunisia - surrender over 275,000 troops.

The Allies Liberate Rome: June 4, 1944

Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation Overlord”]

D-Day ( 6, 1944) D-Day (June 6, 1944)

D-Day (June 6, 1944)

Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944 ) Higgins Landing Crafts German Prisoners

July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot Major Claus von Stauffenberg