World War II ( )
Players
Axis Expansion: Japan, Germany, Italy
Axis Powers 1942
1933 Hitler elected Chancellor of Germany 1939 Germany invades Poland; Italy invades Albania 1939 Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand declare war on Germany 1940 Italy joins Germany 1941 US & Britain declare war on Japan Germany declares war on US 1942 Air Attack on Germany Allied push into North Africa & Sicily Sept 1943 Italy surrenders June 1944 D-Day at Normandy May 1945 VE German surrenders Aug 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan Sept 1945 VJ Japan surrenders
Japanese Holdings
Allied Pacific Plan
Guadalcanal
Burials in Pacific
Marine Equipment
Peleliu
6 0 M M M o rt a r
Marine Artists Peleliu Night The Stare
Marine 1 st Division Patch
Humor in the Military
Bill Mauldin Stars & Stripes “I already got a Purple Heart. Just give me some aspirin!”
WWII Toll Total Deaths % Prewar Pop US 500,000.4 France 810, Germany 6,805, Russia 20,000, % Overall dead: 52,199,262