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| 1942 August 7 |
| | | US and Japanese forces begin a violent six-month struggle for Guadalcanal, one of the Solomon Islands | |
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| 1942 September 13 |
| | | A desperate battle begins for the city of Stalingrad, with house-to-house fighting between Germans and Russians | |
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| 1942 October 23 |
| | | Montgomery launches the second battle of El Alamein against Rommel | |
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| 1942 November 25 |
| | | Soviet tanks complete the encirclement of 20 German divisions at Stalingrad | |
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| 1943 January 31 |
| | | With much of the German Sixth Army destroyed, the survivors led by Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrender at Stalingrad | |
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| 1943 February 9 |
| | | After a six-month battle, US troops win the Pacific base of Guadalcanal from the Japanese | |
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| 1944 March-June |
| | | William Slim secures the first Allied victories in the Burma campaign, at Imphal and Kohima in northeast India | |
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| 1944 October 25 |
| | | Victory over Japan in a massive 2-day battle at Leyte Gulf assures US recovery of Philippines | |
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| 1945 April 5 |
| | | US troops land on the island of Okinawa, only 300 miles from the main islands of Japan | |
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| 1945 June 22 |
| | | After a ferocious three-month battle, Okinawa is in US hands | |
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