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3 giorni fa · Receive medals, promotions, campaign ribbons and accolades from higher echelons with your victories! You will find yourself immersed in the campaign and a stand-alone battle will never feel the same again.
14 ore fa · At the end of the battle, the U.S. lost the carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann. 307 Americans had been killed, including Major General Clarence L. Tinker, Commander, 7th Air Force, who personally led a bomber strike from Hawaii against the retreating Japanese forces on 7 June.
2 giorni fa · Nearly four million Italians served in the Italian Army during the Second World War and nearly half a million Italians (including civilians) lost their lives between June 1940 and May 1945. Fascist propaganda poster denouncing Allied bombings of Italian cities ("Here are the 'Liberators'!").
1 giorno fa · The Peninsular campaigns witnessed 60 major battles and 30 major sieges, more than any other of the Napoleonic conflicts, and lasted over 6 years, far longer than any of the others. France and her allies lost at least 91,000 killed in action and 237,000 wounded in the peninsula.
22 ore fa · Prologue to war. The European war presented the Japanese with tempting opportunities. After the Nazi attack on Russia in 1941, the Japanese were torn between German urgings to join the war against the Soviets and their natural inclination to seek richer prizes from the European colonial territories to the south.
3 giorni fa · Battle of Guadalcanal. U.S. Marines landing on Guadalcanal, August 1942. On July 6 the Japanese landed troops on Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomons, and began to construct an air base.
5 giorni fa · In Arkansas, Federal troops under Frederick Steele moved upon the Confederates and defeated them at Prairie Grove, near Fayetteville, on December 7, 1862—a victory that paved the way for Steele’s eventual capture of Little Rock the next September. American Civil War: Vicksburg Campaign.
