World War II

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607 Moments
1944
End of the Siege of Leningrad
HMS Janus sunk off Anzio
Allies Launch Operation Shingle at Anzio
Red Army Advances Toward Baltic Countries
First Battle of Monte Cassino begins
Eisenhower assumes command in London
First Victory Ship SS United Victory
Count Ciano and Mussolini's Italy
British forces take Maungdaw, Burma
Anti-fascist strikes in northern Italy
Major Gregory Pappy Boyington shot down
1943
Battle of Ortona
Battle of Arawe
Battle of Arawe
Tehran Conference
Battle of Tarawa
Soviets liberate Kiev, Ukraine
Allies land on Bougainville
Moscow Conference
Sobibor uprising
Sobibor uprising
Salerno Beachhead Under Threat from German Attacks
Mussolini Rescued by German SS
British Troops Enter Bari in Italy
German Occupation of Rome
Allied Forces Land in Italy During WWII
Eisenhower Announces Italy's Surrender to Allies
503rd Parachute Regiment Lands in Nadzab
Italy Signs Secret Armistice and Exits War