Individual #World_War_II__World_War___Second_World_War  a war between the Allies (Australia Belgium Bolivia Brazil Canada China Colombia Costa-Rico Cuba Czechoslovakia Dominican-Republic El-Salvador Ethiopia Greece Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Iran Iraq Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New-Zealand Nicaragua Norway Panama Philippines Poland South-Africa United-Kingdom US USSR Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania Bulgaria Finland Germany Hungary Italy Japan Rumania Slovakia Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
  instance of:  world_war
  part:  Bataan__Corregidor  the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945
  part:  Battle_of_Britain  the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it
  part:  battle_of_the_Ardennes_Bulge__Battle_of_the_Bulge__Ardennes_counteroffensive  battle during World War II; in December 1945 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest that caught the Allies by surprise
  part:  battle_of_the_Bismarck_Sea__Bismarck_Sea  World War II naval battle; Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March 1943
  part:  battle_of_the_Coral_Sea__Coral_Sea  a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers
  part:  Dunkerque__Dunkirk  a city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire
  part:  battle_of_El_Alamein__El_Alamein__Al_Alamayn  in World War II (1942); a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel
  part:  Eniwetok  World War II (February 1944); American infantry landed and captured a Japanese stronghold
  part:  battle_of_Guadalcanal__Guadalcanal  a battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces
  part:  invasion_of_Iwo__Iwo__Iwo_Jima  a bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)
  part:  Kwajalein  World War II (January 1944); American forces landed and captured a Japanese air base
  part:  Leyte_invasion__Leyte__Leyte_Island  a battle in World War II; the return of US troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October 1944; first use of Kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese
  part:  battle_of_Midway__Midway  naval battle of World War II (June 1942); land and carrier-based American planes decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands
  part:  Okinawa_campaign__Okinawa  a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting US marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans
  part:  battle_of_the_Philippine_Sea__Philippine_Sea  a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the US fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte
  part:  Saipan  US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944; it was an important air base until the end of World War II
  part:  Salerno  a battle in World War II; the port was captured by US troops in September 1943
  part:  WWII_battle_of_the_Somme__Somme__Somme_River__battle_of_the_Somme  battle of World War II (1944)
  part:  Tarawa-Makin__Tarawa__Makin  battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); US Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting
  part:  battle_of_Wake_Island__battle_of_Wake  in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred US marines

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