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World War II interactives
Interactive maps
Choose your interactive guide to World War II from the campaigns, battles and attacks listed below...
D-Day interactive
Check out an interactive guide to 6th June 1944: The Normandy Landings also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord - D-Day. D-Day interactive
Barbarossa interactive
More about Operation Barbarossa, which began on June 22nd 1941, when German troops crossed the border into Russia. Barbarossa interactive
El-Alamein interactive
Take a closer look at the Battle of El Alamein, the gruelling fight which lasted from October 23rd to November 3rd 1942. El-Alamein interactive
Pearl Harbor interactive
View Pearl Harbor interactive - the events of 7th December 1941, which brought the U.S.A into World War II. Pearl Harbor interactive
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Fact
Pilot Officer John Noel Isaac of 600 Squadron was the first British military subject to die in World War II, after crashing his Bristol Blenheim fighter-bomber in Hendon, near London, one hour and fifty minutes after Britain declared war on Germany.
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Flashpoints
Turning points in the war included the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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Figureheads
Focus on the leaders of the axis powers and the allied countries in World War II
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D-Day
The story of the Allied forces invasion aimed at liberating Europe from the Nazis
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Living with War
When the Blitz came to Britain in September 1940, the bombs fell like rain
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The Troops
The Allied Forces were made up of around 20 million men from across the globe
More on the Troops in WW II