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The Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked Germany on the coast of Normandy, France. Over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe. The Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. This is important because Operation Overlord saw the largest naval assault in history in an effort to gain a hold in Nazi-occupied France. D-Day was the beginning of the end for not only the Germans but Hitler most of all.

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The United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. The American success at Midway was a major victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Battle of Midway brought the Pacific naval forces of Japan and the United States to approximate parity and marked a turning point of the military struggle between the two countries.

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The operation was opposed by German forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno. After six weeks, the Anzio campaign had reached a bloody stalemate. The Germans had contained the Allied invasion force but lacked the strength to push it back into the sea. The Allies were unable to drive forward from their bridgehead, and the Germans were without the means to push the invaders back into the sea.

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Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles in the Second World War. The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river, which bore the name of the Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. The Battle of Stalingrad was won by the Soviet Union against a German offensive that attempted to take the city of Stalingrad. This is important because it was the first time that the Hitler regime admitted a military defeat, which also made it the psychological turning point of the war for both Germany and the Soviet Union.

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The Battle of the Atlantic was a war between the Allied and German forces for control of the Atlantic Ocean. The Allies needed to keep the vital flow of men and supplies going between North America and Europe, where they could be used in the fighting, while the Germans wanted to cut these supply lines. The outcome of the battle was victory for Allies. This is important because The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous battle of the Second World War and one in which Canada played a central role.

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The North African Campaign fought between the Allies and Axis powers. Nearly three years later, this campaign resulted in the first major Allied victory of the Second World War. This is important because the North African campaign was a watershed for the Western Allies. For the first time in the war, they had decisively defeated the Axis, and especially the Germans, on the ground.

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The decisive air and sea battle of World War II that crippled the Japanese Combined Fleet permitted the U.S. invasion of the Philippines, and reinforced the Allies' control of the Pacific. This is significant because the Japanese lost most of their remaining sea power and ability to defend the Philippines.

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A major battle between the United States and Japan in World War II. In the battle of the war the United States had gone on the offensive and attacked the Japanese.

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The battle ended the proposed Japanese sea-borne invasion of Port Moresby. When they attacked the American fleet at Midway the next month, the weakened Japanese were met by a stronger Allied fleet than they had expected, and were defeated. This was the end of Japanese naval power in the Pacific.

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Bataan Death March Marker, Gov. J.J. Linao National Road, Bagac, Bataan, Philippines

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A march in the Philippines of some 66 miles that 76,000 prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese military to endure. Four months later, the American troops on the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines surrendered to the Japanese.