Several battles occurred, which you will learn a little about later, including but not limited to, the Battle of Iwo Jima, the Battle of Anzio, the Battle of the Bulge, the D-Day Invasion, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.  The battle of Leyte Gulf is one of the more flight based battles. “The aerial and naval battle conducted as Allied forces invaded the Philippines began with Leyte Island on October 20.”

     Some of the most famous figures involved in the war were; Benito Mussolini, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Charles de Gaulle, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Goebbels. Many of these figures were the Presidents and Dictators that were in charge during the war.

Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return.”

five minutes before impact

he whistles a dry tune

Later he will say

that the whole blooming sky

went up like an apricot ice.

Later he will laugh and tremble

at such a surrender, for the eye

of his belly saw Marilyn's skirts

fly over her head for ever

On the river bank,

bees drizzle over

hot white rhododendrons

Later she will walk

the dust, a scarlet girl

with her whole stripped skin

at her heel, stuck like an old

shoe sole or mermaid's tail

Later she will lie down

in the flecked black ash

where the people are become

as lizards or salamanders

and, blinded, she will complain

Mother you are late. So late

Later in dreams he will look

down shrieking and see

ladybirds ladybirds

On Fifty-second Street

Uncertain and afraid

As the clever hopes expire

Of a low dishonest decade:

Waves of anger and fear

Circulate over the bright

And darkened lands of the earth,

Obsessing our private lives;

The unmentionable odour of death

Offends the September night.

Accurate scholarship can

Unearth the whole offence

From Luther until now

That has driven a culture mad,

Find what occurred at Linz,

What huge image made

A psychopathic god:

I and the public know

What all schoolchildren learn,

Those to whom evil is done

Do evil in return.

Exiled Thucydides knew

All that a speech can say

About Democracy,

And what dictators do,

The elderly rubbish they talk

To an apathetic grave;

Analysed all in his book,

The enlightenment driven away,

The habit-forming pain,

Mismanagement and grief:

We must suffer them all again.

Into this neutral air

Where blind skyscrapers use

Their full height to proclaim

The strength of Collective Man,

Each language pours its vain

Competitive excuse:

But who can live for long

In an euphoric dream;

Out of the mirror they stare,

Imperialism's face

And the international wrong.

Faces along the bar

Cling to their average day:

The lights must never go out,

The music must always play,

All the conventions conspire

To make this fort assume

The furniture of home;

Lest we should see where we are,

Lost in a haunted wood,

Children afraid of the night

Who have never been happy or good.

The windiest militant trash

Important Persons shout

Is not so crude as our wish:

What mad Nijinsky wrote

About Diaghilev

Is true of the normal heart;

For the error bred in the bone

Of each woman and each man

Craves what it cannot have,

Not universal love

But to be loved alone.

From the conservative dark

Into the ethical life

The dense commuters come,

Repeating their morning vow;

'I will be true to the wife,

I'll concentrate more on my work,'

And helpless governors wake

To resume their compulsory game:

Who can release them now,

Who can reach the dead,

Who can speak for the dumb?

All I have is a voice

To undo the folded lie,

The romantic lie in the brain

Of the sensual man-in-the-street

And the lie of Authority

Whose buildings grope the sky:

There is no such thing as the State

And no one exists alone;

Hunger allows no choice

To the citizen or the police;

We must love one another or die.

Defenseless under the night

Our world in stupor lies;

Yet, dotted everywhere,

Ironic points of light

Flash out wherever the Just

Exchange their messages:

May I, composed like them

Of Eros and of dust,

Beleaguered by the same

Negation and despair,

Show an affirming flame.”