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End of Battle of Stalingrad
The soldiers fought in the Soviet Union since June 1941. For weeks the Germans went in on Stalingrad, taking over houses. By the end of the battle, defending Stalingrad, the Soviet Union lost 1,100,000 soliders. From this point on the Soviet began to move westward toward Germany.
End of Operation Torch
The Operation Torch was an invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa, commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Landing in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers in Norther Africa, were about 107, 000 Allied troops, mostly American. Moving eastward from this point they became victorious to Afrika Korps led by General Erwin Rommel.
Victory in Battle of the Atlantic
D-Day
The Allies gathered a force of nearly 3 million British, American, and Canadian troops, with a great deal of military equipment and supplies. The plan was to attack Normany in northern France. The code-name for the invasion was Operation Overload, which shortly after midnight, the 3 divisions parachuted down behind German lines followed by thousands upon thousands of seaborne soliders.
Liberation of Majdanek
The Soviets entered Majadenk in Poland seeing that they didn't enter a concentration camp, but a "murder house" instead.
Liberation of France
French soliders set Paris free from the Germans.
Capture of Aachen
Americans captured the first German town Aacehn in October 1944.
End of Battle of the Bulge
The Germans moved westward capturing 120 American GIs near Malmedy. Herding them into fields, the Germans killed them with machine guns and pistols.
End of Italian Campaign
VE-Day
The Allies celebrated "Victory in Europe Day" when the war in Europe was finally over. General Eisenhower accepted the surrender of the Third Reich.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -General and the Supreme Commander of United States Forces in
Europe.
George Patton - Leader of the third army that reached the Seine river south of Paris to liberate France.
Harry S. Truman - Became nation's 33rd President after Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945.