The Nazi's last big ship was the Tirpitz and after is was destroyed Germany no longer had a Navy.

While chaos was brewing throughout the world, back in the U.S. the presidential campaign went on. Thomas E. Dewey went head to head with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in one of the closet election of the 1900's.

Nearly two years after leaving the Philippines General Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his promise and returned to the island to continue fighting. When he returned he brought 200,000 soldiers who landed on the island Leyte ready to fight.

To keep the U.S. progression of the war on track General MacArthur had an American task force raid the Peleliu Islands. The fight went on for several days as the Japanese stood their ground with strong counter attacks.

The world is finally hearing of the horrors from the Nazi Death Camps. Rabbis are marching on Capitol Hill pleading for Americans to help the Jews.


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Allied troops pushed out of German soil toward the Siegfried Line. This line is known as the West Wall around the city.

On the eastern coast of the Philippines, the Japanese sent four strike groups attacked U.S. Navy forces protecting MacArthur's troops.

Soviet and Polish troops team up and destroy Warsaw.

June of 1944 England has been assaulted by the B1 Buzz Bomb. But only did they know, the B2 was coming their way. This bomb was invulnerable to interception. Listen to find out what happened.