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  2. Banzai charge - Wikipedia

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    Japanese woodcut print depicting an infantry charge in the Russo-Japanese War. Banzai charge or Banzai attack (Japanese: バンザイ突撃 or 万歳突撃, romanized: banzai totsugeki) is the term that was used by the Allied forces of World War II to refer to Japanese human wave attacks and swarming staged by infantry units.

  3. Timeline of World War II (1944) - Wikipedia

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    6: Largest Banzai charge of the war: 4,300 Japanese troops are slaughtered on Saipan. 7: Soviet troops enter Vilnius, Lithuania. 9: After heavy resistance Caen , France, is liberated by the British troops on the left flank of the Allied advance.

  4. List of World War II battles - Wikipedia

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    A formation of Spitfires shortly before World War II. This is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period.

  5. World War II casualties - Wikipedia

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    World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]

  6. List of battles by casualties - Wikipedia

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    World War II: 280,120 Soviet casualties; German casualties unknown Battle of Aachen: 1944: World War II: 21,000: Gothic Line offensive 1944-1945 World War II: 92,000: Battle of Hürtgen Forest: 1944 –1945 World War II: 63,000 [143] Courland Pocket: 1944 –1945 World War II: 278,819: Battle of Leyte Gulf: 1944: World War II: 12,000 killed ...

  7. Battle of Saipan - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Saipan was an amphibious assault launched by the United States against the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II between 15 June and 9 July 1944. The initial invasion triggered the Battle of the Philippine Sea , which effectively destroyed Japanese carrier-based airpower , and the battle resulted in the ...

  8. Timeline of World War II (1943) - Wikipedia

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    Clockwise from top left: Battle of the Bismarck Sea, graves of U.S. Marines killed in the Battle of Tarawa, burning Allied ships after the air raid on Bari in Italy, Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto. This is a timeline of events that occurred during World War II in 1943.

  9. Bougainville campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Bougainville campaign was a series of land and naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan, named after the island of Bougainville, one of the Solomon Islands. It was part of Operation Cartwheel, the Allied grand strategy in the South Pacific.