Operation Plunder

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Script: Hoping to mirror the success of his surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto’s attack plan called for a three-phase assault on Midway, while a fourth phase would include an attack on the Aleutian islands off the coast of Alaska, intended to divert American naval assets away from Midway, just as his three-phase attack plan […]

Script: On October 20th of 1944, after American troops stormed ashore on the island of Leyte in the Pacific Theater, the landings intended to liberate the Philippines sparked a last-ditch effort by the Japanese to halt the American’s push for their home islands. Japan’s defensive response off the previously little known island of Leyte began […]

The Battle of Arnhem was a significant World War II battle fought from 17 to 26 September 1944, as part of Operation Market Garden, an ambitious Allied plan to end the war quickly by capturing key bridges in the Netherlands and advancing into Germany.

The 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln guided the Union Army and the American people through the Civil War, only to be assassinated one week after the end of the war. His personal life was plagued by mental health issues, including thoughts of suicide.

Script: Today, the island of Saipan is a sun-drenched tropical paradise in the Northern Mariana Island chain in the Central Pacific Ocean, but in the summer of 1944, one of the most fiercely contested battles of World War Two took place on the island of Saipan, a battle whose outcome marked a decisive turning point […]

Script: Born into a well-to-do middle class family on October 27th of 1858, Teddy Roosevelt’s father, Theodore Sr. came from a long line of Dutch merchants in Manhattan, while his mother, Martha Bullock of Georgia was considered by many to be the most beautiful women in a city then populated by more than half a […]

During WW2, merchant supply ships delivering desperate supplies to the Allies in Europe were forced to sail in convoys under Allied naval protection, until the German U-Boat menace could be defeated. Script: Before the bloody days of the First World War, the first German submarine, the U-1, made its initial sea trials by the end […]