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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 3
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Early in the war, the Germans decide they need to guarantee access to the Norwegian port of Narvik to ensure their supplies of Swedish iron ore. The British, however, send destroyers to up-end the German plan.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 18
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Fresh from victory in North Africa, the Allies successfully invade the island of Sicily, staging an eventual Italian withdrawal from the war.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 28
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Both political and military expediency were factors in the return of the French capital to its people.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 12
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For the first time since Americans entered the war, Marines face Japanese infantrymen at Guadal Canal. In the jungles, two powerful armies clash in a six month battle that claims nearly 30,000 lives.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 6
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After British forces withdrew in defeat from Greece to the island of Crete in early 1941, they were soon fighting German invasion armies again. This time, 5,000 of Hitler's elite paratroopers landed to complete their conquest in the Mediterranean.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 15
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Erwin Rommel battles Allied forces in North Africa in 1942.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 9
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During a two-hour surprise attack on the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Japanese navy pilots score a near-complete victory.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 21
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Bloody fighting erupts on a group of tiny Pacific islands in November 1943.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 24
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As the United States prepared for the invasion of the Philippines, scheduled for late 1944, the tiny Palau Islands had to be taken first.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 33
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The December 1944 battle pitting American forces against German Panzer divisions in the Ardennes Forest.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 31
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American B-29 high-altitude bomber attacks Japan near the end of World War II.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 37
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In 1945, Soviet and American troops press Hitler's armies from the west and the east, culminating in the fall of Berlin.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 32
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The Battle of the Gothic Line in 1944.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 39
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The development of the B-17 bomber, which allowed American planes to reach inside Germany and bomb its cities.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 36
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Kamikaze pilots guard the island of Okinawa from American forces.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 34
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English
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American forces landing on the shores of Iwo Jima encounter Japanese combatants willing to fight to the death.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 40
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U-boats posed the deadliest threat to Allied convoys traveling the Atlantic.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 38
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Heavily armed vessels disguised as ordinary cargo ships patrolled allied waters, sinking supply boats and stealing their content.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 35
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German forces retreat across the Rhine on the Remagen bridge near the close of the war.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 17
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The Japanese meet resistance from British forces as they advance through Burma to take India in 1944.
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