Battle of Stalingrad
The 1942-43 Volga battle that destroyed the German 6th Army and turned the European war on the Eastern Front.
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NNormandy landings
The 6 June 1944 cross-Channel landing that opened the long-delayed Western Front in France -- Overlord, not a war by itself.
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MBattle of Midway
The 4-7 June 1942 carrier battle that wrecked Japan's first-line carrier force and shifted the Pacific war.
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WBattle of Waterloo
The 18 June 1815 allied victory that ended the Hundred Days and Napoleon's return -- Wellington, Blucher, and a muddy ridge.
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BBattle of Britain
The 1940 air campaign in which the RAF denied Germany daylight control of southern England -- a prerequisite for any invasion scare, and a British memory engine.
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KBattle of Kursk
The 1943 German Citadel offensive against the Kursk bulge -- the last strategic German attack in the east -- and the Soviet counteroffensives that followed.
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IBattle of Inchon
The 15 September 1950 UN amphibious landing that cut KPA supply to the Pusan Perimeter and retook Seoul -- a tide-table gamble, not the end of the Korean War.
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TBattle of Tsushima
The 27-28 May 1905 fleet action in which Togo Heihachiro destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet -- a Korean-strait day that ended a war and recast Asian naval hierarchy.
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