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The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It was the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces -
Japanese forces launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii. The assault began at 7:55 a.m. local time, resulting in the destruction of numerous ships and over 300 airplanes, which drew the United States into World War II -
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea -
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II -
The Battle of Okinawa (April 1–June 22, 1945), code-named Operation Iceberg, was the largest, last, and one of the bloodiest, amphibious battles of WWII in the Pacific. US forces secured the strategic island to use as a base for invading mainland Japan, but faced intense, 82-day fighting and kamikaze attacks. The battle resulted in over 240,000 combined military and civilian casualties