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On D-Day, June 6, 1944, an Allied force led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower launched the greatest amphibious invasion of all time against German defenses on the coast of Normandy, France.

Historian Daniel Martinez shows us the Pearl Harbor Historic Sites as well as other places in Honolulu that were affected by the devastating attack on December 7th, 1941. Visit the USS Arizona Memorial, step on board the Battleship Missouri.

Even men toughened by combat, were sickened by the sight of the horrors of Concentration Camps.

On December 7, 1941, Japanese airplanes strike the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II.

As in Poland, the blitzkrieg was violent, brutal and well executed.

On Sept 1, 1939, Hitler unleashed his blitzkrieg. "Our strength is in our quickness and in our brutality," he screamed, "Be hard. Be without mercy."

To the Nazis the depression was a source of great satisfaction.