After two years of trying, RAF Bomber Command at last perfected the techniques to inflict mass casualties and devastation on an enemy city. Meanwhile, the US Eighth Air Force struggled to develop their own strategies.
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398 An Incontrovertible Fact
As the war turned against them, the Japanese attempted to create allies among the nations it occupied, declaring the independence of Burma and the Philippines, while the US embraced China as a peer of the main Allied powers, alongside the US, UK, and USSR.
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397 Pop Goes the Weasel
The Japanese come to the reluctant conclusion that they have to abandon Guadalcanal and northeastern New Guinea. US submarine warfare begins to take a toll, and Admiral Yamamoto is killed.
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396 The Battle of Kursk
The German offenive failed. Then it was the Soviets' turn.
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395 A Definitive Mistake
Adolf Hitler begins his long-delayed 1943 offensive against the USSR, which fizzles in a matter of days.
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