Madison Patrick WW2 Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. A battle that the Luftwaffe went on nightly bombing raids.
  2. 6. A surprise attack on the United States Navy.
  3. 10. An air raid on the Japanese by the United States not long after Pearl Harbor.
  4. 11. A major battle that the United States marine corps and navy landed on and captured an island from the Japanese army.
  5. 14. Germanys military strategy that also means “lightning war”.
  6. 15. A battle fought in 1943 that had six months of fighting and the Japanese lost 24,000 soldiers.
Down
  1. 1. One of the largest naval battles of World War II with over 200,000 naval personnel involved.
  2. 2. A name for the early months of World War II when no land operations were undertaken by the Allies or the Germans.
  3. 3. This battle caused so much damage to the Japanese that they had to cancel their attack of Port Moresby.
  4. 4. The last major battle of World War II and one of the bloodiest battles.
  5. 7. During this battle German tanks broke through weak American defenses.
  6. 8. This battle turned the tide of war in the Pacific and the American pilots destroyed 332 Japanese planes.
  7. 9. During this bombing the United States dropped two nuclear weapons on Japanese cities.
  8. 12. Battle fought between the Germans and the British and Hitler called off his attacks.
  9. 13. The Japanese forced 76,000 captured Allied soldiers to march about 80 miles.