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Eighty years ago Eisenhower is appointed supreme commander of Overlord acknowledging US primacy in the war effort

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Eighty years ago this week the allies make only slow headway against the Germans in the Ukraine and in Italy

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Eighty years ago this week Turkey fails to rise to Churchill's bait

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Eighty years ago this week Stalin receives the tribute of George VI

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Eighty years ago this week Stalin begins to reshape post-war Europe

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Eighty years ago RAF Bomber Command launches the Battle of Berlin

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Eighty years ago this week the folly of Britain's Dodecanese campaign comes to a miserable end.

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Eighty years ago this week Hitler promises retribution on England

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Eighty years ago this week the noose tightens on Rabaul

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Eighty years ago this week Britain's Aspidistra transmitter attacks German morale and night-fighter control

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Eighty years ago this week Britain tells Italy it won't be getting its PoWs back

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Eighty years ago this week British over-confidence nearly comes unstuck in Italy and Churchill puts down a dangeous marker

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Eighty years ago the Germans vandalize their own past in Naples

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Eighty years ago this week Vichy parades its own anti-Semitism and the Eighth Army takes Foggia

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Eighty years ago this week the British make their first sustained attempt to sink Tirpitz

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Eighty years ago the Italian campaign proper gets off to an inauspicious start

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Eighty years ago the allies dip a toe onto the toe of Italy

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Eighty years ago this week Churchill puts his man in to run the war in India

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Eighty years ago this week the Allies hold Germany on the back foot in the Bay of Biscay and Ukraine

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Eighty years ago, the US 8th Air Force showed how much it had yet to learn whilst RAF Bomber Command showed much it had learned

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Eighty years ago this week, probably the Allies best general blots his copy book

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Eighty years ago this week, the US 9th Air Force launches a brave, but futile and costly raid on Romania and the initiative on the Eastern Front swings to the Soviets

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Eighty years ago this week, RAF Bomber Command finally comes of age and the conquest of Palermo masks flaws in allied planning in Sicily

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Eighty years ago, the Italians are softened up for attack and a Red Rat is removed

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Eighty years ago this week the Allies invade Sicily in imperfect harmony and the Duke of Windsor dabbles in detective work

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Eighty years ago this week, Hitler rolls his last dice on the Eastern Front

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Eighty years ago this week Britain sets the seal on its first major victory of the war

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Eighty years ago this week, Churchill clears the decks in India

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Eighty years ago this week, the air battle for Europe takes shape

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