World War II
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World War II,[4][5] also known as the Second World War[3] and the Great Patriotic War,[1] was a conflict on Earth.[3]
War[edit]
Details[edit]
John Forge's family had members fight in World War II.[6] During the war, the British cracked a German encryption scheme.[7] Isoroku Yamamoto crippled the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor,[8] a military base that had been thought too well-defended to be attacked.[9] Also during the war, France created the Maginot Line.[4] One of the bloodiest battles in the war was the Battle of Stalingrad.[3]
During the war, Jimmy Doolittle flew a B-25 off an aircraft carrier to bomb Tokyo. Lilya Litvyak would become the first Soviet Air Force female ace.[10]
End of the war[edit]
The war came to a close with the first usage of human nuclear weapons at Nagasaki and Hiroshima.[2] The bomb at Hiroshima left a domed structure still standing.[11]
Aftermath[edit]
Shortly after the war[edit]
With the war's close in 1945, people danced in the streets and climbed lampposts to hoist flags, which were all recorded.[1]
Following the Second World War, war photography was commonplace.[12]
Legacy[edit]
Some in the 26th-century confused World War II with other wars, like the Hundred Years War, and the Thirty Years War.[7] World War II is taught in Russian schools in the 26th-century.[5] The attack on Pearl Harbor came to Chief Petty Officer McRobb's mind when he considered the notion that Reach was too well-defended to be attacked by the Covenant.[9] France's Maginot Line became idiomatically associated with a Forerunner defensive strategy through Forerunner translation software, after this strategy was discovered by humans.[4] The Chester W. Nimitz conference suite on the UNSC Everest contained some holographs of World War II figures.[8][10] The Smart AI Roland would deliberately model himself after a World War II veteran fighter pilot, completely with period accurate clothing.[13] The Mulzac-class transport was named in reference to Hugh Mulzac, a captain within the United States Merchant Marine who served during World War II.
Gallery[edit]
A building in Hiroshima, Japan that managed to remain standing in spite of the atomic bomb's blast.
Two soldiers amid the ruins of a city.
