The document discusses several key events of World War 2 across multiple fronts. It describes Operation Barbarossa, where Germany launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. It then discusses the pivotal Battle of Stalingrad, where German forces were trapped and surrendered in 1943, marking a major turning point in the war. The document also summarizes the North African Campaign between Allied and Axis forces from 1940-1943, culminating in the Allied invasion of Italy.

2. How Speed Defeats a U-Boat
Montegue Dawson
Oil on canvas
The Mariners' Museum

3. U-177 (Type IXD/2) Running on the Surface, circa 1942
Courtesy of Horst Bredow

4. U-Boat Transmitting Center Ashore in France, 1944
Courtesy of Horst Bredow

5. U.S. Navy Signalsmen Monitoring Enemy Radio Transmissions in the Atlantic,
1944
U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

6. Allied Convoy in the Atlantic, 1942
U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

7. Convoy System

8. Allied Intelligence
• Churchill and Roosevelt knew the importance of
intelligence in safeguarding Allied commerce to defeat
the Axis powers.
• The Anglo-American Allies shared information derived
from newly developed technologies like RADAR and
High Frequency Radio Direction Finding (HF/DF or "huff
duff").
• RADAR provided a means of detecting vessels and
aircraft above the surface
• HF/DF was used to locate the sources of enemy radio
transmissions such as submarines.
• Working together, British and American trackers
exploited special intelligence to locate Axis forces with
extreme precision.
• Allied intelligence leaders began sharing code-breaking
secrets, known as "very special intelligence" and
classified under cover-names like "ULTRA" and
"MAGIC".

9. Enigma
• System in which Germany transferred
their information through codes
• Solving the Enigma system remains one
of the great Allied triumphs of World War II
• During periods when Allied cryptanalysts
were unable to solve Enigma, U-boats
caused great damage to Anglo-American
commerce

11. Enigma

12. Bombe

13. Atlantic Battlefront

14. Hunter-Killers
Hunter-Killers Chasing down an Axis Submarine—USS Pillsbury (DE 133) and USS Guadalcanal (CVE 60)
U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

15. Depth Charges
• Bomb Bay Showing Depth Bombs and Sonobuoys inside a TBF "Avenger"
U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

16. Allied Hunter-Killer Escorts Conducting a Depth Charge Attack on a U-Boat
U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

17. • Hunter-Killer Grumman TBF "Avenger" Configured for Antisubmarine Warfare
U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

18. U-Tanker U-118 under Attack by U.S. Navy Aircraft, November 5, 1943
U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

19. Watch the Capture of U-505
The Battle of the Atlantic: Allied Naval Intelligence in World War II

20. Hunter-Killer Grumman TBF "Avenger" Preparing to Launch
U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

21. Operation Barbarosa
• The greatest land war in recorded history began at 3:30
a.m. on June 22, 1941.
• The initial German front was 995 miles long, and there
was another 620 miles along the Finnish border.
• The main front would soon expand to 1490 miles and
extend to a depth of over 600 miles.
• In to this great space of steppe, forest and swamp
marched the best of the German Army, amounting to
three quarters of it's field strength.
• By the end of the year, 3,500,000 Red Army soldiers
were in captivity and 4,000,000 had died in battle.
• At one time the Germans occupied some 900,000
square miles of Soviet territory.

22. German Wehrmacht(Army)
• German Army in USSR was split:
• 1. Army Group North whose main goal
was Leningrad
• 2. Army Group Centre whose main goal
was Moscow
• 3. Army Group South whose main goals
were Rostov, the Caucasus Mts, the
Crimean Peninsula and Stalingrad

23. Hitler’s drive to the Caucasus

24. Battle of Stalingrad

26. Operation Uranus: German 6th Army Trapped in Stalingrad
November 19, 1942 - February 6, 1943

27. Operation Winter Storm: Attempt to Relieve 6th Army
Battle of Stalingrad: December 12-18, 1942

28. Soviet Pursuit After Stalingrad... German Counteroffensive
January 13 - March 26, 1943

32. • “By any measure the battle of Stalingrad was one of the
bloodiest, arguably the largest single battle in human
history. It raged for 200 days. More than 100,000
German and Axis troops died during the first phase of
the battle in 1942 alone. More than 100,000 Romanians,
and 87,000 Italians perished when the Soviets launched
their counter-offensive. After that, another 300,000
Germans were killed or captured when the Soviets
sealed the ring around the city. Thousands more died in
the German attempt to relieve the 6th Army. Of the
500,000 German and fellow Axis troops that began the
battle, only 92,000 were ever captured alive. The others
were either missing in action, killed in action, died of
starvation, exposure or disease. Soviet defenders
meanwhile suffered up to a total of 1,000,000 dead,
wounded and missing during the defense of Stalingrad,
the counter-offensive, the defense of the ring and the
clearing of the pocket. More than 100,000 Soviet
civilians died in Stalingrad and its suburbs.”

33. Battle of Moscow

36. Battle of Leningrad
• On August 30th 1941, the Germans took over Leningrad's railroads,
cutting them off from the rest of Russia and the world.
• the only way for Leningrad to get supplies was through airdrop or
crossing Lake Ladoga.
• Between November 1941 and October 1942, 641,000 people died
of starvation.
• People resorted to eating rats, wallpaper paste and in some cases
human flesh.
• Finally, a successful Russian counter-offensive at Stalingrad,
drained necessary resources the Germans needed to continue the
blockade, and eventually, it failed.
• The Germans never took Leningrad, but it was one of the most
costly conflicts Russia had ever faced.

37. North African Campaign
• Took place in North Africa from June, 1940 to
May, 1943
• Took place in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts
also in Morocco, Algeria and ended in Tunisia
• The campaign was fought between the
Allies(GB, France, US) and Axis
Powers(Germany, Italy, Vichy French)
• The area was in conflict due to colonial interests
dating back to the late 1800’s
• The United States began direct military
assistance in North Africa in May, 1942

39. Operation Torch-November 1942

40. Landing in Morroco

41. Erwin Rommel-The Desert Fox

42. Bernard Montgomery-Monty

43. George Patton

45. Casablanca Conference-January 1942
“Unconditional Surrender”

46. • What did the victory in Africa open the
door for the Allied Powers to do next?
• Why not invade France next?

47. Invasion of Sicily-July/August 1943

49. Sicily

50. Sicily

51. Invasion of Italy Sept. 1943

52. Fighting in Italy’s Appenine Mts.

53. Italy

54. Italy

55. Tuskegee Institute

57. Dwight Eisenhower

71. Ike, Patton and Bradley

72. Battle of the Bulge

74. BATTLE FACTS
• The coldest, snowiest weather “in memory” in the
Ardennes Forest on the German/Belgium border.
• Over a million men, 500,000 Germans, 600,000
Americans (more than fought at Gettysburg) and 55,000
British.
• 100,000 German casualties, killed, wounded or
captured.
• 81,000 American casualties, including 23,554
captured and 19,000 killed.
• 1,400 British casualties 200 killed.
• 800 tanks lost on each side, 1,000 German aircraft.
• The Malmedy Massacre, where 86 American soldiers
were murdered, was the worst atrocity committed
against American troops during the course of the war in
Europe.
• In it's entirety, the “Battle of the Bulge,” was the worst
battles- in terms of losses - to the American Forces in
WWII.

75. Hitler’s Suicide

76. Hitler’s Bunker Unearthed

77. Eva Braun

78. V-E Day May 8, 1945

80. FDR’s Death?? Or Not

82. Truman is sworn in