American Marines and soldiers push deep into Guam's jungle interior, grinding down entrenched Japanese defenders in the battle's brutal final phase.

The Polish Home Army launches a desperate uprising against German occupation, timed for 5 p.m. as Soviet forces sit idle across the Vistula River.

American Marines and Army troops declared Guam secured after a three-week battle to recapture the island from Japanese occupiers.

Gestapo officers raided the Amsterdam hiding place of Anne Frank and seven others, ending two years in hiding and sending them to concentration camps.

Allied invasion convoys departed for southern France as Operation Dragoon prepared to open a second front, drawing German troops away from Normandy.

Allied forces landed on the beaches of southern France near Saint-Tropez in Operation Dragoon, opening a second front to complement the Normandy invasion.

French Forces of the Interior and Free French troops liberated Marseille from German occupation after a week of fierce street fighting during Operation Dragoon.

As Allied forces pushed north through southern France, French resistance fighters and colonial troops accelerated the liberation of Marseille.

Free French and Allied forces liberated Paris from four years of Nazi occupation as General Charles de Gaulle entered the city to jubilant crowds.

General Charles de Gaulle led a jubilant liberation march down the Champs-Élysées a day after Paris was freed from four years of Nazi occupation.

Two days after the city's liberation, Charles de Gaulle worked to assert Free French authority over Paris, sidelining Communist resistance factions vying for power.

Charles de Gaulle's provisional government formally relocated to Paris, restoring French sovereignty weeks after the city's liberation from Nazi occupation.

Anne Frank and her family are transported on the last train from the Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau, three weeks after their arrest.

German forces began a major bombardment of the Warsaw district of Wola as Polish resistance fighters fought street by street to hold the crumbling city.

The Fatherland Front seized power in Sofia in a nearly bloodless coup, aligning Bulgaria with the advancing Soviet Red Army as the Axis crumbled.

Bulgaria's new government declared war on Nazi Germany, reversing its wartime alliance just days after a coup ousted the pro-Axis regime.

11,000 U.S. Marines waded ashore on the tiny Pacific island of Peleliu expecting a three-day fight; it became a two-month bloodbath.

Allied forces launched the largest airborne operation in history, dropping paratroopers into the Netherlands in a bold bid to seize Rhine bridges and end the war by Christmas.

RAF Lancaster bombers dropped massive 12,000-pound Tallboy bombs on the German battleship Tirpitz anchored in a Norwegian fjord, crippling her.

German officers implicated Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in the July 20 plot against Hitler, and he took poison rather than face a public trial, dying under orders from Berlin.

The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines as American and Japanese fleets clash across four separate engagements over several days.

Canadian and Polish troops battled through flooded Dutch polders to clear German forces from the Scheldt estuary, opening the vital port of Antwerp.