These are some of the most INTENSE battles that occurred during World War II. | HISTORY

2.2K views · 13 reactions | World War II was the sum of battles waged: strategies that succeeded or failed, changing the course of the war. From Pearl Harbor, where Japan's attack on US naval capacity instead galvanised America to join the war, to Okinawa, where the Allied victory came at such a cost they would turn to a new strategy in Japan, the atomic bomb. Final episode of Battles Won & Lost tonight at 8.30pm AEST on HISTORY. | HISTORY | Facebook

15K views · 245 reactions | British Commandos were so fast and deadly that Germans first believed they were myths. Yet 10,000 of them carried out more than 600 raids across occupied Europe — hitting coastal bases, sinking ships, and vanishing into the night. This is the true story of Britain’s elite WW2 ghost soldiers. #WW2 #BritainAtWar #BritishCommandos #WW2History #militaryhistory | Britain At War | Facebook

5.1K views · 271 reactions | British Commandos of the No 48 Royal Marine Commando advance up a road in Langrune-sur-Mer, Normandy, with a Centaur and M10 self-propelled gun, June 1944. © IWM A70 35-1 | Imperial War Museum London | Facebook

Royal Marine Commandos are filmed exercising in Normandy for a 1944 government-sponsored film titled ‘By Land and Sea’. The film follows the unit through Normandy in the days after their landing. Watch the full film on our website: https://bit.ly/42rXpnt © IWM UKY 575 | British & Commonwealth Forces