There have been many great battles in WWII but none have ever been as climatic as Operation Overlord, Battle of Stalingrad, and The Battle of Midway. Operation Overlord was quite possibly one of the most intense and gruesome invasions ever fought in any type of war and will go down in history as one of the greatest allied victories of all time. The Battle of Midway will be known as the greatest naval battle ever. The Japanese would have conquered the U.S naval fleet and possibly captured Hawaii which would have led to the attack on American soil if it wasn’t for the superior communications technology that the Americans had. When the Americans intercepted the radio messages of the Japanese naval fleets they where able to counter attack and ambush the Japanese fleets and beat them at their own game. The Battle of Stalingrad is quite possibly the most important battle of all of World War II. The battle was fought for almost a year and a half and it was some of the most brutal weather conditions ever in a war. The Germans and Russians were at a stalemate for months at a time and finally after the bitter Russian winter finally ended the Germans chance of taking Stalingrad and ultimately winning the war. So in closing there have been many battles throughout World War II but Operation Overlord, The Battle of Midway, and The Battle of Stalingrad will go down in history as the most climatic and dramatic battles of all time.

The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war and is one of the most influential battles of our time. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took the offensive. Japanese fleet commander Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto moved on Midway in a effort to draw out and destroy the U.S. Pacific fleets aircraft carrier striking force. He planned to quickly knock down Midway's defenses, follow up with an invasion of the atoll's two small islands and establish a Japanese air base there. Yamamoto believed that he needed to capture Midway, then that would lead to Hawaii and ultimately an open attack on U.S. soil. Yamamoto expected the U.S. carriers to come out and fight, but to arrive too late to save Midway and in insufficient strength to avoid defeat by his own well-tested carrier air power. Yamamoto's intended surprise was thwarted by superior American communications intelligence, the United States knew its enemy's plans in detail: his target, his order of battle and his schedule. When the battle opened, the U.S. Pacific fleet would have three carriers waiting, plus a strong air force and reinforced ground defenses at the Midway Base. This allowed Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, to establish an ambush by having his carriers ready and waiting for the Japanese. On June 4 1942, in the second of the Pacific War's great carrier battles, the trap was sprung. At 0430 in the morning of June 4 ,1942, while 240 miles northwest of Midway, Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo's four carriers began launching 108 planes to attack the U.S. base there. Unknown to the Japanese, three U.S. carriers were steaming 215 miles to the east. Midway launched its own planes. Navy, Marine and Army bombers headed off to attack the Japanese fleet. Then, at about 1025, everything changed. Three squadrons of SBD scout bombers, two from Enterprise and one from Yorktown, almost simultaneously dove on three of the four Japanese carriers, whose decks were crowded with fully armed and fueled planes that were just starting to take off. In a few minutes Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga, and Soryu were no longer operational. Now what was once a dominating force in the Pacific was now down to one oper

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