This Week in WWII: 4th Week in August
1940
First German air raids conducted on central London.
Churchill retaliates bombing of London with the first English air raid on Berlin.
1942
Battle of Stalingrad begins. The Battle of Stalingrad was a major and decisive battle of WWII in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia.
1944
Allies liberate Paris, ending the Battle of Normandy.
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