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The Greatest Battles of WWII
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Most Significant : The Battle of Britain

July 10, 1940 to October 31, 1940.

The largest air battle in history. The German Luftwaffe aim to crush the British RAF before a planned invasion of England.

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  1. Most Significant : The Battle of Britain

  2. 2nd Most Significant : Stalingrad

  3. 3rd Most Significant : The Battle of Normandy

  4. 4th Most Significant : The Battle of Kursk

  5. 5th Most Significant : The Battle of the Atlantic

  6. 6th Most Significant : The Battle of El Alamein

  7. 7th Most Significant : The Battle of Midway

  8. 8th Most Significant : The Battle of the Coral Sea

  9. 9th Most Significant : The Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes)

  10. 10th Most Significant : The Battle of Iwo Jima

  11. 11th Most Significant : The Battle of Guadalcanal

  12. 12th Most Significant : The Battle of Berlin

  13. 13th Most Significant : The Battle of Leyte Gulf

  14. 14th Most Significant : The Battle of Singapore

  15. 15th Most Significant : The Battle of France

  16. 16th Most Significant : The Battle of Okinawa

TV Guide

May20
  1. 6:30 AM The Mafia's Greatest Hits
  2. 7:30 AM Sex BC
  3. 8:30 AM Time Team
  4. 9:30 AM Time Team
  5. 10:30 AM Time Team
  6. 11:30 AM Viking World
  7. 12:30 PM The Battle of Hood and Bismarck
  8. 1:30 PM The Wild West
  9. 2:30 PM The Mafia's Greatest Hits
  10. 3:30 PM I, Caesar
  11. 4:30 PM Egypt Unwrapped
  12. 5:30 PM The Water Boatman
  13. 6:00 PM Art Deco Icons
  14. 6:30 PM The World From Above
  15. 7:00 PM Kings and Queens
  16. 7:30 PM Victoria and Albert
  17. 8:30 PM Inside the World of Henry VIII
  18. 9:30 PM Mud Men
  19. 10:30 PM World War II in Colour
  20. 11:30 PM The Universe
  21. 12:30 AM The Lost Evidence
  22. 1:30 AM Scorched Earth
  23. 2:30 AM Sea Hunters
  24. 3:30 AM Victoria and Albert
  25. 4:30 AM Inside the World of Henry VIII
  26. 5:30 AM Mud Men
  27. End of programming for Sunday, 20 May 2012
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