
1940–1945 WWII AND THE BATTLE FOR THE SKIES
The Second World War would draw over 30 countries and all the world’s superpowers into the deadliest conflict in human history. And there was no battleground more vital to victory than the sky above. Beginning with Japan bombing Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and ending with the U.S. dropping two atomic bombs on Japanese cities almost four years later, the skies became the ultimate high ground.