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You asked for one but I'll give you six. Three for the European Front and three for the Pacific Front.
The Battle of the Bulge.
The sinking of the Bismarck.
The D-Day Landing.
The attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Battle of Iwo Gima
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings.
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If a turning point is a point at which things started to turn in the Allies' favour,
it would have to be the battle of Stalingrad, which began in July 0f 1942.
Westerners tend to forget about the Eastern Front, and few even understand the sheer size of the war on the Eastern front, which simply dwarfs anything that occurred in the west. Stalingrad, for example, produced casualties of about 1.8 million. Compare that to the entire Battle of Normandy, from D-Day to the end of August 1944, in which there were 425,000 casualties. Allied D-Day forces faced about 10,000 German troops, a small number compared to the 91,000 Germans who were left alive to surrender at Stalingrad.
There's also the question of timing. By the time D-Day happened, very late in the war, Germany had no hope of winning. Russian forces had already driven German forces out of Russia, and were advancing rapidly through Poland.
In the Pacific, the turning point came weeks earlier. Japan lost four aircraft carriers at the battle of Midway, in June of '42, and was forced onto the defensive from that moment.
-culchie2 http://wiki.answers.com/What_battles_of_World_War_2#ixzz17U46FjJ2
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