A nearly year-long battle in a town in northeast France sees the Germans fail to make headway in northeast France.

In April of 1917 the Germans easily repelled an attack by over a million French soldiers.

A small French force defends against the invading Italian army; the French government retreats to Bordeaux and the Germans take Paris.

Scores of Canadian soldiers fall in a failed raid on a German port.

A massive deployment of paratroopers on June 5, 1944, provides support for the Allies in the Normandy invasion, stymieing Germany's attempt to drive them back.

The Allied forces who survived the gauntlet on the beaches of Normandy face the Hitler Youth as they press on further.