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World War II (1939-1945) 

This is a record of those who died in the Second World War.

The starting date of the war is generally considered to be September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on the 1st resulting in the declaration of war by the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand on the 3rd September. The war spread beyond Europe and was truly global after the surprise attack by the Japanese Navy on the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii on the morning of Sunday, 7th December 1941.

German forces surrendered in Italy on the 29th April 1945, and in Western Europe on the 7th May, although fighting continued on the Eastern Front. On the 15th August, after the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered, ending the war.

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