P.42 was a single development aircraft used to help with the design of the P.46 Sum (Sheat-fish), the planned replacement for the P.23 Karas. USS Aylwin (DD-355) was a Farragut class destroyer that fought at Pearl Harbor, the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, the Aleutians, the Gilbert Islands, the Marshall Islands, Hollandia, the Marianas, the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. We now open a new section of the site, a day-by-day history of the Second World War covering the 2,214 days of the war from the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 to the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong on 16 September 1945, and currently containing 5,325 individual facts.
We will also announce new articles on the war on this page (at the moment we have 2,455 articles and 2,170,100 words on the war). This page will bring together all of our coverage of the Second War War, including our subject indexes and our book shop pages. Perhaps because of that vast scope the Second World War has been a source of constant fascination ever since. Hardly any country escaped some form of involvement in the fighting, which devastated large areas of Europe and the Far East. Fighting took place in every corner of the world, from the frozen northern oceans to the jungles of New Guinea.
The Second War War was the biggest war in human history.