World War II

The Second World War, also World War II or World War 2, was a gigantic military conflict on 20th Century Earth. The Axis, the belligerent faction in the war, included the Empire of Japan and Cobra. It probably followed some sort of initial world war, but we don't know for sure.

In order to win the war, both the United States of America and the Axis worked on creating "super-soldiers": men enhanced by scientific treatments to the peak of human ability.

Fiction

Generation 1

Generation 1 cartoon

Various battles were fought against Japan in the Pacific. One such battle was at Guadalcanal in 1943, where US forces battled the Japanese. The debris would still be there in 1985. Starscream's Brigade

In 2006, Jessica Morgan believed that if the Hate Plague were to get out in the open, it would make World War II look a schoolyard brawl. The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1

Transformers/G.I. Joe

The Fera Islands based Cobra, in this reality having Decepticon assistance, conquered much of Europe between 1938 and 1939. This brought the United States into the war. Transformers/G.I. Joe

Binaltech

The sinister Concurrence included WW2 veteran Garrison Kreiger, who had worked as a double-agent for the Axis power, the I.R.O.N. Army.

Generation 2

Marvel Comics

When Bludgeon constructed a group of new Decepticons, he based Ransack on the F4U Corsair, a WW2-era United States Navy plane.

Robots in Disguise

During the Second World War, Japan was heavily bombed. Old bombs that never went off can still be found and may detonate, especially if you're Sky-Byte. Ultra Magnus

Live-action film series

Titan Magazines

Japan had bombed the American base Pearl Harbour [sic], and apparently their aircraft were so dangerous that Cybertronian spacecraft were assumed to be Japanese. Due to the conflict, American merchant ships went around armed to the teeth. During the war and for some months afterwards, the United States used Grumman Avenger bombers, which were capable of seriously whalloping alien warcraft. Making Waves

Notes

• Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II uses a lot of concepts and terms from World War II for its history of the Great War, particularly the Pacific Theatre (though the Decepticon's strategic bombing campaign is more akin to the European theatre, though Japan did indeed receive a strategic bombing campaign in the last months of the war that very quickly reduced most of it's cities to rubble). In addition, the Quintessons are mentioned as possessing a "Co-Prosperity Sphere", the same term Japan used for its conquered territories.