List of World War II battles

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USS Lexington explodes during the Battle of the Coral Sea. A formation of Spitfires shortly before World War II.

This is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period. Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localised to a specific area and over a specific period. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war. Another misnomer is the Battle of Britain, which should be considered a campaign, not a battle.

Battle  | Campaign  | Theatre  | Start  | End  | Allies  | Axis  | Victory

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Westerplatte | Invasion of Poland | 1939-09-01  | 1939-09-07  |  Poland |  Germany
Danzig | Axis
Chojnice | 1939-09-01  |  Germany | Axis
Danzig |  Danzig | Axis
Danzig Bay |  Germany | Axis
Krojanty | Axis
Lasy Królewskie | Allies
Mokra | Allies
Mikołów | 1939-09-01  | 1939-09-02  | Axis
Pszczyna | Axis
Częstochowa | 1939-09-03  | Axis
Mława | Axis
Jordanów | Axis
Węgierska Górka | Axis
Grudziądz | 1939-09-04  | Axis
Tuchola Forest | 1939-09-05  | Axis
Slovak invasion of Poland | 1939-09-16  |  Slovakia | Axis
Hel | 1939-10-02  |  Germany | Axis
Fraustadt | 1939-09-02  | Allies
Borowa Góra | 1939-09-02  | 1939-09-06  | Axis
Bukowiec | 1939-09-03  | Axis
Katowice | 1939-09-03  | 1939-09-04  | Axis
Piotrków Trybunalski | 1939-09-04  | 1939-09-06  | Axis
Różan | Axis
Tomaszów Mazowiecki | 1939-09-06  | Axis
Pułtusk | 1939-09-06  | 1939-09-07  | Axis
Łódź | 1939-09-08  | Axis
Barak | 1939-09-07  | Allies
Łomża | 1939-09-10  | Axis
Wizna | Axis
Saar Offensive | Phoney War | Western Front | 1939-10-16  |  France | Axis
Wola Cyrusowa | Invasion of Poland | 1939-09-08  |  Poland | Allies
Radom | 1939-09-08  | 1939-09-09  | Axis
Gdynia | 1939-09-14  | Axis
Warsaw | 1939-09-28  | Axis
Bzura | 1939-09-09  | 1939-09-19  | Axis
Kampinos Forest | 1939-09-20  | Axis
Jarosław | 1939-09-10  | 1939-09-11  | Axis
Kępa Oksywska | 1939-09-19  | Axis
Kałuszyn | 1939-09-11  | 1939-09-12  | Allies
Przemyśl | 1939-09-14  | Axis
Lwów | 1939-09-12  | 1939-09-22  |  Germany
Soviet Union | Axis/Soviet
Modlin | 1939-09-13  | 1939-09-29  |  Germany | Axis
Jaworów | 1939-09-14  | 1939-09-16  | Allies
Brześć Litewski | 1939-09-17  | Axis
Kobryń | 1939-09-18  | Inconclusive
Tomaszów Lubelski | 1939-09-17  | 1939-09-26  | Axis
Wilno | Soviet invasion of Poland | Invasion of Poland | 1939-09-18  | 1939-09-19  |  Soviet Union | Soviet
Wólka Węglowa | Invasion of Poland | 1939-09-19  |  Germany | Allies
Krasnystaw | 1939-09-19  | 1939-09-20  | Axis
Grodno | Soviet invasion of Poland | Invasion of Poland | 1939-09-20  | 1939-09-22  |  Soviet Union | Soviet
Cześniki | Invasion of Poland | 1939-09-21  |  Germany | Allies
Łomianki | Soviet invasion of Poland | Invasion of Poland | 1939-09-22  |  Soviet Union | Soviet
Krasnobród | Invasion of Poland | 1939-09-23  |  Germany | Allies
Husynne | Soviet invasion of Poland | Invasion of Poland | 1939-09-24  |  Soviet Union | Soviet
Władypol | 1939-09-27  | Soviet
Szack | 1939-09-28  | Allies
Wytyczno | 1939-10-01  | Soviet
Kock | Invasion of Poland | 1939-10-02  | 1939-10-05  |  Germany | Axis
Suomussalmi | Winter War | 1939-11-30  | 1940-01-08  |  Finland |  Soviet Union | Finnish
Petsamo | 1940-03-13  | Soviet
Salla | Finnish
Ilomantsi (1939)  | 1939-12-10  | 1939-12-16  | Stalemate
River Plate | Battle of the Atlantic | 1939-12-13  |  United Kingdom
New Zealand |  Germany | Allies
Taipale | Winter War | 1939-12-06  | 1939-12-27  |  Finland |  Soviet Union | Finnish
Kollaa | 1939-12-07  | 1940-03-13  | Finnish
Varolampi Pond | 1939-12-10  | 1939-12-11  | Finnish
Tolvajärvi | 1939-12-12  | Finnish
Summa (first)  | 1939-12-16  | 1939-12-22  | Finnish
Kelja | 1939-12-25  | 1939-12-27  | Finnish
Raate Road | 1940-01-01  | 1940-01-07  | Finnish
Kuhmo | 1940-01-28  | 1940-03-13  | Stalemate
Summa (second)  | 1940-02-01  | 1940-02-15  | Soviet
Altmark | Phoney War | Western Front | 1940-02-16  |  United Kingdom |  Germany | Allies
Honkaniemi | Winter War | 1940-02-25  | 1940-02-27  |  Finland |  Soviet Union | Soviet
Vyborg Bay (1940)  | 1940-03-02  | 1940-03-13  | Ceasefire
Oslofjord | Norwegian campaign | Western Front | 1940-04-08  |  Norway |  Germany | Axis
German invasion of Denmark | Operation Weserübung | 1940-04-09  |  Denmark | Axis
Drøbak Sound | Norwegian campaign |  Norway | Allies
Fornebu | Axis
Horten Harbour | Axis
Kristiansand | Axis
Lofoten |  United Kingdom | Allies
Narvik | 1940-04-09  | 1940-06-08  |  Norway
France
United Kingdom
Poland | Allies
Narvik (naval Norwegian)  | 1940-04-09  |  Norway | Axis
Midtskogen | 1940-04-10  | Allies
Narvik (first naval)  |  United Kingdom | Allies
Narvik (second naval)  | 1940-04-13  | Allies
Dombås | 1940-04-14  | 1940-04-19  |  Norway | Allies
Hegra Fortress | 1940-04-15  | 1940-05-05  | Axis
Namsos | 1940-04  | 1940-05  |  United Kingdom
France
Norway | Axis
Åndalsnes | 1940-04-19  | 1940-05  |  United Kingdom
Norway | Axis
Gratangen | 1940-04-23  | 1940-04-25  |  Norway | Axis
Høljarast Bridge | 1940-04-24  | Axis
Kvam | 1940-04-25  | 1940-04-26  |  United Kingdom
Norway | Axis
Vinjesvingen | 1940-05-03  | 1940-05-05  |  Norway | Axis
Nordland | 1940-05-08  | 1940-06-01  |  United Kingdom
Norway | Axis
The Hague | German invasion of the Netherlands | 1940-05-10  |  Netherlands | Allies
Invasion of Iceland | Allied occupation of Iceland |  United Kingdom |  Iceland | British
German invasion of Luxembourg |  Luxembourg |  Germany | Axis
Maastricht | German invasion of the Netherlands |  Netherlands | Axis
Fort Ében-Émael | German invasion of Belgium | 1940-05-10  | 1940-05-11  |  Belgium | Axis
Mill | German invasion of the Netherlands |  Netherlands | Axis
Rotterdam | 1940-05-14  | Axis
Zeeland | 1940-05-18  |  Netherlands
France
United Kingdom | Axis
Grebbeberg | 1940-05-11  | 1940-05-13  |  Netherlands | Axis
Afsluitdijk | 1940-05-12  | 1940-05-14  | Axis
Hannut | German invasion of Belgium | 1940-05-14  |  Belgium | Axis
Sedan | Battle of France | 1940-05-17  |  France
United Kingdom | Axis
Gembloux | German invasion of Belgium | 1940-05-14  | 1940-05-15  |  France | Allies
Montcornet | Battle of France | 1940-05-17  | Allies
Arras | 1940-05-21  |  France
United Kingdom | Axis
Boulogne | 1940-05-22  | 1940-05-25  |  France
United Kingdom
Belgium | Axis
Calais | 1940-05-26  | Axis
Lys | German invasion of Belgium | 1940-05-24  | 1940-05-28  | Axis
Ypres–Comines Canal | 1940-05-26  | 1940-05-28  |  United Kingdom
Belgium | Allies
Dunkirk | Battle of France | 1940-05-26  | 1940-06-04  |  France
United Kingdom
Belgium
Canada
Netherlands | Axis
Abbeville | 1940-05-27  | 1940-06-04  |  France
United Kingdom | Axis
Lille | 1940-05-28  | 1940-05-31  |  France | Axis
Fall Rot | 1940-06-05  | 1940-06-25  |  France
United Kingdom | Axis
Operation Juno | Norwegian campaign | 1940-06-08  |  United Kingdom | Axis
Italian invasion of France | Battle of France | 1940-06-10  | 1940-06-25  |  France
United Kingdom |  Italy | Axis
Siege of Malta | Mediterranean Front | 1940-06-11  | 1942-11-20  |  United Kingdom
Canada
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Free France
Greece
Poland
Norway
United States |  Italy
Germany | Allies
Lagarde | Battle of France | Western Front | 1940-06-17  | 1940-06-18  |  Poland |  Germany | Axis
Saumur | 1940-06-18  | 1940-06-20  |  France | Axis
Espero Convoy | Mediterranean Front | 1940-06-28  |  United Kingdom
Australia |  Italy | Inconclusive
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina | 1940-06-28  | 1940-07-03  |  Romania |  Soviet Union
Germany | Soviet
Mers-el-Kébir | Mediterranean Front | 1940-07-03  |  United Kingdom |  France | Allies
Kassala | East African campaign | African Front | 1940-07-04  |  Italy | Axis
Kanalkampf | Battle of Britain | Western Front | 1940-07-04  | 1940-08-11  |  United Kingdom
Netherlands
Norway
Canada
Poland
Belgium |  Germany | Inconclusive
Calabria | Mediterranean Front | 1940-07-09  |  United Kingdom
Australia |  Italy | Inconclusive
Cape Spada | 1940-07-19  | Allies
Tug Argan | East African campaign | African Front | 1940-08-11  | 1940-08-15  |  United Kingdom | Axis
Adlertag | Battle of Britain | Western Front | 1940-08-13  |  Germany | Allies
The Hardest Day | 1940-08-18  | Inconclusive
Battle of Britain Day | 1940-09-15  | Allies
Graveney Marsh | 1940-09-27  | Allies
Italian invasion of British Somaliland | East African campaign | African Front | 1940-08-03  | 1940-08-19  |  United Kingdom
Australia
South Africa |  Italy | Axis
The Blitz | Battle of Britain | Western Front | 1940-09-07  | 1941-05-11  |  United Kingdom |  Germany
Italy | Inconclusive
Italian invasion of Egypt | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1940-09-09  | 1940-09-16  |  United Kingdom
Free France |  Italy | Axis
Lạng Sơn  | Japanese invasion of French Indochina | South-East Asian Front | 1940-09-22  | 1940-09-26  |  Vichy France |  Japan | Japanese
Dakar | West African campaign | African Front | 1940-09-23  | 1940-09-25  |  United Kingdom
Free France
Australia |  Vichy France | Vichy
Franco-Thai War | South-East Asian Front | 1940-10  | 1941-01-28  |  Vichy France |  Thailand | Thai
Cape Passero | Battle of the Mediterranean | Mediterranean Front | 1940-10-12  |  United Kingdom |  Italy | Allies
Convoy BN 7 | East African campaign | African Front | 1940-10-20  | 1940-10-21  |  United Kingdom
New Zealand
Australia | Allies
Gabon | West African campaign | 1940-10-27  | 1940-11-12  |  Free France
United Kingdom |  Vichy France | Allies
Pindus | Greco–Italian War | Mediterranean Front | 1940-10-28  | 1940-11-13  |  Greece |  Italy | Allies
Elaia–Kalamas | 1940-11-02  | 1940-11-08  | Allies
Taranto | Mediterranean Front | 1940-11-11  | 1940-11-12  |  United Kingdom | Allies
Morava–Ivan | Greco–Italian War | Mediterranean Front | 1940-11-14  | 1940-11-23  |  Greece |  Italy
Albania | Allies
Korytsa | Greco–Italian War | 1940-11-16  | 1940-11-22  |  Italy | Allies
Cape Spartivento | Mediterranean Front | 1940-11-27  |  United Kingdom | Inconclusive
Saranda | Greco–Italian War | Mediterranean Front | 1940-12  |  Greece | Allies
Nibeiwa | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1940-12-09  |  United Kingdom | Allies
Sidi Barrani | 1940-12-10  | 1940-12-11  |  United Kingdom
Australia
Free France | Allies
Himara | Greco–Italian War | Mediterranean Front | 1940-12-13  | 1940-12-22  |  Greece | Allies
Giarabub | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1940-12-25  | 1941-03-21  |  United Kingdom
Australia | Allies
Bardia | 1941-01-03  | 1941-01-05  |  Australia
United Kingdom
Free France | Allies
Klisura Pass | Greco–Italian War | Mediterranean Front | 1941-01-06  | 1941-01-11  |  Greece | Allies
Operation Excess | Battle of the Mediterranean | 1941-01-10  |  United Kingdom
Australia |  Italy
Germany | Allies
Operation Berlin (Atlantic) | Battle of the Atlantic | 1941-01-22  | 1941-03-22  |  United Kingdom |  Germany | Axis
Mechili | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1941-01-24  |  Italy | Allies
Agordat | East African campaign | 1941-01-26  | 1941-01-31  | Allies
Trebeshina | Greco–Italian War | Mediterranean Front | 1941-01-29  | 1941-02-17  |  Greece | Allies
Kufra | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1941-01-31  | 1941-03-01  |  Free France
United Kingdom | Allies
Keren | East African campaign | 1941-02-03  | 1941-03-27  |  United Kingdom
Free France | Allies
Beda Fomm | Western Desert campaign | 1941-02-06  | 1941-02-07  |  United Kingdom
Australia | Allies
Operation Sonnenblume | 1941-05-25  |  Germany
Italy | Axis
Action of 27 February 1941 | Indian Ocean | 1941-02-27  |  New Zealand |  Italy | Allies
Hill 731 | Greco–Italian War | Mediterranean Front | 1941-03-09  | 1941-03-24  |  Greece | Allies
Shanggao | Second Sino-Japanese War | 1941-03-14  | 1941-04-09  |  China |  Japan | Chinese
Saïo | East African campaign | African Front | 1941-03-25  | 1941-07-06  |  Belgium
United Kingdom
Ethiopian Empire
South Africa |  Italy | Allies
Souda Bay | Mediterranean Front | 1941-03-26  |  United Kingdom
Norway | Axis
Cape Matapan | 1941-03-27  | 1941-03-29  |  United Kingdom
Australia | Allies
4 April 1941 | Battle of the Atlantic | 1941-04-04  |  United Kingdom |  Germany | Axis
Operation Retribution (1941) | Balkans campaign | Mediterranean Front | 1941-04-06  | 1941-04-08  |  Yugoslavia | Axis
Metaxas Line | 1941-04-09  |  Greece | Axis
Invasion of Yugoslavia | 1941-04-18  |  Yugoslavia |  Germany
Hungary
Italy | Axis
Tobruk | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1941-04-10  | 1941-11-27  |  Australia
United Kingdom
New Zealand
Poland
Czechoslovakia |  Germany
Italy | Allies
Vevi | Balkans campaign | Mediterranean Front | 1941-04-11  | 1941-04-12  |  Australia
Greece
New Zealand
United Kingdom |  Germany | Axis
Ptolemaida | 1941-04-13  |  United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand | Axis
Kleisoura Pass | 1941-04-13  | 1941-04-14  |  Greece | Axis
Lake Kastoria | 1941-04-15  | Axis
Tarigo Convoy | Mediterranean Front | 1941-04-16  |  United Kingdom |  Italy | Allies
Tempe Gorge | Balkans campaign | Mediterranean Front | 1941-04-18  |  Australia
New Zealand |  Germany | Allies
Bardia | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1941-04-19  | 1941-04-20  |  United Kingdom
Australia |  Germany
Italy | Allies
Athens | Balkans campaign | Mediterranean Front | 1941-04-20  |  United Kingdom |  Germany | Axis
Thermopylae | 1941-04-24  | 1941-04-25  |  Australia
New Zealand | Axis
Anglo-Iraqi War | Middle Eastern Front | 1941-05-02  | 1941-05-31  |  United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
Greece |  Iraq
Germany
Italy
Vichy France | Allies
Amba Alagi | East African campaign | African Front | 1941-05-04  | 1941-05-19  |  United Kingdom
South Africa
Ethiopian Empire |  Italy | Allies
Convoy OB 318 | Battle of the Atlantic | 1941-05-07  | 1941-05-10  |  United Kingdom |  Germany | Allies
Action of 8 May 1941 | Indian Ocean | 1941-05-08  | Allies
Operation Brevity | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1941-05-15  | 1941-05-16  |  United Kingdom
Australia |  Germany
Italy | Inconclusive
Last battle of Bismarck | Battle of the Atlantic | 1941-05-18  | 1941-05-27  |  United Kingdom
Poland |  Germany | Allies
Rethymno | Balkans campaign | Mediterranean Front | 1941-05-20  | 1941-05-29  |  Australia
Greece | Axis
Crete | 1941-06-01  |  New Zealand
Greece
United Kingdom
Australia |  Germany
Italy | Axis
Denmark Strait | Battle of the Atlantic | 1941-05-24  |  United Kingdom |  Germany | Axis
Operation Skorpion | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1941-05-26  | 1941-05-27  | Axis
42nd Street | Balkans campaign | Mediterranean Front | 1941-05-27  |  Australia
New Zealand | Allies
Litani River | Syria–Lebanon campaign | Middle Eastern Front | 1941-06-09  |  United Kingdom
Australia |  Vichy France | Allies
Jezzine | 1941-06-13  | 1941-06-14  |  Australia | Allies
Sidon | 1941-06-15  | Allies
Operation Battleaxe | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1941-06-15  | 1941-06-17  |  United Kingdom
Poland
Czechoslovakia |  Germany
Italy | Axis
Kissoué | Syria–Lebanon campaign | Middle Eastern Front | 1941-06-15  | 1941-06-17  |  United Kingdom
Free France |  Vichy France | Allies
Damascus | 1941-06-18  | 1941-06-21  |  United Kingdom
Australia
Free France | Allies
Merdjayoun | 1941-06-19  | 1941-06-24  |  United Kingdom
Australia | Allies
Palmyra | 1941-06-21  | 1941-07-02  |  United Kingdom | Allies
Operation Rentier | Continuation War | Eastern Front | 1941-06-22  |  Soviet Union |  Germany | Axis
Brest Fortress | 1941-06-22  | 1941-06-29  | Axis
Białystok–Minsk | 1941-07-09  | Axis
Gulf of Riga | Baltic Sea campaigns | 1941-08  | Axis
Soviet submarine campaign (1941) | 1941-11  | Inconclusive
Hanko | Continuation War | 1941-12-02  |  Finland | Axis
German-Soviet air war 22 June 1941 | Operation Barbarossa | 1941-06-22  |  Germany | Axis
Raseiniai | 1941-06-23  | 1941-06-27  | Axis
Brody | 1941-06-30  | Axis
Operation Platinum Fox | Continuation War | 1941-06-29  | 1941-09-21  |  Germany
Finland | Allies
Finnish invasion of Ladoga Karelia | 1941-07  | 1941-08  | Axis
Operation Arctic Fox | 1941-07-01  | 1941-11-17  |  Germany
Finland | Stalemate
Operation München | Operation Barbarossa | 1941-07-02  | 1941-07-26  |  Romania
Germany | Axis
Deir ez-Zor | Syria–Lebanon campaign | Middle Eastern Front | 1941-07-03  |  United Kingdom |  Vichy France | Allies
Damour | 1941-07-05  | 1941-07-09  |  Australia | Allies
Kiev (1941) | Operation Barbarossa | Eastern Front | 1941-07-07  | 1941-09-26  |  Soviet Union |  Germany | Axis
Smolensk (1941) | 1941-07-10  |  | Axis
Finnish invasion of East Karelia | Continuation War | 1941-07-10  | 1941-12-06  |  Finland
Germany | Axis
Beirut | Syria–Lebanon campaign | Middle Eastern Front | 1941-07-12  |  United Kingdom
Australia
Free France |  Vichy France | Allies
Operation Substance | Battle of the Mediterranean | Mediterranean Front | 1941-07-13  | 1941-07-28  |  United Kingdom
Australia |  Italy | Allies
Uman | Operation Barbarossa | Eastern Front | 1941-07-15  | 1941-08-08  |  Soviet Union |  Germany
Romania
Hungary
Slovakia | Axis
Twin Pimples | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1941-07-17  | 1941-07-18  |  United Kingdom
Australia |  Italy | Allies
Bengtskär | Continuation War | Eastern Front | 1941-07-26  |  Soviet Union |  Finland | Axis
Operation EF | 1941-07-30  |  United Kingdom |  Germany
Finland | Axis
Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus | 1941-07-31  | 1941-09-05  |  Soviet Union |  Finland | Axis
Culqualber | East African campaign | African Front | 1941-08-06  | 1941-11-21  |  United Kingdom
South Africa
Ethiopian Empire |  Italy | Allies
Odessa (1941) | Operation Barbarossa | Eastern Front | 1941-08-08  | 1941-10-16  |  Soviet Union |  Romania
Germany
Italy | Axis
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran | Middle Eastern Front | 1941-08-25  | 1941-08-31  |  Soviet Union
United Kingdom
Australia |  Iran | Allies
Soviet evacuation of Tallinn | Continuation War | Eastern Front | 1941-08-27  | 1941-08-31  |  Soviet Union |  Finland
Germany | Axis
Porlampi | 1941-08-30  | 1941-09-01  |  Finland | Axis
Loznica | Uprising in Serbia | Mediterranean Front | 1941-08-31  |  Germany |  Chetniks | Allies
Changsha (second)  | Second Sino-Japanese War | 1941-09-06  | 1941-10-08  |  China |  Japan | Allies
Leningrad | Operation Barbarossa | Eastern Front | 1941-09-08  | 1944-01-27  |  Soviet Union |  Germany
Finland
Italy | Allies
Operation Beowulf | Baltic Sea campaigns | 1941-09-09  | 1941-10-21  |  Germany | Axis
Šabac | Uprising in Serbia | Mediterranean Front | 1941-09-21  | 1941-09-26  |  Chetniks
Yugoslav Partisans |  Germany
Croatia | Axis
Kruševac | 1941-09-23  | 1941-09-27  |  Chetniks
Yugoslav Partisans |  Germany | Axis
Sea of Azov | Operation Barbarossa | Eastern Front | 1941-09-26  | 1941-10-11  |  Soviet Union |  Germany
Romania | Axis
Operation Halberd | Battle of the Mediterranean | Mediterranean Front | 1941-09-27  |  United Kingdom
Netherlands
Poland |  Italy | Allies
Petrikowka | Operation Barbarossa | Eastern Front | 1941-09-27  | 1941-09-30  |  Soviet Union | Axis
Operation Uzice | Uprising in Serbia | Mediterranean Front | 1941-11-29  |  Chetniks
Yugoslav Partisans |  Germany
Croatia | Axis
Bryansk | Operation Barbarossa | Eastern Front | 1941-09-30  | 1941-10-21  |  Soviet Union |  Germany | Axis
Moscow | 1942-01-07  | Allies
Kraljevo | Uprising in Serbia | Mediterranean Front | 1941-10-09  | 1941-10-31  |  Chetniks
Yugoslav Partisans | Axis
Borodino Field | Operation Barbarossa | Eastern Front | 1941-10-13  | 1942-01-18  |  Soviet Union | Allies
Rogatica (1941) | Uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina  | Mediterranean Front | 1941-10-24  |  Chetniks
Yugoslav Partisans |  Croatia | Allies
Tikhvin | Operation Barbarossa | Eastern Front | 1941-10-16  | 1941-12-31  |  Soviet Union |  Germany | Allies
Crimean campaign | 1941-10-18  | 1944-07-04  |  Germany
Romania
Italy | Axis
Kharkov (first)  | 1941-10-20  | 1941-10-24  |  Germany | Axis
Sevastopol | 1941-10-30  | 1942-07-04  |  Germany
Romania
Italy | Axis
Novi Pazar | Uprising in Serbia | Mediterranean Front | 1941-11  | 1941-12  |  Albania
Sandžaks |  Chetniks
Yugoslav Partisans | Axis
Olovo | Uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina  | 1941-11-01  | 1941-12-17  |  Chetniks
Yugoslav Partisans |  Croatia | Allies
Trešnjica | Uprising in Serbia | 1941-11-02  |  Yugoslav Partisans |  Chetniks | Allies
Duisburg Convoy | Mediterranean Front | 1941-11-08  | 1941-11-09  |  United Kingdom |  Italy | Allies
Gondar | East African campaign | African Front | 1941-11-13  | 1941-11-27  |  United Kingdom
South Africa
Ethiopian Empire |  Italy | Allies
Operation Crusader | Western Desert campaign | 1941-11-18  | 1941-12-30  |  United Kingdom
New Zealand
South Africa
Australia
Poland
Czechoslovakia |  Italy
Germany | Allies
Bir el Gubi | 1941-11-19  |  United Kingdom |  Italy | Axis
Point 175 | 1941-11-29  | 1941-12-01  |  New Zealand | Axis
Pljevlja | Uprising in Montenegro | Mediterranean Front | 1941-12-01  | 1941-12-02  |  Yugoslav Partisans | Axis
Bir el Gubi | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1941-12-04  | 1941-12-07  |  United Kingdom |  Italy
Germany | Axis
Operation Mihailovic | Uprising in Serbia | Mediterranean Front | 1941-12-09  |  Chetniks |  Germany | Axis
Japanese invasion of Thailand | Pacific War | 1941-12-07  |  Thailand |  Japan | Axis
Kota Bharu | Malayan campaign | 1941-12-08 (local)  |  United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand | Axis
Pearl Harbor | Central Pacific  | 1941-12-07  |  United States | Axis
Batan Island | Philippines campaign (Axis)  | 1941-12-08  | Axis
Clark Field | Axis
Midway bombardment (first)  | 1941-12-07 (local)  | Axis
Operation Krohcol | Malayan campaign | 1941-12-08  | 1941-12-13  |  United Kingdom | Axis
Hong Kong | 1941-12-08  | 1941-12-25  |  United Kingdom
Canada
China
Free France | Axis
Japanese invasion of Thailand | 1941-12-08  |  Thailand | Axis
Singapore (1941) | Malayan campaign |  United Kingdom | Inconclusive
Guam (1941) | 1941-12-08  | 1941-12-10  |  United States | Axis
Wake Island | 1941-12-23  | Axis
Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse | Malayan campaign | 1941-12-10  |  United Kingdom | Axis
Vigan | Philippines campaign (Axis)  |  United States | Axis
Aparri | Axis
Jitra | Malayan campaign | 1941-12-10  | 1941-12-13  |  United Kingdom | Axis
Legazpi | Philippines campaign (Axis)  | 1941-12-12  |  United States | Axis
Cape Bon | Mediterranean Front | 1941-12-13  |  United Kingdom
Netherlands |  Italy | Allies
Japanese invasion of Burma | Burma campaign | South-East Asian Front | 1941-12-14  | 1942-05-28  |  United Kingdom
China
United States |  Japan
Thailand | Axis
Gurun | Malayan campaign | Pacific Front | 1941-12-16  |  United Kingdom |  Japan | Axis
Kerch Peninsula | Operation Barbarossa | Eastern Front | 1941-12-16  | 1942-05-19  |  Soviet Union |  Germany
Romania | Axis
Sirte (first)  | Mediterranean Front | 1941-12-17  |  United Kingdom
Australia
Netherlands |  Italy | Inconclusive
Alexandria | 1941-12-19  |  United Kingdom | Axis
Davao | Philippines campaign (Axis)  | Pacific Front | 1941-12-19  | 1941-12-25  |  United States |  Japan | Axis
Lingayen Gulf | 1941-12-21  | 1941-12-23  | Axis
Lamon Bay | Axis
Sjenica | Uprising in Serbia | Mediterranean Front | 1941-12-22  |  Yugoslav Partisans | Sandžaks
Italy
Germany | Axis
Changsha (third)  | Second Sino-Japanese War | 1941-12-24  | 1942-01-15  |  China |  Japan | Allies
Kampar | Malayan campaign | Pacific Front | 1941-12-30  | 1942-01-02  |  United Kingdom | Stalemate
Slim River | 1942-01-05  | 1942-01-07  | Axis
Bataan | Philippines campaign (Axis)  | 1942-01-07  | 1942-04-09  |  United States | Axis
Dražgoše | Slovene campaign | Mediterranean Front | 1942-01-09  | 1942-01-11  |  Slovene Partisans |  Germany | Axis
Kuala Lumpur | Malayan campaign | Pacific Front | 1942-01-11  |  United Kingdom |  Japan | Axis
Gemas | 1942-01-14  |  Australia | Allies
Muar | 1942-01-14  | 1942-01-22  |  United Kingdom
Australia | Axis
Endau | 1942-01-26  | 1942-01-27  | Axis
Makassar Strait | Dutch East Indies campaign | 1942-02-04  |  Netherlands
United States | Axis
Sarimbun Beach | Battle of Singapore | 1942-02-08  | 1942-02-09  |  Australia | Axis
Kranji | 1942-02-09  | 1942-02-10  | Axis
Bukit Timah | 1942-02-10  | 1942-02-12  |  United Kingdom
Australia | Axis
Pasir Panjang | 1942-02-13  | 1942-02-15  |  United Kingdom | Axis
Bilin River | Japanese invasion of Burma | South-East Asian Front | 1942-02-14  | 1942-02-19  | Axis
Badung Strait | Dutch East Indies campaign | Pacific Front | 1942-02-19  | 1942-02-20  |  Netherlands
United States
United Kingdom | Axis
Sittang Bridge | Japanese invasion of Burma | South-East Asian Front | 1942-02-22  | 1942-02-23  |  United Kingdom | Axis
Java Sea | Dutch East Indies campaign | Pacific Front | 1942-02-27  |  Netherlands
United States
United Kingdom
Australia | Axis
Java (1942) | 1942-02-28  | 1942-03-12  | Axis
Pegu | Japanese invasion of Burma | South-East Asian Front | 1942-03-06  | 1942-03-07  |  United Kingdom | Axis
Taukkyan Roadblock | 1942-03-07  | 1942-03-08  | Allies
Yunnan–Burma Road | 1942-03-18  | 1942-07-12  |  China
United Kingdom
United States |  Japan
Thailand | Axis
Suursaari | Continuation War | Eastern Front | 1942-03-26  | 1942-04-02  |  Soviet Union |  Finland | Axis
Prome (1942) | Japanese invasion of Burma | South-East Asian Front | 1942-03-30  | 1942-04-02  |  United Kingdom |  Japan | Axis
Christmas Island | Dutch East Indies campaign | Pacific Front | 1942-03-31  | 1942-04-01  |  United Kingdom
United States | Axis
Indian Ocean raid | Indian Ocean | 1942-04-10  |  United Kingdom
Australia
Netherlands
United States
Canada | Axis
Nanos | Slovene Lands | Mediterranean Front | 1942-04-18  |  Slovene Partisans |  Italy | Axis
Doolittle Raid | Central Pacific  | Pacific Front |  United States
China |  Japan | Allies
Coral Sea | New Guinea campaign | 1942-05-04  | 1942-05-08  |  United States
Australia | Allies
Corregidor | Philippines campaign (Axis)  | 1942-05-05  | 1942-05-06  |  United States | Axis
Kharkov (second)  | Eastern Front | 1942-05-12  | 1942-05-28  |  Soviet Union |  Germany
Romania
Hungary
Italy
Slovakia
Croatia | Axis
Adzhimushkay quarry | Operation Barbarossa | Eastern Front | 1942-05-16  | 1942-10-30  |  Soviet Union |  Germany | Axis
Gazala | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1942-05-26  | 1942-06-21  |  United Kingdom
South Africa
Free France
Canada |  Italy
Germany | Axis
Bir Hakeim | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1942-06-11  |  Free France
United Kingdom | Inconclusive
Sydney Harbour | Axis naval activity in Australian waters | Pacific Front | 1942-05-31  | 1942-06-08  |  Australia
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands |  Japan | Inconclusive
Dutch Harbor | Aleutian Islands campaign | American Front | 1942-06-03  | 1942-06-04  |  United States | Axis
Midway | Central Pacific  | Pacific Front | 1942-06-04  | 1942-06-07  | Allies
Soviet submarine campaign (1942) | Baltic Sea campaigns | Eastern Front | 1942-06  | 1942-10  |  Soviet Union |  Germany
Finland
Sweden | Allies
El Alamein (first)  | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1942-07-01  | 1942-07-27  |  United Kingdom
New Zealand
Australia
South Africa |  Italy
Germany | Inconclusive
Someri | Continuation War | Eastern Front | 1942-07-08  | 1942-07-10  |  Soviet Union |  Finland
Germany | Axis
Stalingrad | 1942-07-17  | 1943-02-02  |  Germany
Romania
Italy
Hungary | Allies
Invasion of Buna–Gona | Kokoda Track campaign | Pacific Front | 1942-07-21  | 1942-07-27  |  Australia
United States |  Japan | Axis
Kokoda | 1942-07-28  | 1942-07-29  |  Australia | Axis
Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo | Guadalcanal campaign | 1942-08-07  | 1942-08-09  |  United States
United Kingdom | Allies
Kokoda | Kokoda Track campaign | 1942-08-08  | 1942-08-10  |  Australia | Allies
Savo Island | Guadalcanal campaign | 1942-08-09  |  United States
Australia | Axis
Dieppe Raid | British Commando operations | Western Front | 1942-08-19  |  United Kingdom
Canada
Free France
United States
Poland
Czechoslovakia |  Germany | Axis
Sinyavino | Operation Nordlicht (1942) | Eastern Front | 1942-08-19  | 1942-10-10  |  Soviet Union | Stalemate
Tenaru | Guadalcanal campaign | Pacific Front | 1942-08-21  |  United States
United Kingdom |  Japan | Allies
Eastern Solomons | 1942-08-24  | 1942-08-25  |  United States | Allies
Milne Bay | New Guinea campaign | 1942-08-25  | 1942-09-07  |  Australia
United States | Allies
Isurava | Kokoda Track campaign | 1942-08-26  | 1942-08-31  |  Australia | Axis
Alam el Halfa | Western Desert Campaign | North African Campaign | 1942-08-30  | 1942-09-5  |  United Kingdom
New Zealand |  Germany
Italy | Allies
Eora Creek–Templeton's Crossing (first)  | Kokoda Track campaign | Pacific Front | 1942-08-31  | 1942-09-05  |  Australia |  Japan | Axis
Mission Ridge–Brigade Hill | 1942-09-06  | 1942-09-09  | Inconclusive
Edson's Ridge | Guadalcanal campaign | 1942-09-12  | 1942-09-14  |  United States
United Kingdom | Allies
Ioribaiwa | Kokoda Track campaign | 1942-09-14  | 1942-09-16  |  Australia | Axis
Matanikau (second)  | Guadalcanal campaign | 1942-09-23  | 1942-09-27  |  United States | Axis
Matanikau (third)  | 1942-10-06  | 1942-10-09  | Allies
Cape Esperance | 1942-10-11  | 1942-10-12  | Allies
Eora Creek–Templeton's Crossing (second)  | Kokoda Track campaign | 1942-10-28  |  Australia | Allies
Sukho Island | Baltic Sea campaigns | Eastern Front | 1942-10-22  |  Soviet Union |  Germany | Allies
Henderson Field | Guadalcanal campaign | Pacific Front | 1942-10-23  | 1942-10-26  |  United States |  Japan | Allies
El Alamein (second)  | Western Desert campaign | African Front | 1942-10-23  | 1942-11-11  |  United Kingdom
New Zealand
Australia
South Africa
Free France
Greece
United States |  Italy
Germany | Allies
Santa Cruz Islands | Guadalcanal campaign | Pacific Front | 1942-10-25  | 1942-10-27  |  United States |  Japan | Axis
Matanikau (fourth)  | 1942-11-01  | 1942-11-04  | Allies
Koli Point | 1942-11-03  | 1942-11-12  |  United States
United Kingdom
Australia | Allies
Oivi–Gorari | Kokoda Track campaign | 1942-11-04  | 1942-11-11  |  Australia | Allies
Madagascar | Indian Ocean | 1942-05-05  | 1942-11-06  |  Free France
United Kingdom
South Africa
Australia
Netherlands
Poland |  Vichy France
Japan | Allies
Operation Reservist | Operation Torch | African Front | 1942-11-08  |  United States
United Kingdom |  Vichy France | Axis
Operation Terminal | Axis
Port Lyautey | 1942-11-08  | 1942-11-10  |  United States | Allies
Operation Blackstone | Allies
Casablanca | 1942-11-16  |  Vichy France
Germany | Allies
El Agheila | Western Desert Campaign | 1942-12-11  | 1942-12-18  |  United Kingdom
New Zealand |  Italy
Germany | Inconclusive
Carlson's patrol | Guadalcanal campaign | Pacific Front | 1942-11-06  | 1942-12-04  |  United States
United Kingdom
Australia |  Japan | Allies
Guadalcanal | 1942-11-12  | 1942-11-15  |  United States | Allies
Buna–Gona | New Guinea campaign | 1942-11-16  | 1943-01-22  | Allies
Tassafaronga | Guadalcanal campaign | 1942-11-30  | Axis
Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse | 1942-12-15  | 1943-01-23  |  United States
United Kingdom
New Zealand | Allies
Case White | Uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina  | Eastern Front | 1943-01-20  | 1943-03  |  Yugoslav Partisans |  Germany
Italy
Croatia
Chetniks (MVAC)  | Axis
Rennell Island | Guadalcanal campaign | Pacific Front | 1943-01-29  | 1943-01-30  |  United States |  Japan | Axis
Wau | New Guinea campaign | 1943-02-04  |  Australia
United States |  Japan | Allies
Sidi Bou Zid | Tunisian campaign | African Front | 1943-02-14  | 1943-02-17  |  United States
Free France |  Germany | Axis
Kharkov (Third) | Eastern Front | 1943-02-19  | 1943-03-15  |  Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia | Axis
Bismarck Sea | New Guinea Campaign | Pacific Front | 1943-03-02  | 1943-03-04  |  United States

Australia

|  Japan | Allies
Medenine | Tunisian campaign | African Front | 1943-03-06  |  United Kingdom
New Zealand
Free France |  Germany
Italy | Allies
Mareth Line | 1943-03-16  | 1943-03-16  |  United Kingdom
New Zealand
Free France
Greece | Allies
El Guettar | 1943-03-23  | 1943-04-03  |  United States | Inconclusive
Komandorski Islands | Aleutian Islands campaign | American Front | 1943-03-27  |  United States |  Japan | Allies
Soviet submarine campaign (1943) | Baltic Sea campaigns | Eastern Front | 1943-04  | 1943-08  |  Soviet Union |  Germany
Finland | Axis
Operation Flax | Tunisian Campaign | African Front | 1943-04-05  | 1943-04-27  |  United Kingdom
United States |  Germany
Italy | Allies
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Ghetto Uprisings | The Holocaust | 1943-04-19  | 1943-5-16  | Jewish resistance |  Germany | Axis
Operations Vulcan and Strike | Tunisian Campaign | African Front | 1943-04-22  | 1943-05-6  |  United Kingdom
United States |  Italy
Germany | Allies
Longstop Hill | 1943-04-22  | 1943-04-23  |  United Kingdom |  Germany | Allies
Hill 609 | 1943-04-27  | 1943-05-1  |  United States | Allies
Operation Retribution | 1943-05-08  | 1943-05-13  |  United Kingdom
United States |  Germany
Italy | Allies
Attu | Aleutian Islands campaign | American Front | 1943-05-11  | 1943-05-30  |  United States
Canada |  Japan | Allies
Case Black | Yugoslavian Front | 1943-05-15  | 1943-06-16  |  Yugoslav Partisans |  Italy
Germany
Croatia
Bulgaria | Inconclusive
Operation Cartwheel | South West Pacific | Pacific War | 1943-06-30  | 1944-03-20  |  United States
Australia
New Zealand |  Japan | Allies
Kursk | Eastern Front | 1943-07-05  | 1943-08-23  |  Soviet Union |  Germany | Allies
Sicily | Italian Front | 1943-07-09  | 1943-08-17  |  United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Free France
Australia |  Italy
Germany | Allies
Smolensk (1943) | Eastern Front | 1943-08-07  | 1943-10-02  |  Soviet Union |  Germany | Allies
Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission | Operation Pointblank | Western Front | 1943-08-17  |  United States
United Kingdom |  Germany | Axis
Invasion of Italy | Italian Front | 1943-09-03  | 1943-09-17  |  United Kingdom
United States
Canada |  Germany
Italy | Allies
Tujak | Slovene Campaign | European Front | 1943-09-14  | 1943-09-19  |  Slovene Partisans |  ex-MVACs
Slovene Chetniks | Allies
Leros | Dodecanese Campaign | Mediterranean Front | 1943-09-26  | 1943-11-16  |  Italy
United Kingdom |  Germany | Axis
Kos | 1943-10-03  | 1943-10-04  | Axis
Black Thursday | Operation Pointblank | Western Front | 1943-10-14  |  United States | Axis
Kiev (1943) | Dnieper Campaign | Eastern Front | 1943-11-03  | 1943-11-13  |  Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia | Allies
Battle of Berlin (RAF campaign) | Bombing of Berlin | Western Front | 1943-11-18  | 1944-03-31  |

* United Kingdom
* United States
* Soviet Union
* France

|  Germany | Axis
Tarawa | Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign | Pacific War | 1943-11-20  | 1943-11-23  |  United States
United Kingdom |  Japan | Allies
Makin | 1943-11-24  |  United States
United Kingdom |  Japan | Allies
Bernhardt Line | Italian Campaign | 1943-12-01  | 1944-01-15  |  United Kingdom
United States
New Zealand
Canada
Free France |  Germany | Allies
Ortona | 1943-12-20  | 1943-12-28  |  Canada |  Germany | Allies
Monte Cassino | 1944-01-17  | 1944-05-18  |  United Kingdom

• India

• Newfoundland[1]

United States

Free France

Poland

Canada

New Zealand

South Africa

Italy

|  Germany

Italian Social Republic

| Allies
Anzio | Winter Line | Italian Front | 1944-01-22  | 1944-06-05  |  United States

United Kingdom

Canada

|  Germany

Italian Social Republic

| Allies
Cisterna | Anzio | 1944-01-30  | 1944-02-02  |  United States |  Germany | Axis
Kwajalein | Gilbert and Marshall Islands | Pacific War | 1944-01-31  | 1944-02-03  |  Japan | Allies
Admin Box | Burma Campaign | South-East Asian Front | 1944-02-05  | 1944-02-23  |  United Kingdom

* British Raj

|  Japan

* Azad Hind

| Allies
Eniwetok | Gilbert and Marshall Islands | Pacific War | 1944-02-17  | 1944-02-23  |  United States |  Japan | Allies
Imphal | Burma Campaign | South-East Asian Front, Pacific War | 1944-03-08  | 1944-08-3  |  British Empire

* India

|  Japan

* Azad Hind

| Allies
Kohima | 1944-04-04  | 1944-06-22  |  United Kingdom

* India
* Nepal

| Allies
Operation Rösselsprung (1944)  | Yugoslavia Campaign | European theatre | 1944-05-25  | 1944-05-27  |

* Yugoslav Partisans
* Balkan Air Force

* Germany
* Croatia
* Chetniks

| Allies
Changsha | Operation Ichi-Go | Second Sino-Japanese War, Pacific War | 1944-05-26  | 1944-08-08  |  China |  Japan | Axis
Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive | Continuation War | Eastern Front | 1944-06-10  | 1944-08-09  |  Soviet Union |  Finland
Germany | Allies
Nerva Island | 1944-06-19  | 1944-06-20  | Allies
Tienhaara | 1944-06-22  | Axis
Kaprolat and Hasselmann | 1944-06-25  | 1944-06-26  | Allies
Tali–Ihantala | 1944-07-09  | Axis
Gulf of Finland U-boat campaign | Baltic Sea campaigns | 1944 (summer)  | 1945 (spring)  |  Soviet Union
Finland | Allies w/ Finland
Vyborg Bay | Continuation War | 1944-06-30  | 1944-07-10  |  Soviet Union | Inconclusive
Vuosalmi | 1944-07-04  | 1944-07-17  |  Finland | Inconclusive
Nietjärvi | 1944-07-15  | Axis
Ilomantsi (1944) | 1944-07-26  | 1944-08-13  | Axis
Operation Hokki | 1944-07-31  | 1944-08-31  | Axis
Guilin–Liuzhou | Operation Ichi-Go | Second Sino-Japanese War, Pacific War | 1944-08-16  | 1944-11-24  |  China

United States (air support only)

|  Japan | Axis
Soviet submarine campaign (1944) | Baltic Sea campaigns | Eastern Front | 1944-10  | 1944-12  |  Soviet Union |  Germany | Allies
Monte Castello | Gothic Line Offensive | Italian Front | 1944-11-25  | 1944-12-12  |

* Brazil
* United States

| Allies
Soviet naval campaign (1945) | Baltic Sea campaigns | Eastern Front | 1945-01  | 1945-05-09  |  Soviet Union | Allies

## Battles from 1944

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### 1944

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• Operation Ichi-Go | Successful Japanese campaign to capture American air bases in China capable of sending bombers to Japan.

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• Operation Rösselsprung | German attempt to capture Tito using airborne troops.
• Battle of Normandy | Allies invade northern France (Operation Overlord), hard fighting from Cherbourg to Caen, Germans surrounded and destroyed at Falaise.
• Battle of Saipan | The battle was fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands and resulted disastrous for Japanese forces since most died.
• Second Battle of Guam | American forces capture back Guam.
• Battle of Tinian | American forces capture Tinian.
• Operation Bagration | Soviet offensive destroys German Army Group Center on the Eastern Front.
• Battle of Philippine Sea | Major carrier battle; US lose 123 planes and destroy 315 Japanese planes.
• Battle of Tali-Ihantala | Finnish stop Soviet offensive.
• Warsaw Uprising | 20,000 armed Poles against 55,000 Wehrmacht and SS. 90% of city destroyed, more than 250,000 casualties.
• Operation Dragoon | Allied invasion of Southern France.
• Battle of Debrecen | Soviets gain ground in Hungary but German and Hungarian forces manage to withdraw relatively intact after both sides suffer similar losses.
• Gothic Line offensive | British 8th Army and U.S. 5th Army attempt unsuccessfully to break into the north Italian plains.
• Battle of Arnhem | The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed.
• Battle of Peleliu | A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific.
• Battle of Aachen | Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion during World War II.
• Battle of the Scheldt | Decisive Canadian victory, solved the logistical problems of the Allies, and opened the port of Antwerp for supplies directly to the front.
• Battle of Crucifix Hill | The 18th Infantry, U.S. 1st Infantry Division take Crucifix Hill, a crucial position to help surround Aachen. Cpt. Bobbie E. Brown is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroics.
• Battle of Angaur | American forces capture an island in Palau.
• Battle of Hurtgen Forest | Stubborn German defense, appalling losses to US army.
• Battle of Leyte | American and Filipino guerrillas forces capture Leyte.
• Battle of Leyte Gulf | The largest air-sea battle in history.
• Operation Queen | was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the Western Front between Aachen and the Rur river.
• Battle of Mindoro |
• Battle of Vianden | The only major open battle fought between the Luxembourgish Resistance against German forces.
• Battle of the Bulge | German counterattack in Ardennes; General McAuliffe says "NUTS" at Bastogne.

### 1945

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• Battle of Luzon | The battle where Mexico entered World War II, contributing pilots to help the United States and the Philippines defeat Japan in the South Pacific, with a loss of 37,870 Allied soldiers and 217,000 Japanese soldiers; an Allied victory.

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• Operation Elephant | Allied offensive against a German bridgehead at Kapelsche Veer in the Netherlands.
• Raid at Cabanatuan | US Army Rangers rescue Bataan and Corregidor POWs from Japanese prison camp.
• Battle of Bataan | U.S. and Philippine Forces retake the historic Bataan Peninsula.
• Battle of Küstrin | Soviet forces besieged and captured the strategic fortress town of Küstrin, paving the way for the final assault on Berlin.
• Battle of Manila | City totally devastated after month-long battle between the American, Filipino, and Japanese forces; 100,000 civilians killed.
• Battle of Corregidor | Spectacular combined U.S. and Philippine assault retakes island bastion from Japanese forces.
• Raid at Los Baños | U.S. Airborne Task Force rescues more than 2,000 Allied POWs and civilian internees held by Japanese.
• Battle of Iwo Jima | After a month, U.S. Forces take main offshore Japanese island.
• Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay | Japanese defeated in Central Burma.
• Battle of Mindanao | U.S. Eighth Army together with the Philippine Commonwealth troops completes the recapture of Southern Philippines.
• Battle of the Visayas | U.S. Eighth Army together with the Philippine Commonwealth troops retakes central Philippine islands.
• Operation Varsity | 134 Allied gliders land troops in Weisel.
• Operation Spring Awakening | The last German offensive of the war, launched around Lake Balaton, in Hungary.
• Operation Encore | 10th Mountain Division and the Brazilian Expeditionary Force forced the German LI Mountain Corps from their positions in the Northern Apennines, leading to the start of the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy.
• Battle of West Henan–North Hubei | Indecisive battle between China and Japan. Japan controls airbases after battle.
• Battle of Groningen | Canadian forces capture Dutch city from SS troops.
• Battle of Montese | Brazilian forces capture town as part of the Spring offensive in Italy
• Battle of Otterlo | German forces attempt to break an encirclement by attacking Canadian and British forces.
• Battle of Halbe | Part of Battle of Berlin, Germans unable to break out.
• Battle of Berlin | Soviet forces encircle and capture German capital; Hitler commits suicide.
• Battle of Hamburg | British forces capture German city.
• Battle for Castle Itter | Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the 12th Armored Division, Wehrmacht, SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt Siegfried Schrader, and recently freed French prisoners of war defended Itter Castle against an attacking force from the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division.
• Prague Offensive | 1st, 4th, and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts of the Soviet Army crushed the last concentration of German troops (over 1,000,000 men in two army groups) in southeastern Germany and Czechoslovakia. These troops were Army Group Centre and the remnants of Army Group Ostmark.
• Battle of Trieste | British army and Yugoslav Partisans capture the city.
• Battle of Tarakan | Allied attack as part of the Borneo campaign.
• Battle of Poljana | (14–15 May 1945) Battle between Yugoslav partisans and HOS (Croatia), German Wehrmacht, Slovene Home Guard...
• Battle of Odžak | Last battle of World War II in Europe. Between Yugoslav partisans and HOS (Croatia) from 19 April to 25 May 1945.
• Battle of West Hunan | Chinese victory in final battle to expel Japan.
• Battle of Okinawa | US takes Japanese Island in the Ryūkyūs; many casualties to both sides.
• Battle of North Borneo | Australian victory during final stages of World War II in the Pacific.
• Battle of Balikpapan | Allied victory over Japan.
• Battle of Manchuria | Soviet forces liberate Manchuria.
• Surrender of Japan | Japan surrenders on September 2, 1945, officially ending World War II.

## African Front

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Main article: Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II

* North African campaign: June 1940 - May 1943
* Western Desert campaign: June 1940 – February 1943
* Italian invasion of Egypt: September 1940
* Operation Compass: December 1940 – February 1941
* Battle of Nibeiwa: December 1940
* Battle of Sidi Barrani: December 1940
* Siege of Giarabub: December 1940 – March 1941
* Battle of Bardia: January 1941
* Battle of Mechili: January 1941
* Capture of Kufra: January–March 1941
* Battle of Beda Fomm: February 1941
* Operation Sonnenblume: February–May 1941
* Siege of Tobruk: April–November 1941
* Bardia raid: April 1941
* Operation Brevity: May 1941
* Operation Skorpion: May 1941
* Operation Battleaxe: June 1941
* Twin Pimples raid: July 1941
* Operation Crusader: November–December 1941
* First Action at Bir el Gubi: November 1941
* Battle of Point 175: November–December 1941
* Second Action at Bir el Gubi: December 1941
* Battle of Gazala: May–June 1942
* Battle of Bir Hakeim: May–June 1942
* First Battle of El Alamein: July 1942
* Battle of Alam el Halfa: August–September 1942
* Second Battle of El Alamein: October–November 1942
* Battle of El Agheila: December 1942
* Operation Torch: November 1942
* Operation Terminal: 8 November 1942
* Naval Battle of Casablanca
* Tunisia Campaign: November 1942 – May 1943
* Battle of the Kasserine Pass: February 1943
* Battle of Sidi Bou Zid: February 1943
* Battle of Medenine: March 1943
* Battle of the Mareth Line: March 1943
* Battle of El Guettar: March–April 1943
* Operation Flax: April 1943
* Battle of Longstop Hill (1943): April 1943
* Battle of Hill 609: April–May 1943
* Operation Vulcan: May 1943
* Operation Retribution: May 1943
* Operation Strike: May 1943

## Mediterranean Sea and Italian Campaign

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Main article: Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II

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* Battle of the Mediterranean Sea: June 1940–May 1945.
* Battle of the Espero Convoy
* Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
* Battle of Calabria
* Battle of Cape Spada
* Battle of Cape Passero (1940)
* Battle of Taranto
* Battle of Cape Spartivento
* Operation Excess
* Raid on Souda Bay
* Battle of Cape Matapan
* Battle of the Tarigo Convoy
* Operation Substance
* Operation Halberd
* Battle of the Duisburg Convoy
* Battle of Cape Bon (1941)
* First Battle of Sirte
* Raid on Alexandria (1941)
* Second Battle of Sirte
* Operation Vigorous
* Operation Pedestal
* Battle of Skerki Bank
* Raid on Algiers
* Battle of the Cigno Convoy
* Battle of the Campobasso Convoy
* Battle of the Messina Convoy
* Operation Scylla
* Battle of the Ligurian Sea
* Siege of Malta: June 1940 – December 1942
* Balkan campaign: October 1940 – June 1941
* Italian Invasion of Greece: October 1940 – April 1941
*         * Battle of Pindus
* Battle of Elaia–Kalamas
* Battle of Morava–Ivan
* Battle of Korytsa
* Battle of Saranda
* Battle of Himara
* Capture of Klisura Pass
* Italian Spring Offensive
* Battle of Hill 731
* Axis invasion of Yugoslavia: April 1941
*         * Operation Retribution (1941)
* Hungarian Offensive
* Battle for Belgrade
* Yugoslav-Albania Front
* German invasion of Greece: April 1941
*         * Battle of the Metaxas Line
* Battle of Vevi (1941)
* Battle of Ptolemaida
* Battle of Kleisoura Pass
* Battle of Lake Kastoria
* Battle of Tempe Gorge
* Battle of Athens (1941)
* Battle of Thermopylae (1941)
* Battle of Crete: May 1941
* Battle of Rethymno
* Battle of 42nd Street
* Operation Agreement: September 1942
* Operation Strangle: March 1943 – June 1944

Dodecanese Campaign: September–October 1943

*     * Battle of Leros
* Battle of Kos
* Battle of Rhodes
* Allied invasion of Sicily: July–August 1943
* Operation Ladbroke
* Operation Fustian
* Operation Chestnut
* Operation Narcissus
* Battle of Centuripe
* Battle of Troina
* Gran Sasso raid
* Operation Slapstick
* Operation Baytown
* Allied invasion of Italy: September 1943
* Operation Avalanche September 1943
* Battle of Naples: September 1943
* Volturno Line: October–November 1943
* Operation Devon
* Barbara Line: October–November 1943
* Air Raid on Bari: December 1943
* Battle of San Pietro Infine: December 1943
* Battle of Monte la Difensa: December 1943
* Battle of Ortona: December 1943
* Bernhardt Line: December 1943 – January 1944
* Moro River Campaign: December 1943
* Battle of Rapido River January 1944
* Battle of Monte Cassino: January–May 1944
* Operation Diadem: January 1944
* Operation Carpetbagger: January 1944
* Operation Chettyford: January 1944
* Operations Ginny I and II February–March 1944
* Operation Strangle March–May 1944
* Battle of Anzio: January–June 1944
* Battle of Cisterna
* Invasion of Elba: June 1944
* Trasimene Line: June–July 1944
* Battle of Ancona: June–July 1944
* Hitler Line May 1944
* Senger line
* Operation Chesterfield
* Operation Dora
* Caesar C line May 1944
* Roman switch line May 1944
* Gothic Line: August–December 1944
* Green Line (Italy)
* Battle of Gemmano
* Battle of Rimini
* Battle of San Marino: September 1944
* Battle of Monte Battaglia: September-October 1944
* Battle of Garfagnana: December 1944
* Battle of Monte Castello: November 1944 – February 1945
* Operation Encore : February-March 1945
* Spring 1945 offensive in Italy: April–May 1945
* Battle of Bologna:
* Battle of the Argenta Gap:
* Battle of Montese
* Operation Buckleland
* Operation Herring
* Battle of Collecchio:

## Western Front

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Main article: Western Front (World War II)

* French offensive into Germany: September 1939
* Operation Weserübung: April–June 1940
* German Invasion of Denmark
* German invasion of Norway
* Battles of Narvik
* Battle of Drøbak Sound
* Battle of Midtskogen
* Battle of Dombås
* Battle of Hegra Fortress
* Åndalsnes landings
* Battle of Gratangen
* Battle of Høljarast Bridge
* Battle for Kvam
* Battle of Vinjesvingen
* Battle of the Netherlands: May 1940
* Battle for The Hague
* Battle of Rotterdam
* Battle of Mill
* Battle of Maastricht
* Battle of Zeeland
* Battle of the Grebbeberg
* Battle of the Afsluitdijk
* Rotterdam Blitz
* Battle of Belgium: May 1940
* Battle of Fort Eben-Emael
* Operation David
* Battle of Hannut
* Battle of Gembloux
* Battle of the Ypres–Comines Canal
* Battle of the Lys
* German invasion of Luxembourg: May 1940
* Battle of France: May–June 1940
* Battle of Sedan
* Battle of Montcornet
* Operation Cycle
* Battle of Arras
* Battle of Boulogne
* Siege of Calais
* Battle of Abbeville
* Siege of Lille
* German bombing of Paris
* Battle of Dunkirk
* Dunkirk evacuation
* Battle of Lagarde
* Battle of Saumur
* Italian invasion of France: June 1940
* Battle of Britain: July–October 1940
* Kanalkampf
* Adlertag
* The Hardest Day
* Battle of Britain Day
* Battle of Graveney Marsh
* Operation Felix: June – August 1940

* Aerial incidents in Switzerland in World War II (1940–1945)
* The Blitz: September 1940 – May 1941
* Operation Claymore March 1941
* Operation Archery December 1941
* Operation Claymore
* Operation Anklet December 1941
* Operation Cerberus: February 1942
* Operation Donnerkeil: February 1942
* St. Nazaire Raid: March 1942
* Operation Sportpalast March 1942
* Dieppe Raid: August 1942
* Oslo Mosquito Raid September 1942
* Operation Robinson October 1942
* Case Anton November 1942
* Operation Oyster December 1942
* Operation Ramrod 16 May 1943
* Operation Chastise May 1943
* Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission August 1943
* Battle of Isefjord August 1943
* Battle of Sept-Îles October 1943
* Second Schweinfurt raid Oktober 1943
* Battle of Berlin (air): November 1943 – March 1944
* Battle of the Bay of Biscay December 1943
* Operation Steinbock January – May 1944
* Operation Jericho February 1944
* Operation Argument February 1944
* Bombing of Nijmegen
* Operation Tungsten April 1944*
* Western Allied invasion of France: June 1944–March 1945
* Operation Overlord: June–August 1944
* Mission Boston
* Mission Detroit
* Mission Chicago
* Mission Albany
* Mission Elmira
* Mission Hackensack
* Brécourt Manor Assault
* Operation Bulbasket
* H-Hour (D-Day)
* Operation Gambit
* Battle of Merville Gun Battery
* Battle of Graignes
* Mulberry harbours
* Operation Loyton
* Operation Samwest
* Operation Tonga
* Normandy landings
* Omaha Beach
* Gold Beach
* Sword Beach
* Utah Beach
* Juno Beach
* Pointe du Hoc
* Bombing of Normandy
* Battle of Port-en-Bessin
* Operation Defoe
* Operation Dingson
* Battle of Douvres Radar Station
* Operation Accumulator
* Battle for Caen
* Operation Perch
* Battle of Villers-Bocage
* Operation Epsom
* Operation Martlet
* RAF raid on La Caine (1944)
* Operation Windsor
* Capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges
* Operation Charnwood
* Operation Jupiter
* Second Battle of the Odon
* Operation Goodwood
* Operation Goodwood (naval)
* Operation Atlantic
* Battle of Verrières Ridge
* Operation Spring
* Operation Postage Able
* Operation Paravane
* Operation Mascot
* Battle of Mairy
* Operation Obviate
* Bombardment of Mailly-le-Camp
* Battle of Cherbourg
* Bombardment of Cherbourg
* Operation Lost
* Battle of Dompaire
* Operation Jedburgh
* Operation Dunhill
* Operation Maple
* Battle of Carentan
* Battle of Bloody Gulch
* Battle of Saint-Lô
* Operation Cobra
* Operation Lüttich
* Operation Totalize
* Battle for Hill 140
* Falaise Pocket
* Operation Tractable
* Battle of Hill 262
* Battle of Chambois
* Liberation of Paris
* French Resistance
* Battle of Vercors
* Maquis du Mont Mouchet
* Operation Valkyrie: July 1944
* Operation Houndsworth
* Operation Haft
* Battle for Brittany
* Battle of Saint-Malo
* Battle for Brest
* Battle of Audierne Bay
* Operation Chastity
* Liberation of Rennes
* Operation Mallard
* Operation Cooney
* Battle of Ushant (1944)
* Operation Bluecoat
* Operation Dragoon: August–September 1944
*       * Battle of Marseille
* Mission Dove
* Operation Romeo
* Battle of Port Cros
* Operation Rugby
* Operation Span
* Battle of La Ciotat
* Battle of Toulon (1944)
* Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine: August 1944 – March 1945
* Clearing the Channel Coast: September–November 1944
* Operation Astonia
* Siege of Dunkirk (1944)
* Operation Wellhit
* Operation Undergo
* Operation Catechism
* Operation Pheasant
* Operation Colin
* Operation Alan – Battle of 's-Hertogenbosch
* Operation Rebound – Roosendaal to Willemstad
* Battle of the Scheldt
* Operation Switchback
* Operation Vitality
* Operation Infatuate
* Inundation of Walcheren
* Battle of Walcheren Causeway
* Operation Infatuate I
* Operation Infatuate II
* Royan pocket
* Lorraine Campaign: September–December 1944
* Battle of the Vosges (1944)
* Breskens Pocket
* Battle of Alsace
* Operation Pistol
* Battle of Nancy
* Battle of Metz
* Battle of Arracourt
* Liberation of Strasbourg
* Battle of Vianden
* Operation Market Garden: September 1944
* Battle of Arnhem
* Evacuation of Arnhem
* Operation Berlin (Arnhem)
* Battle of Nijmegen
* Battle of the Nijmegen salient
* Operation Hands Up
* Operation Marathon (World War II)
* Siege of Rochelle
* Operations Wallace and Hardy
* Battle of La Haye-du-Puits
* 6th Airborne Division advance to the River Seine/
* Liberation of Belgium
* Battle of the Mons pocket
* Battle of Geel
* Battle of Moerbrugge: September 1944
* Saint-Nazaire pocket
* Battle of Fort Driant September–October 1944
* Battle of Aachen: September–October 1944
* Battle of Crucifix Hill
* Battle of Overloon: September–October 1944
* Operation Kipling
* Battle of Hürtgen Forest: September–December 1944
* Operation Queen
* Aarhus Air Raid October 1944
* Operation Hurricane (1944) October 1944
* Operation Tigerfish: November 1944
* Putten raid
* Battle of Broekhuizen
* Operation Clipper: November 1944
* Battle of Vianden: November 1944
* Battle of Kesternich: December 1944 – February 1945
* Battle of the Bulge: December 1944 – January 1945
* Battle of Elsenborn Ridge
* Losheim Gap
* Battle of Lanzerath Ridge
* Battle of Clervaux
* Siege of Bastogne
* Battle of Bure
* Battle of Heartbreak Crossroads
* Operation Stösser
* Operation Zahnarzt
* Operation Grief
* Battle of St. Vith
* Operation Bodenplatte
* Second Battle of the Alps
* Defense of the Redoute Ruinée (1945) December 1944 - April 1945
* Operation Nordwind: December 1944 - January 1945
* Colmar Pocket
* Operation Blackcock: January 1945
* Operation Veritable: February 1945
* Operation Grenade: February 1945
* Operation Lumberjack
* Battle of Remagen
* Operation Carthage March 1945
* Granville Raid
* Western Allied invasion of Germany: March–May 1945
* Operation Undertone
* Operation Plunder
* Battle of Frankfurt
* Operation Varsity
* Ruhr Pocket
* Battle of Kassel
* Battle of Heilbronn
* Operation Amherst
* Battle of Würzburg (1945)
* Battle of Nuremberg
* Battle of Hamburg
* Battle of Castle Itter
* Battle of Mont-Cenis
* Battle of Authion
* Liberation of Arnhem
* Battle of Cologne (1945)
* Operation Judgement (1945) May 1945
* Battle of Groningen
* Battle of Otterlo

Operation Blackout

## Atlantic Ocean

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* Battle of the Atlantic: 1939–1945
* Battle of the River Plate
* Altmark Incident
* Convoy SC 7
* Convoy HX 84
* Operation Berlin
* Action of 4 April 1941
* Action of 9 May 1941
* Battle of the Denmark Strait
* Battle of the Bismarck
* Operation Drumbeat
* Battle of Torpedo Alley
* Action of 27 March 1942
* Battle of the St. Lawrence
* Action of 6 June 1942
* Convoy PQ 17
* Naval Battle of Casablanca
* Battle of the Barents Sea
* Battle of Sept-Îles
* Battle of the North Cape
* Operation Stonewall
* Battle of the Bay of Biscay
* Operation Teardrop
* Battle of Ushant
* Battle of Pierres Noires
* Action of 9 February 1945
* Battle of Point Judith

## Eastern Front

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Main article: Eastern Front (World War II)

* Sudeten German uprising: September–October 1938
* German-Czechoslovak war
* Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)
* German Invasion of Poland September–October 1939
* Battle of Westerplatte
* Battle of Mokra
* Battle of Mlawa
* Battle of Tuchola Forest
* Battle of Jordanów
* Battle of Borowa Góra
* Battle of Grudziądz
* Battle of Wizna
* Battle of Radom
* Battle of Piotrków Trybunalski
* Battle of Hel
* Battle of the Bzura
* Siege of Warsaw
* Battle of Lwów
* Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski
* Battle of Krasnobród
* Battle of Kock
* Soviet invasion of Poland: September–October 1939
* Battle of Wilno
* Battle of Grodno
* Battle of Husynne
* Battle of Wladypol
* Battle of Szack
* Battle of Wytyczno
* Winter war: November 1939 – March 1940
* Battle of Suomussalmi
* Battle of Summa
* Battle of Ilomantsi (1939)
* Battle of Raate Road
* Battle of Kollaa
* Battle of Taipale
* Battle of Honkaniemi
* Battle of Varolampi Pond
* Battle of Petsamo
* Battle of Kelja
* Battle of Kuhmo
* Battle of Vyborg Bay (1940)
* Salla
* Axis invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) June–December 1941
* Defense of Brest Fortress June 1941
* Battle of Białystok-Minsk June 1941
* Operation Rentier
* Baltic Operation
* Battle of Raseiniai
* Battle of Brody June 1941
* Continuation War
* Battle of Vyborg (1941)
* Battle of Porlampi
* Finnish invasion of East Karelia (1941)
* Operation Silver Fox
* Operation Platinum Fox
* Operation Arctic Fox July–November 1941
* Battle of Bengtskär
* Operation EF (1941) July 1941
* Battle of Smolensk (1941)
* Battle of Uman
* Siege of Odessa (1941)
* Battle of Kiev (1941)
* Bombing of Tallinn in World War II
* Operation Beowulf
* Gulf of Riga campaign
* Evacuation of Tallinn (1941)
* Yelnya Offensive
* Battle of the Sea of Azov
* Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
* Nevsky Pyatachok
* Sinyavino Offensive (1942)
* Battle of Bryansk (1941) October 1941
* Battle of Hanko (1941)
* Crimean Campaign (1941)
* First Battle of Kharkov
* Battle at Borodino Field October 1941 – January 1942
* Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)
* Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
* Battle of Rostov
* Battle of Moscow
* Operation Uzice: September–November 1941
* Soviet Winter counter-offensive: December 1941 – May 1942
* Battles of Rzhev
* Operation Büffel
* Toropets-Kholm Operation
* Demyansk Pocket
* Second Battle of Kharkov
* Operation Kremlin
* Axis Summer offensive: June–November 1942
* Operation Braunschweig: July–November 1942
* Battle of Voronezh (1942)
* Operation Nordlicht (1942)
* Battle of the Caucasus
* Malaya Zemlya
* Battle of Kalach
* Battle of Stalingrad July 1942 – February 1943
* Battle of Someri
* Battle of Suursaari
* Battle of Sukho Island
* Operation Uranus: November 1942
* Operation Mars: November–December 1942
* Operation Little Saturn: December 1942 – February 1943
* Tatsinskaya Raid
* Operation Winter Storm: December 1942
* Battle for Velikiye Luki (1943)
* Operation Iskra
* Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda
* Battle of Krasny Bor
* Ostrogozhsk-Rossosh Operation
* Battle of Nikolayevka
* Operation Star
* Operation Koltso
* Operation Gallop
* Battle of Sokolovo
* Battle of Voronezh (1943)
* Operation Büffel
* Third Battle of Kharkov
* Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
* Operation Citadel:[2] July–August 1943
* Battle of Kursk
* Battle of Prokhorovka
* Operation Kutuzov
* Donbas strategic offensive (July 1943)
* Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943)
* Operation Tidal Wave
* Battle of Smolensk (1943)
* Battle of Lenino
* Fourth Battle of Kharkov
* Battle of Belgorod
* Orsha offensives (1943)
* Białystok Ghetto Uprising: August 1943
* Battle of the Dnieper: August–December 1943
* Battle of Kiev (1943)
* Melitopol offensive
* Operation Concert: September 1943
* Gorodok offensive
* Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive: December 1943 – April 1944
* Zhitomir–Berdichev Offensive
* Korsun Pocket
* Uman–Botoșani Offensive
* Kirovograd offensive
* Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive
* Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive
* Polesskoe offensive
* Odessa Offensive
* Kamenets-Podolsky pocket
* Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive
* Staraya Russa – Novorzhev Offensive
* Krasnoye Selo–Ropsha Offensive
* Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive
* Novgorod–Luga offensive
* Rovno-Lutsk Offensive
* Rogachev–Zhlobin offensive
* Battle of Narva (1944): February–August 1944
* Battle for Narva Bridgehead
* Battle of Auvere
* Narva Offensive (15–28 February 1944)
* Narva Offensive (1–4 March 1944)
* Narva offensive (18–24 March 1944)
* Narva Offensive (July 1944)
* Battle of Tannenberg Line
* Operation Margarethe
* Crimean Offensive (1944)
* Kerch–Eltigen operation
* Operation 60,000
* Shyaulyay Offensive
* Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive
* Operation Bagration: June–August 1944
* Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive
* Mogilev Offensive
* Bobruysk Offensive: June 1944
* Minsk Offensive
* Battle of Studzianki
* Polotsk Offensive
* Šiauliai Offensive
* Vilnius Offensive
* Belostock Offensive: July 1944
* Lublin–Brest Offensive
* Kaunas Offensive
* Osovets Offensive
* Battle of the Bay of Viipuri: June–July 1944
* Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive
* Kraków Uprising (1944)
* Battle of Radzymin (1944)
* Sandomierz bridgehead
* Operation Tempest
* Lwów uprising
* Operation Ostra Brama
* Warsaw Uprising
* Raid on Truskaw
* Battle of Jaktorów
* "W" Hour
* Battle of Pęcice
* Defense of Pociecha
* Battle of Studzianki
* Operation Doppelkopf
* Operation Cäsar
* Tartu offensive
* Battle of Romania: April–October 1944
* First Jassy–Kishinev Offensive
* Battle of Târgu Frumos
* First Battle of Târgu Frumos
* Battle of Podu Iloaiei
* Second Battle of Târgu Frumos
* Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive
* Operation Margarethe II
* Operation Reunion
* Battle of Turda
* Battle of Păuliș
* Battle of Carei
* Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive
* Battle of Nerva Island
* Battle of Tienhaara
* Kaprolat
* VKT-line
* Battle of Tali–Ihantala
* Battle of Vyborg Bay (1944)
* Battle of Vuosalmi
* Battle of Nietjärvi
* Battle of Ilomantsi (1944)
* Operation Hokki
* Slovak National Uprising
* Operation Scherhorn
* Battle of the Dukla Pass
* Baltic Offensive
* Riga Offensive (1944)
* Tallinn Offensive
* Battle of Porkuni
* Moonsund Landing Operation
* Battle of Tehumardi
* Battle of Memel
* Liberation of Finnmark
* Battle of Serbia
* Belgrade Offensive
* Niš operation
* Lapland war
* Battle of Olhava
* Operation Tanne Ost
* Battle of Rovaniemi
* Battle of Tornio
* Operation Nordlicht (1944–1945)
* Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive
* Battle of Debrecen
* Operation Panzerfaust
* Courland Pocket
* Gumbinnen Operation
* Budapest Offensive: October 1944 – February 1945
* Siege of Budapest: December 1944 – February 1945
* Operation Konrad
* Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army: April 1944 – October 1945
* Operation Hannibal
* Vistula–Oder Offensive: January–February 1945
* Battle of Poznań (1945)
* East Prussian Offensive
* Heiligenbeil Pocket
* Battle of Königsberg
* Defense of Schwedt Bridgehead
* Silesian Offensives
* Lower Silesian Offensive
* Siege of Breslau: February–May 1945
* Upper Silesian Offensive
* Operation Solstice
* East Pomeranian Offensive
* Battle of Kolberg
* Siege of Danzig (1945)
* Operation Spring Awakening
* Battle of the Transdanubian Hills
* Nagykanizsa–Körmend Offensive
* Vienna Offensive
* Bratislava–Brno offensive
* Samland Offensive
* Battle of Berlin: April–May 1945
* Battle of the Oder-Neisse
* Battle of the Seelow Heights
* Battle of Halbe
* Battle of Bautzen (1945): April 1945
* Prague Offensive
* Battle of Odzak: 19 April – 25 May 1945

### Yugoslav Partisans and Albania

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* World War II in Yugoslavia
* Invasion of Yugoslavia: April 1941
* Operation Retribution (1941)
* Mačva operation
* Capture of Banja Koviljača
* Siege of Kraljevo
* Capture of Olovo (1941)
* Operation Uzice September - November 1941
* Battle of Trešnjica
* Battle of Novi Pazar
* Battle of Pljevlja
* Siege of Rogatica (1941)
* Operation Mihailovic December 1941
* Operation Southeast Croatia
* Battle of Dražgoše: January 1942
* Operation Prijedor
* Operation Hydra (Yugoslavia)
* Battle of Nanos
* Operation Trio April - May 1942
* Operation Alfa
* Battle of Dolnij Poloj
* Battle of Kupres (1942)
* Operation Kopaonik October 1942
* Bihać operation
* Kozara Offensive
* Battle of Gračac: January 1943
* Operation Otto (1943)
* Battle of Grčarice
* Case White
* Kurtez ambush
* Case Black: May - June 1943
* Battle of Zvornik
* Siege of Turjak
* Operation Cloudburst
* Battle of Višegrad
* Battle of Drashovica
* Battle of Pezë (1943)
* Operation Delphin
* Operation Kugelblitz
* Battle of Kočevje
* Bombardment of Zagreb February 1944–March 1945
* Raid on Mljet: April 1944
* Raid on Šolta
* Bombing of Belgrade (1944)
* Operation Rösselsprung (1944)
* Operation Halyard
* Operation Draufgänger
* Raid at Ožbalt
* Operation Ratweek (1944)
* Battle of Serbia September - October 1944
* Belgrade offensive
* Niš operation
* First Battle of Preševo
* Second Battle of Preševo
* Operation Floxo
* Stracin–Kumanovo operation
* Battle of Vukov Klanac
* Kosovo Operation (1944)
* Liberation of Tirana
* Syrmian Front: October 1944 - April 1945
* Bregalnitsa–Strumica operation
* Battle of Knin
* Battle of Batina
* Battle of Desivojca December 1944
* Battle of Trnovo: January 1945
* Operation Spring Awakening
* Lika-Primorje operation
* Mostar operation
* Sarajevo Operation
* Nagykanizsa–Körmend offensive
* Battle of Odžak
* Battle of Poljana: May 1945

### Greece

[edit]

* German invasion of Greece: April - June 1941
* Battle of the Metaxas Line
* Battle of Vevi (1941)
* Battle of the Corinth Canal
* Battle of Lake Kastoria
* Battle of Kleisoura Pass: April 1941
* Battle of Crete: May - June 1941
* Battle of Maleme
* Battle of Rethymno
* Battle of Heraklion
* Greek Resistance
* Operation Harling: November 1942
* Battle of Leivadi
* Battle of Meritsa
* Battle of Fardykambos: March 1943
* Battle of Trahili
* Battle of Porta
* Battle of Sarantaporos (1943)
* Battle of Kokkinia: March 1944
* Raid on Santorini
* Battle of Amfilochia
* Battle of Chora - Agorelitsa
* Battle of Menina
* Damasta sabotage
* Battle of Karoutes
* Battle of Kalamata (1944) September 1944
* Battle of Meligalas
* Battle of Kilkis (1944)
* Operation Manna: October 1944
* Dekemvriana: December 1944

## Indian Ocean

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* Attack on Convoy BN 7: October 1940
* Action of 27 February 1941
* Action of 8 May 1941
* Japanese occupation of the Andaman Islands: 1942–1945
* Battle of Christmas Island: March–April 1942
* Indian Ocean raid: March–April 1942
* Easter Sunday Raid: April 1942
* Battle of Madagascar: May–November 1942
* Cocos Island Mutiny: May 1942
* Battle of La Réunion: November 1942
* Indian Ocean raid (1944): March 1944

## Pacific Front

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Main article: Pacific War

* Battles of Khalkhin Gol May–September 1939
* Japanese attacks on the U.S. or U.S. unincorporated territories
* Attack on Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941
* Niihau Incident
* Battle of Guam (1941): December 1941
* Battle of Wake Island: December 1941
* Japanese occupation of Philippines: December 1941 – May 1942
* Japanese invasion of Batan Island, December 1941
* Japanese invasion of Vigan, December 1941
* Japanese invasion of Aparri, December 1941
* Japanese invasion of Legazpi, December 1941
* Japanese invasion of Davao, December 1941
* Japanese invasion of Lingayen Gulf, December 1941
* Japanese invasion of Lamon Bay, December 1941
* Battle of Bataan (1942), January–April 1942
* Battle of Corregidor: May 1942
* Battle of Dutch Harbor: June 1942
* Battle of Midway: June 1942
* Japanese occupation of Kiska: June 1942
* Japanese occupation of Attu: June 1942
* Japanese occupation of Hong Kong: December 1941
* Japanese occupation of Dutch East Indies: December 1941 – March 1942
* Battle of Borneo (1941–42)
* Battle of Tarakan (1942)
* Battle of Balikpapan (1942)
* Battle of Manado (1942)
* Battle of Ambon (1942)
* Battle of Makassar Strait (1942)
* Battle of Palembang (1942)
* Battle of Badung Strait (1942)
* Battle of Timor (1942–43)
* Battle of the Java Sea (1942)
* Battle of Sunda Strait (1942)
* Battle of Java (1942)
* Second Battle of the Java Sea (1942)
* Japanese Invasion of Rabaul, January–February 1942
* Japanese attacks on Australia: February–June 1942
* Bombing of Darwin: February 1942
* Attack on Broome: March 1942
* Attack on Sydney Harbour: May–June 1942
* Raid on Darwin: May 1943
* Japanese Invasion of Salamaua–Lae, March 1942
* Japanese Invasion of Tulagi, May 1942
* Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942
* Battle of Midway, June 1942
* Japanese Invasion of Buna-Gona, July 1942
* Kokoda Track campaign, July–November 1942
* Battle of Kokoda
* Battle of Isurava, August 1942
* First Battle of Eora Creek – Templeton's Crossing, August–September 1942
* Battle of Mission Ridge – Brigade Hill,
* Battle of Ioribaiwa, September 1942
* Second Battle of Eora Creek – Templeton's Crossing, October 1942
* Battle of Oivi–Gorari, November 1942
* Battle of Milne Bay, August–September 1942
* Guadalcanal Campaign: August 1942 – February 1943
* Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo, August 1942
* Battle of Savo Island, August 1942
* Makin Island raid, August 1942
* Battle of the Tenaru: August 1942
* Battle of the Eastern Solomons, August 1942
* Battle of Edson's Ridge: September 1942
* Actions along the Matanikau: September–October 1942
* Battle of Cape Esperance, October 1942
* Battle for Henderson Field: October 1942
* Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942
* Matanikau Offensive: November 1942
* Koli Point action: November 1942
* Carlson's Patrol: November–December 1942
* Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. November 1942
* Battle of Tassafaronga, November 1942
* Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse: December 1942
* Battle of Rennell Island: January 1943
* New Guinea campaign: October 1942 – August 1945
* Battle of Goodenough Island, October 1942
* Battle of Buna–Gona, November 1942 – January 1943
* Battle of Wau, January 1943
* Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March 1943
* Salamaua–Lae campaign, April–September 1943
* Battle of Mubo, April–July 1943
* Battle of Bobdubi, April–August 1943
* Battle of Lababia Ridge, June 1943
* Landing at Nassau Bay, June–July 1943
* Battle of Roosevelt Ridge, July–August 1943
* Battle of Mount Tambu, July–August 1943
* Landing at Lae, September 1943
* Landing at Nadzab, September
* Finisterre Range campaign, September 1943 – April 1944
* Huon Peninsula campaign, September 1943 – March 1944
* Landing at Scarlet Beach, September–October 1943
* Battle of Finschhafen, September–October 1943
* Battle of Sattelberg, November 1943
* Battle of Wareo, November–December 1943
* Landing on Long Island, December 1943
* Battle of Sio, December 1943 - March 1944
* Landing at Saidor, January–February 1944
* Landing on Emirau, March 1944
* Battle of Madang, February–April 1944
* Bougainville Campaign, November 1943 – August 1945
* Battle of Koromokina Lagoon November 1943
* Battle for Piva Trail November 1943
* Battle of the Coconut Grove November 1943
* Raid on Koiari November 1943
* Battle of Hellzapoppin Ridge and Hill 600A December 1943
* Neutralisation of Rabaul January-February 1944
* Torokina Airfield March 1944
* Piva Airfield March 1944
* Battle of the Green Islands February 1944
* Bougainville counterattack March 1944
* Battle of the Perimeter March 1944
* New Britain campaign, December 1943 – August 1945
* Battle of Arawe December 1943 - February 1944
* Battle of Cape Gloucester: December 1943 – April 1944
* Battle of Talasea March 1944
* Landing at Jacquinot Bay November 1944
* Battle of Wide Bay–Open Bay December 1944 - April 1945
* Admiralty Islands campaign, February–May 1944
* Western New Guinea campaign, April 1944 – August 1945
* Landing at Aitape Apri-May 1944
* Battle of Hollandia April-June 1944
* Battle of Wakde May 1944
* Battle of Lone Tree Hill May-September 1944
* Battle of Biak May-August 1944
* Battle of Noemfoor July-August 1944
* Battle of Driniumor River July-August 1944
* Battle of Sansapor July-August 1944
* . Battle of Morotai September-October 1944
* Aitape-Wewak campaign 1944-1945
* Aleutian Islands Campaign, March–August 1943
* Battle of the Komandorski Islands: March 1943
* Battle of Attu: May 1943
* Operation Vengeance: April 1943
* Solomon Islands Campaign, June–November 1943
* New Georgia Campaign, June–August 1943
* Battle of Kula Gulf: July 1943
* Battle of Kolombangara: July 1943
* Battle of Vella Gulf: August 1943
* Land Battle of Vella Lavella: August–October 1943
* Naval Battle of Vella Lavella: October 1943
* Battle of Empress Augusta Bay: November 1943
* Battle of Cape St. George: November 1943
* Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, November 1943 – February 1944
* Battle of Tarawa, November 1943
* Battle of Makin, November 1943
* Battle of Kwajalein, February 1944
* Attack on Truk, February 1944
* Battle of Eniwetok, February 1944
* Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, June–November 1944
* Battle of Saipan, June 1944
* Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944
* Battle of Guam (1944), July–August 1944
* Battle of Tinian, July–August 1944
* Battle of Peleliu, September–November 1944
* Battle of Angaur, September–October 1944
* Formosa Air Battle, October 1944
* Philippines Campaign (1944–45): October 1944 – September 1945
* Battle of Leyte: October–December 1944
* Battle of Leyte Gulf: October 1944
* Battle off Samar: 25 October 1944
* Battle of Ormoc Bay: November–December 1944
* Battle of Mindoro December 1944
* Battle of Luzon: January–August 1945
* Battle of Manila (1945): February–March 1945
* Battle of Bacsil Ridge: March 1945
* Battle of Mindanao: March–Aug 1945
* Battle for Cebu City: March–Apr 1945
* Battle of Iwo Jima: February–March 1945
* Battle of Okinawa: April–June 1945
* Battle of Balikpapan (1945): July 1945
* Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: August 1945
* Soviet invasion of Manchuria August 1945
* Battle of Mutanchiang August 1945
* Seishin Operation
* Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin
* Invasion of the Kuril Islands
* Kyūjō incident

## China Front

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* 1931–1945 Sino-Japanese War (September 1931 – September 1945)
* Japanese invasion of Manchuria September 1931 - February 1932
* Mukden Incident September 1931
* Jiangqiao campaign November 1931
* Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge November 1931
* Jinzhou Operation December 1931 - January 1932
* Defense of Harbin January 1932 - February 1932
* January 28 incident January–March 1932
* Pacification of Manchukuo November 1931 - February 1942
* Inner Mongolian campaign April 1933 - December 1936
* Defense of the Great Wall February–March 1933
* Battle of Rehe February–March 1933
* Suiyuan campaign October–November 1936
* Marco Polo Bridge Incident July 1937
* Battle of Beiping–Tianjin July–August 1937
* Battle of Shanghai August 1937
* Defense of Sihang Warehouse October 26, 1937
* Beiping–Hankou Railway Operation August 1937
* Tianjin–Pukou Railway Operation August 1937
* Battle of Taiyuan September 1937
* Battle of Pingxingguan September 1937
* Battle of Xinkou September 1937
* Battle of Nanjing December 1937
* Battle of Xuzhou February – May 1938
* Battle of Taierzhuang March 1938
* Bombing of Chongqing February 1938 - August 1943
* Taihoku Air Strike February 1938
* Battle of Northern and Eastern Henan February–June 1938
* Battle of Lanfeng May 1938
* Amoy Operation May 1938
* Battle of Wuhan June 1938
* Battle of Wanjialing August 1938
* Canton Operation October 1938
* Hainan Island Operation February 1939
* Battle of Nanchang March 1939
* Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang May 1939
* Swatow Operation June 1939
* First Battle of Changsha September–October 1939
* Battle of South Guangxi November 1939
* Battle of Kunlun Pass December 1939
* 1939–1940 Winter Offensive November 1939
* Battle of West Suiyuan January–February 1940
* Battle of Wuyuan March 1940
* Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang May 1940
* Hundred Regiments Offensive August 1940
* Central Hupei Operation November 1940
* Battle of South Henan January 1941
* New Fourth Army Incident January 1941
* Western Hopei Operation March 1941
* Battle of Shanggao March 1941
* Battle of South Shanxi May 1941
* Second Battle of Changsha September–October 1941
* Third Battle of Changsha December 1941 - January 1942
* Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi May–September 1942
* Battle of West Hubei May–June 1943
* Linnan Campaign August 1943
* Battle of Changde November–December 1943
* Operation Ichi-Go April–December 1944
* Battle of Central Henan April 1944
* Fourth Battle of Changsha May–June 1944
* Defense of Hengyang June–August 1944
* Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou August–November 1944
* Battle of Mount Song June–September 1944
* Battle of West Henan–North Hubei March 1945  — May 1945
* Battle of West Hunan April 1945  – June 1945
* Second Guangxi Campaign April–August 1945
* Soviet invasion of Manchuria August 1945
* Battle of Mutanchiang August 1945

## Southeast Asia Front

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* Franco-Thai War: October 1940 – January 1941
* Battle of Ko Chang: January 1941
* Japanese invasion of Thailand: December 1941
* Battle of Lạng Sơn: September 1940
* Battle of Prachuap Khiri Khan: December 1941
* Japanese-Thai occupation of Malaya: December 1941 – January 1942
* Battle of Kota Bharu
* Battle for the ledge
* Naval Battle of Malaya
* Battle of Jitra
* Battle of Kampar
* Battle of Slim River
* Battle of Muar
* Battle of Gemas
* Battle off Endau
* Bombing of Bangkok: 1942–1945
* Japanese occupation of Singapore: February 1942
* Bombing of Singapore (1941)
* Battle of Sarimbun Beach
* Battle of Kranji
* Battle of Bukit Timah
* Battle of Pasir Panjang
* Burma Campaign
* Japanese-Thai occupation of Burma: January–May 1942
* Bombing of Rangoon (1941–1942)
* Battle of Bilin River
* Battle of Sittang Bridge
* Battle of Pegu
* Taukkyan Roadblock
* Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road
* Battle of Tachiao
* Battle of Oktwin
* Battle of Toungoo
* Battle of Yenangyaung
* Burma Campaign 1942–43
* Arakan Campaign 1942–1943
* Chindits Raid
* Burma Campaign 1944
* Battle of the Admin Box
* Siege of Myitkyina
* Japanese invasion of India: March–June 1944
* Battle of Imphal
* Battle of Sangshak
* Battle of Kohima
* Burma Campaign 1944–1945
* Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
* Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay
* Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations
* Battle of Hill 170
* Battle of Ramree Island
* Operation Dracula
* Battle of Elephant Point
* Allies bombing of South-East Asia: 1944–1945
* Operation Matterhorn: 1944
* Battle of the Malacca Strait: May 1945
* Operation Tiderace: September 1945

## Military engagements during occupations

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* Occupation of Denmark
* Operation Safari
* Battle of Isefjord
* Occupation of Norway
* Telavåg tragedy

## Resistances

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* Danish resistance
* Norwegian resistance
* Greek resistance
* Battle of Fardykambos
* Moldovan resistance

## Naval engagements

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General

* Arctic Convoys
* Battle of the Atlantic – the name given to the conflict in the Atlantic Ocean between 1939 and 1945.
* see also Timeline of the Battle of the Atlantic
* Battle of the Mediterranean
* Battle of the Indian Ocean

Specific

1940

* First Battle of Narvik
* Second Battle of Narvik

1941

* Battle of Cape Matapan
* Battle of Pearl Harbor

1942

* Battle of the Coral Sea
* Battle of Midway
* Battle of Guadalcanal

1943

* Battle of the Komandorski Islands

1944

* Battle of Leyte Gulf

1945

* Operation Ten-Go

## Major bombing campaigns

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General

* Strategic bombing during World War II
* Strategic bombing survey for the overall impact of the bombing.

Specific

* Baedeker raids
* Chungking
* Coventry
* Operation Retribution (1941) – bombing of Belgrade during 1941.
* Broome – Japanese raid on the town of Broome, targeting the airfield.
* Dresden
* Darwin – Japanese target the harbour.
* Hamburg
* Helsinki – February 1944, was mostly ineffective due to air defence and deception.
* Hiroshima – One nuclear weapon, Little Boy dropped from a B-29, devastating a city.
* Kassel
* London – "The Blitz" and the V-1 and V-2 campaigns
* Lübeck
* Nagasaki – One nuclear weapon, Fat Man dropped from a B-29, devastating a city.
* Narva – March 1944. Evacuated town was destroyed by Soviet ADD.
* Pearl Harbor
* Rostock – Heinkel Airplane Construction Plant, Seaport, and City
* Rotterdam
* Stalingrad – 23 August 1942
* Tallinn – February–March 1944. Bombed by Soviet ADD. Large-scale damage.
* Tokyo – Several devastating raids.
* Warsaw

## Operations

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Main article: List of World War II military operations

### Raids

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Small to medium-sized raiding operations were carried out by both Allied and Axis armies during World War II. The modus operandi used included guerrilla attacks by partisans in occupied territory and/or combined operations involving the landing and removal of specialised light infantry, such as commandos, by means of small boats.

* Allied
* Operation Colossus
* 10 February 1941
* Experimental raid by 38 British Commandos on a fresh water aqueduct near Calitri in southern Italy.
* Operation Claymore
* 4 March 1941
* 1000 Men from the British Commandos and belonging to the Norwegian Independent Company 1 destroy fish oil factories on the remote islands off the coast of Norway.
* Operation Archery
* 27 December 1941
* 570 men from the British Commandos and belonging to the Norwegian Independent Company 1 raid and attack German positions on Vågsøy Island in Norway.
* Battle of Timor
* 19 February 1942 – 10 February 1943
* Continuous raids from Australian commandos against the occupying Japanese.
* Operation Chariot
* 28 March 1942
* 196 Royal Navy and Army Commando units raid and destroy the heavily defended docks of St. Nazaire in occupied France.
* Dieppe Raid
* 19 August 1942
* Over 6,000 infantrymen, mostly Canadian attempted to seize and hold the port of Dieppe.
* Makin Island raid, 17–18 August 1942
* Operation Jaywick, September 1943
* Operation Jedburgh, 1944
* Operation Roast, April 1945
* Axis
* Operation Greif, December 1944

Raiding units

* Allied
* Multinational
* Chindits
* Devil's Brigade
* Z Special Unit
* Popski's Private Army
* Gideon Force
* Australia
* Australian Army Independent Companies
* France
* Far East French Expeditionary Forces
* Intervention Light Corps
* Greece
* Sacred Band
* United Kingdom
* Long Range Desert Group
* Special Air Service
* Royal Marines
* Special Operations Executive
* British Army Commandos
* Layforce
* British Paratroopers
* United States
* Marine Raiders
* US Army Rangers
* Alamo Scouts
* Merrill's Marauders
* Axis
* Nazi Germany
* Brandenburger Regiment
* Waffen-SS (commando force led by Otto Skorzeny).
* Fascist Italy
* Decima Flottiglia MAS
* Empire of Japan
* Special Naval Landing Forces

## Defensive lines

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* Atlantic Wall
* Caesar Line
* GHQ Line
* Gothic Line
* Gustav Line
* Maginot Line
* Mannerheim Line
* Metaxas Line
* Siegfried Line
* Taunton Stop Line

## Contemporaneous wars

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* Chinese Civil War
* Ecuadorian–Peruvian War
* Greek Civil War
* Second Italo-Abyssinian War
* Soviet-Japanese Border War (1939)
* Spanish Civil War
* Waziristan campaign (1936–1939)
* Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947

## References

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1. ^ Earle, Neil. "Remembering the battle for Monte Cassino, and the role played by Newfoundlanders". SaltWire. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
2. ^ "The Battle of Kursk"

## See also

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* Campaigns of World War II
* Participants in World War II
* List of World War II military operations
* List of battles 1901–2000

* v
* t
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* Outline
* Battles
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* Casualties
* Conferences

General|

| Topics|

* Air warfare of World War II
* In Europe
* Blitzkrieg
* Comparative military ranks
* Cryptography
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Theaters|

* Asia and Pacific
* China
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* Pacific
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* South-West Pacific
* Indian Ocean
* Europe
* Western Front
* Eastern Front
* Mediterranean and Middle East
* North Africa
* East Africa
* Italy
* West Africa
* Atlantic
* timeline
* Americas

Aftermath|

* Chinese Civil War
* Cold War
* Decolonization
* Division of Korea
* First Indochina War
* Expulsion of Germans
* Greek Civil War
* Indonesian National Revolution
* Keelhaul
* Marshall Plan
* Occupation of Germany
* Occupation of Japan
* Osoaviakhim
* Paperclip
* Soviet occupations
* Baltic
* Hungary
* Poland
* Romania
* Territorial changes of Germany
* Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany
* United Nations

War crimes|

* Allied war crimes
* Soviet war crimes
* Atrocities against prisoners of war
* British war crimes
* United States war crimes
* German war crimes
* forced labour
* Wehrmacht war crimes
* The Holocaust
* Aftermath
* Response
* Nuremberg trials
* Italian war crimes
* Japanese war crimes
* Nanjing Massacre
* Unit 731
* Prosecution
* Croatian war crimes
* Genocide of Serbs
* Persecution of Jews
* Romanian war crimes
* Sexual violence
* German military brothels
* Camp brothels
* Rape during the occupation of Germany / Japan / Poland / Manchuria
* Rape during the liberation of France / Serbia
* Sook Ching
* Comfort women
* Rape of Manila
* Marocchinate

Participants|

| Allies|

* Algeria
* Australia
* Belgium
* Brazil
* Bulgaria (from September 1944)
* Canada
* China
* Cuba
* Czechoslovakia
* Denmark
* Ethiopia
* Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
* Finland (from September 1944)
* France
* Free France
* Greece
* India
* Italy (from September 1943)
* Liberia
* Luxembourg
* Mexico
* Netherlands
* Newfoundland
* New Zealand
* Norway
* Philippines
* Poland
* Romania (from August 1944)
* Sierra Leone
* South Africa
* Southern Rhodesia
* Soviet Union
* Tuva
* United Kingdom
* British Empire
* United States
* Puerto Rico
* Yugoslavia

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Axis|

* Albania protectorate
* Bulgaria (until September 1944)
* State of Burma
* Republic of China (Wang Jingwei)
* Independent State of Croatia
* Finland (until September 1944)
* German Reich
* Hungary
* Azad Hind
* Iraq
* Italy (until September 1943)
* Italian Social Republic
* Empire of Japan
* Manchukuo
* Mengjiang
* Philippines
* Romania (until August 1944)
* Slovak Republic
* Thailand
* Vichy France
* Guangzhouwan
* French Indochina
* French Madagascar
* Syria–Lebanon
* French North Africa
* French West Africa
* Collaboration

Neutral|

* Afghanistan
* Andorra
* Bhutan
* Ireland
* Liechtenstein
* Monaco
* Portugal
* San Marino
* Saudi Arabia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Tibet
* Turkey
* Vatican City
* Yemen

Resistance|

* Albania
* Austria
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Czech lands
* Denmark
* Dutch East Indies
* Estonia
* Ethiopia
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Hong Kong
* Italy
* Japan
* Jews
* Korea
* Korean Liberation Army
* Korean Volunteer Army
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Malaya
* Netherlands
* Northeast China
* Norway
* Philippines
* Poland
* Romania
* Thailand
* Soviet Union
* Slovakia
* Western Ukraine
* Vietnam
* Quốc dân Đảng
* Viet Minh
* Yugoslavia

POWs|

* Finnish prisoners in the Soviet Union
* German prisoners
* Soviet Union
* Azerbaijan
* United States
* United Kingdom
* Italian prisoners in the Soviet Union
* Japanese prisoners
* Soviet Union
* German atrocities against Polish POWs
* Soviet prisoners
* Finland
* atrocities by Germans
* Polish prisoners in the Soviet Union
* Romanian prisoners in the Soviet Union

Timeline|

| Prelude|

* Africa
* Second Italo-Ethiopian War
* Asia
* Second Sino-Japanese War
* Battles of Khalkhin Gol
* Europe
* Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
* Anschluss
* Munich Agreement
* Occupation of Czechoslovakia
* Operation Himmler
* Italian invasion of Albania

|

1939|

* Invasion of Poland
* Battle of the Atlantic
* Phoney War
* First Battle of Changsha
* Battle of South Guangxi
* Winter War
* 1939–1940 Winter Offensive

1940|

* Norwegian campaign
* German invasion of Denmark
* Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang
* German invasion of Luxembourg
* German invasion of the Netherlands
* German invasion of Belgium
* Battle of France
* Dunkirk evacuation
* Battle of Britain
* Battle of the Mediterranean
* North Africa
* West Africa
* British Somaliland
* Hundred Regiments Offensive
* Baltic states
* Eastern Romania
* Japanese invasion of French Indochina
* Italian invasion of Greece
* Compass

1941|

* Battle of South Henan
* Battle of Shanggao
* Invasion of Yugoslavia
* German invasion of Greece
* Battle of Crete
* Anglo-Iraqi War
* Battle of South Shanxi
* Syria–Lebanon campaign
* East African campaign
* Invasion of the Soviet Union
* Summer War
* Finland (Silver Fox)
* Lithuania
* Battle of Kiev
* Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
* Second Battle of Changsha
* Siege of Leningrad
* Battle of Moscow
* Bombing of Gorky
* Siege of Sevastopol
* Attack on Pearl Harbor
* Japanese invasion of Thailand
* Fall of Hong Kong
* Fall of the Philippines
* Battle of Guam
* Battle of Wake Island
* Malayan campaign
* Battle of Borneo
* Japanese invasion of Burma
* Third Battle of Changsha
* Greek famine of 1941–1944

1942|

* Fall of Singapore
* Battle of the Java Sea
* St Nazaire Raid
* Battle of Christmas Island
* Battle of the Coral Sea
* Battle of Madagascar
* Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign
* Battle of Gazala
* Battle of Dutch Harbor
* Battle of Midway
* Aleutian Islands campaign
* Kiska
* Attu
* Blue
* First Battle of El Alamein
* Battle of Stalingrad
* Kokoda Track campaign
* Rzhev
* Jubilee
* Second Battle of El Alamein
* Guadalcanal campaign
* Torch
* Chinese famine of 1942–1943

1943|

* Black May
* Tunisian campaign
* Battle of West Hubei
* Battle of Attu
* Bombing of Gorky
* Battle of Kursk
* Allied invasion of Sicily
* Smolensk
* Solomon Islands campaign
* Cottage
* Battle of the Dnieper
* Allied invasion of Italy
* Armistice of Cassibile
* Burma
* Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
* Changde
* Second Battle of Kiev
* Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign
* Tarawa
* Makin
* Bengal famine of 1943

1944|

* Tempest
* Monte Cassino / Anzio
* Korsun–Cherkassy
* Narva
* U-Go
* Imphal
* Ichi-Go
* Kohima
* Overlord
* Neptune
* Mariana and Palau
* Bagration
* Western Ukraine
* Second Battle of Guam
* Tannenberg Line
* Warsaw Uprising
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* Liberation of Paris
* Dragoon
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* Battle of San Marino
* Lapland
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* Estonia
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* Leyte
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* Hungary
* Budapest
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* Ardennes
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* Dutch famine of 1944–1945

1945|

* Vistula–Oder
* Battle of Manila
* Battle of Iwo Jima
* Indochina
* Vienna offensive
* Project Hula
* Western invasion of Germany
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* Battle of Okinawa
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