List of World War II battles

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This is a list of World War II battles.

African & Middle Eastern Front

• Battles of Fort Capuzzo: June 1940-November 1942
• East African Campaign: June 1940-November 1942
  • Italian conquest of British Somaliland
  • Battle of Keren
  • Battle of Gondar
• Battle of Dakar: September 1940
• Battle of Gabon: November 1940
• Operation Compass: December 1940-February 1941
• Battle of Keren: February 1941-April 1941
• Siege of Tobruk: April-November 1941
• Iraq Campaign: May 1941
• Operation Brevity: May 1941
• Operation Skorpion: May 1941
• Operation Battleaxe: June 1941
• Syria–Lebanon Campaign: June-July 1941
• Iran Campaign: June-July 1941
• Battle of Gondar: November 1941
• Operation Crusader: November-December 1941
• Battle of Gazala: May-June 1942
  • Battle of Bir Hakeim:
• Battle of Madagascar: May-November 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
  • Battle of Casablanca
• Tunisia Campaign: November 1942-May 1943
  • Battle of the Kasserine Pass
  • Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
  • Battle of Medenine
  • Operation Pugilist
  • Battle of El Guettar
  • Battle of Hill 609
  • Operation Vulcan

Mediterranean Front

• Attack on Mers-el-Kébir: 3 July, 1940
• Siege of Malta: June 1940-December 1942
• Battle of Yugoslavia: April 1941
• Battle of Greece: April 1941
• Battle of Crete: May 1941
• Operation Strangle: March 1943 - June 1944
• Battle of Sicily: July-August 1943
  • Operation Ladbroke
  • Operation Fustian
  • Battle of Troina
• Allied invasion of Italy: September 1943
  • Operation Slapstick
• Dodecanese Campaign: September-October 1943
  • Battle of Leros
  • Battle of Kos
• Battle of Naples: September 1943
• Volturno Line: October-November 1943
• Barbara Line: October-November 1943
• Air Raid on Bari: December 1943
• Battle of Ortona: December 1943
• Bernhardt Line: December 1943-January 1944
• Moro River Campaign: December 1943
• Battle of Monte Cassino: January-May 1944
  • Operation Diadem
• Battle of Anzio: January-June 1944
  • Battle of Cisterna
• Trasimene Line: June-July 1944
• Battle of Ancona: June-July 1944
• Gothic Line: August-December 1944
  • Battle of Gemmano
  • Battle of Rimini
• Battle of San Marino: September 1944
• Battle of Garfagnana: December 1944
• Battle of Monte Castello: November 1944 - February 1945
• Spring 1945 offensive in Italy: April-May 1945
  • Battle of Bologna:
  • Battle of the Argenta Gap:

Western Front

• Operation Weserübung: April-June 1940
  • Battle of Denmark
  • Norwegian Campaign
    • Battles of Narvik
• Battle of the Netherlands: May 1940
  • Battle of Rotterdam
  • Battle of Zeeland
  • Battle of The Afsluitdijk
  • Battle of the Grebbeberg
  • Battle for the Hague
  • Battle of Maastricht
• Battle of Belgium: May 1940
  • Battle of Fort Eben-Emael
  • Battle of Hannut
  • Battle of Gembloux
• Battle of France: May-June 1940
  • Battle of Sedan
  • Battle of Arras
  • Siege of Calais
  • Siege of Lille
  • Operation Paula
  • Battle of Dunkirk
  • Battle of Saumur
• Battle of Britain: July-October 1940
  • The Hardest Day
  • Battle of Britain Day
  • Battle of Graveney Marsh
• The Blitz: September 1940-May 1941
• Operation Cerberus: February 1942
• Operation Donnerkeil: February 1942
• St. Nazaire Raid: March 1942
• Dieppe Raid: August 1942
• Battle of Berlin (air): November 1943-March 1944
• Operation Overlord: June-August 1944
  • Battle of Normandy
    • Invasion of Normandy
    • Battle for Caen
    • Operation Perch
    • Battle of Carentan
    • Battle of Cherbourg
    • Battle of Villers-Bocage
    • Battle of Bloody Gulch
    • Operation Epsom
    • Operation Windsor
    • Operation Charnwood
    • Operation Jupiter
    • Second Battle of the Odon
    • Operation Goodwood
    • Operation Atlantic
    • Battle of Verrières Ridge
    • Operation Spring
    • Operation Cobra
    • Operation Totalize
    • Operation Lüttich
    • Operation Tractable
    • Battle of Hill 262
    • Falaise pocket
• Battle for Brest: August-September 1944
• Operation Dragoon: August-September 1944
  • Operation Romeo
  • Battle of Port Cros
  • Battle of La Ciotat
• Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine: August-September 1944
• Clearing the Channel Coast: September-November 1944
  • Operation Astonia
  • Siege of Dunkirk (1944)
  • Operation Wellhit
  • Operation Undergo
• Operation Market Garden: September 1944
  • Battle of Arnhem
• Lorraine Campaign: September-December 1944
• Battle of Metz: September-December 1944
• Battle of Nancy: September 1944
• Battle of Moerbrugge: September 1944
• Battle of Hürtgen Forest: September 1944-February 1945
  • Battle of Hill 400
• Battle of Overloon: October 1944
• Battle of Aachen: October 1944
  • Battle of Crucifix Hill
• Battle of the Scheldt: October-November 1944
• Operation Queen: November-December 1944
• Operation Clipper: November 1944-January 1945
• Battle of the Bulge: December 1944-January 1945
  • Battle of St. Vith
  • Battle of Kesternich
  • Battle of Lanzerath Ridge
  • Losheim Gap
  • Battle of Clervaux
  • Elsenborn Ridge
  • Operation Stösser
  • Siege of Bastogne
  • Operation Bodenplatte
• Operation Nordwind: January 1945
• Operation Blackcock: January 1945
• Colmar Pocket: January-February 1945
• Western Allied invasion of Germany: February-May 1945
  • Operation Veritable
  • Operation Grenade
  • Operation Lumberjack
  • Operation Plunder
  • Operation Varsity
  • Operation Undertone
  • Operation Amherst
  • Battle of Kassel
  • Battle of Heilbronn
  • Ruhr Pocket
• Battle of Groningen: April 1945

The Atlantic

• Battle of the Atlantic: 1939-1945
  • Battle of the River Plate
  • Altmark Incident
  • Convoy SC 7
  • Convoy HX 84
  • Convoy HX 106
  • 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 the North Cape
  • Operation Stonewall
  • Operation Teardrop
  • Action of 13 May 1944
  • Battle of Ushant
  • Battle of Pierres Noires
  • Action of 9 February 1945
  • Battle of Point Judith

Eastern Front

• Invasion of Poland: September-October 1939
• Winter War: November 1939-March 1940
• Operation Barbarosa: June-December 1941
• Battle of Białystok-Minsk: June 1941
• Operation Arctic Fox: July-November 1941
• Operation Bagration: June-August
• Bobruysk Offensive: June 1944
• Battle of the Bay of Viipuri: June-July 1944
• Belostock Offensive: July 1944
• Battle of Berlin: April-May 1945
• Battle of Bautzen (1945): April 1945
• Battle at Borodino Field: October 1941-January 1942
• Operation Braunschweig: July-November 1942
• Defense of Brest Fortress: June 1941
• Siege of Breslau: February-May 1945
• Battle of Brody (1941): June 1941
• Battle of Bryansk (1941): October 1941
• Battle of Roy: November 1941
• Budapest Offensive: October 1944-February 1945
• Siege of Budapest: December 1944-February 1945
• Operation Büffel: March 1943
• Case Blue: June-November 1942
• Battle of the Caucasus
• Concert (operation)
• Continuation War
• Courland Pocket
• Battle of the Crimea (1941)
• Battle of the Crimea (1944)
• Battle of Debrecen
• Demyansk Pocket
• Operation Doppelkopf
• Battle of the Dnieper
• Battle of Drava
• Battle of the Dukla Pass
• East Pomeranian Offensive
• East Prussian Offensive
• Operation Edelweiss
• Operation Frühlingserwachen
• Gumbinnen Operation
• Battle of Halbe
• Battle of Hel
• Heiligenbeil Pocket
• Operation Iskra
• Jassy-Kishinev Operation
• Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket
• Kaunas Offensive
• Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
• Kerch-Eltigen Operation
• First Battle of Kharkov
• Second Battle of Kharkov
• Third Battle of Kharkov
• Fourth Battle of Kharkov
• Occupation of Kharkov
• Battle of Kiev (1941)
• Battle of Kiev (1943)
• Battle of Kolberg
• Battle of Königsberg
• Operation Konrad
• Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket
• Battle of Krasny Bor
• Operation Kremlin
• Battle of Kursk
• Operation Kutuzov
• Battle of Leningrad
• Battle of Lenino
• Lower Silesian Offensive
• Lublin–Brest Offensive
• Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive
• Lötzen decision
• Operation Margarethe
• Battle of Memel
• Minsk Offensive
• Mogilev Offensive
• Moonzund Landing Operation
• Battle of Moscow
• Malaya Zemlya
• Operation Mars
• Nagykanizsa–Kermend Offensive
• Battle of Narva (1944)
• Battle for Narva Bridgehead
• Battle of Tannenberg Line
• Nevsky Pyatachok
• Battle of Nikolayevka
• Operation Nordlicht
• Battle of the Oder-Neisse
• Siege of Odessa (1941)
• Osovets Offensive
• Ostrogozhsk-Rossosh Operation
• Operation Panzerfaust
• Operation Platinum Fox
• Polotsk Offensive
• Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda
• Battle of Porkuni
• Battle of Poznań (1945)
• Prague Offensive
• Pripyat swamps (punitive operation)
• Battle of Prokhorovka
• Battle of Radzymin (1944)
• Battle of Raseiniai
• Operation Renntier
• Riga Offensive (1944)
• Battle of Rostov
• Battles of Rzhev
• Operation Saturn
• Defense of Schwedt Bridgehead
• Sea of Azov coastal advance
• Battle of the Seelow Heights
• Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)
• Shyaulyay Offensive
• Silesian Offensives
• Operation Silver Fox
• Battle of Smolensk (1941)
• Battle of Smolensk (1943)
• Operation Solstice
• Battle of Someri
• Battle of Stalingrad
• Battle of Studzianki
• Bombing of Tallinn in World War II
• Evacuation of Tallinn (1941)
• Tallinn Offensive
• Battle of Târgul Frumos
• Tatsinskaya Raid
• Toropets-Kholm Operation
• Battle of Uman
• Upper Silesian Offensive
• Operation Uranus
• Battle for Velikiye Luki (1943)
• Vienna Offensive
• Vilnius Offensive
• Vistula–Oder Offensive
• Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive
• Battle of Voronezh (1942)
• Battle of Voronezh (1943)
• Warsaw Uprising
• Battle of Westerplatte
• Operation Wintergewitter
• Battle of Wizna
• Operation Wotan
• Yelnya Offensive
• Zemland Offensive
• Operation Valkyrie

The Pacific

• Battle for Australia
  • Battle of the Coral Sea
  • Battle of Rabaul
  • New Guinea campaign
    • Battle for Kododa
      • Battle of Isurava
      • Battle of Brigade Hill
    • Battle of Biak
    • Battle of Buna-Gona
    • Battle of the Bismarck Sea
    • Bougainville Campaign
    • Battle of Driniumor River
    • Finisterre Range campaign
    • Huon Peninsula campaign
    • Battle of Lone Tree Hill (1944)
    • Battle of Milne Bay
    • Operation Cartwheel
    • Operation Mo
    • Operations Reckless and Persecution
    • Salamaua-Lae campaign
    • Battle of Wau
    • Bombing of Wewak
  • Attack on Broome
  • Battle of Darwin
• Battle of Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941
• Philippines Campaign (1941–42): December 1941-May 1942
  • Battle of Bataan
  • Battle of Corregidor
• Battle of Hong Kong: December 1941
• Dutch East Indies campaign: December 1941-March 1942
• Battle of Guam (1941): December 1941
• Battle of Wake Island: December 1941
• Battle of Midway: June 1942
• Guadalcanal Campaign: August 1942-February 1943
• Battle of Savo Island: August 1942
• Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands: October 1942
• Battle of Attu: May 1943
• Battle of Tarawa: November 1943
• Battle of Cape Gloucester: December 1943–April 1944
• Battle of Saipan: June-July 1944
• Battle of Noemfoor: July-August 1944
• Battle of Guam (1944): July-August 1944
• Battle of the Philippine Sea: September-October 1944
• Battle of Morotai: September-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 Luzon: January-August 1945
  • Battle of Manila (1945): February-March 1945
• Battle of Iwo Jima: February–March 1945
• Battle of Okinawa: April–June 1945

China

• Mukden: September 1931
• Invasion of Manchuria: September 1931
  • Jiangqiao Campaign: October 1931
  • Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge: November 1931
  • Jinzhou: December 1931
  • Defense of Harbin: January 1932
• Shanghai (1932): January 1932
• Pacification of Manchukuo: March 1932
• Defense of the Great Wall: January 1933
  • Battle of Rehe: February 1933
• Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933-36)
  • Suiyuan Campaign: October 1936
• Battle of Lugou Bridge (Marco Polo Bridge Incident): July 1937
• Battle of Beiping-Tianjin: July 1937
• Chahar: August 1937
• 'Battle of Shanghai: August 1937
• Beiping–Hankou: August 1937
• Tianjin–Pukou: 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: December 1937
• Battle of Taierzhuang: March 1938
• Northern and Eastern Honan 1938: January 1938
  • Battle of Lanfeng: May 1938
• Xiamen: May 1938
• 'Battle of Wuhan: June 1938
  • Battle of Wanjialing
• Guangdong: October 1938
• Hainan Island: February 1939
• Battle of Nanchang: March 1939
  • Battle of Xiushui River: March 1939
• Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang: May 1939
• Shantou: June 1939
• Battle of Changsha (1939): September 1939
• Battle of South Guangxi: November 1939
  • Battle of Kunlun Pass: December 1939
• 1939-40 Winter Offensive: November 1939
  • Battle of Wuyuan: March 1940
• Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang: May 1940
• Hundred Regiments Offensive: August 1940
• Vietnam Expedition: September 1940
• Central Hupei: November 1940
• Battle of South Henan: January 1941
• Western Hopei: March 1941
• Battle of Shanggao: March 1941
• Battle of South Shanxi: May 1941
• Battle of Changsha (1941): September 1941
• Battle of Changsha (1942): January 1942
• Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road: March 1942
  • Battle of Toungoo
  • Battle of Yenangyaung
• Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi: April 1942
• Battle of West Hubei: May 1943
• Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan: October 1943
• Battle of Changde: November 1943
• Operation Ichi-Go
  • Operation Kogo Battle of Central Henan: April 1944
  • Operation Togo 1 Battle of Changsha (1944)
  • Operation Togo 2 and Operation Togo 3 Battle of Guilin-Liuzhou: August 1944
• Battle of West Hunan: April-June 1945
• Second Guangxi Campaign: April-July 1945
• Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation: August–September 1945

Southeast Asia

• Invasion of French Indochina: September 1940
• Malayan Campaign: December 1941-January 1942
  • Battle of Kota Bharu
  • Operation Krohcol
  • Naval Battle off Malaya
  • Battle of Jitra
  • Battle of Kampar
  • Battle of Slim River
  • Battle of Gemas
  • Battle of Muar
  • Battle off Endau
• Japanese conquest of Burma: January-May 1942
  • Battle of Bilin River
  • Battle of Sittang Bridge
  • Battle of Pegu
  • Taukkyan Roadblock
  • Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road
  • Battle of Toungoo
  • Battle of Yenangyaung
• Battle of Singapore: February 1942
• Arakan Campaign 1942–1943: December 1942–May 1943
• Burma Campaign 1944: January–November 1944
  • Operation U-Go
  • Battle of the Admin Box
  • Battle of Sangshak
• India Campaign: 1944-1945
  • Battle of Imphal
  • Battle of Kohima
• Burma Campaign 1944–1945: November 1944–July 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
• Battle of the Malacca Strait: May 1945
• Operation Tiderace: September 1945