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This is a list of World War II battles.
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Africa, Mediterranean and Middle East
- Greece
- Syria and Lebanon
- Iraq
- Persia
- East Africa
- Sicily
- Italy
- Mediterranean Naval battles
See also: List of North African Campaign Battles
Western Front
- Operation Overlord
- Battle of the Bulge[1]
- Battle of Britain
- Battle of France
- Battle of the Scheldt
- Battle of Maastricht
- Battle for the Hague
- Battle of the Grebbeberg
- Battle of Fort Eben-Emael
- Battle of Hannut
- Battle of The Afsluitdijk
- Battle of the Netherlands
- Battle of Zeeland
- Battle of Dunkirk
- Battle of Aachen
- St. Nazaire Raid
- Dieppe Raid
- Invasion of Normandy
- Operation Dragoon
- Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine
- Operation Market Garden
- Battle of Overloon
- Battle of Hürtgen Forest
- Battle of Greece
- Operation Market Garden
- Battle of Normandy
Eastern Front
- Invasion of Poland
- Operation Arctic Fox
- Operation Bagration
- Battle of Bautzen (1945)
- Battle of the Bay of Viipuri
- Battle of Białystok-Minsk
- Operation Barbarosa
- Belostock Offensive
- Bobruysk Offensive
- Battle of Berlin
- Battle at Borodino Field
- Operation Braunschweig
- Defense of Brest Fortress
- Siege of Breslau
- Battle of Brody (1941)
- Battle of Bryansk (1941)
- Budapest Offensive
- Siege of Budapest
- Operation Büffel
- Case Blue
- 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[2]
- 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[3]
- 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[4]
- 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
Asia - Pacific
- Battle for Australia
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- Battle of Rabaul
- New Guinea campaign
- Battle for Kododa
- 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
- Attack on Derby
- Attack on Horn Island
- Attack on Katherine
- Attack on Mossman
- Attack on Port Hedland
- Attack on Sydney Harbour
- Attack on Wyndham
- Attack on Townsville
- Battle of Bataan
- Battle of Corregidor
- Battle of Guam (1941)
- Battle of Hong Kong
- Battle of Iwo Jima
- Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Battle of Malaya
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of Morotai
- Battle of Noemfoor
- Battle of Okinawa
- Battle of Pearl Harbor
- Battle of the Philippines
- Battle of Saipan
- Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
- Battle of Savo Island
- Battle of Singapore[5]
- Battle of Wake Island
- Borneo campaign (1945)
- Doolittle Raid
- Guadalcanal Campaign
- Mariana and Palau Islands campaign
- Battles of the campaigns in Burma and India
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
- 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
- Beiping-Tianjin July 1937
- Chahar August 1937
- Battle of Shanghai August 1937
- Beiping–Hankou August 1937
- Tianjin–Pukou August 1937
- 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
- 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 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
Misc
- James R. "Rube" Garrett: A Marine Diary: My Experiences on Guadalcanal An Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Guadalcanal[7]
Citations and notes
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