List of World War II battles
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This is a list of World War II battles.
African and Middle Eastern Front
African Theatres of World War II
- Battles of Fort Capuzzo: June 1940 – November 1942
- East African Campaign: June 1940 – November 1941
- Italian conquest of British Somaliland: August 1940
- Battle of Keren: February–April 1941
- Battle of Gondar: November 1941
- Battle of Dakar: September 1940
- Battle of Gabon: November 1940
- Operation Compass: December 1940 – February 1941
- Siege of Giarabub: December 1940 – March 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: August–September 1941
- Battle of Gondar: November 1941
- Operation Crusader: November–December 1941
- Battle of Gazala: May–June 1942
- Battle of Bir Hakeim: 26 May – 11 June 1942
- 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: 8 November 1942
- 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
Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
- 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
- Allied invasion of Italy: September 1943
- Dodecanese Campaign: September–October 1943
- 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
- Battle of Anzio: January–June 1944
- Trasimene Line: June–July 1944
- Battle of Ancona: June–July 1944
- Gothic Line: August–December 1944
- 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
Western Front
- Saar Offensive September 1939
- Operation Weserübung: April–June 1940
- Battle of the Netherlands: May 1940
- Battle of Belgium: May 1940
- Battle of France: May–June 1940
- Battle of Britain: July–October 1940
- 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 of Normandy
- Battle for Brest: August–September 1944
- Operation Dragoon: August–September 1944
- 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
- 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 Overloon: October 1944
- Battle of Aachen: October 1944
- 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
- Operation Nordwind: January 1945
- Operation Blackcock: January 1945
- Colmar Pocket: January–February 1945
- Western Allied invasion of Germany: February–May 1945
- Battle of Groningen: April 1945
Atlantic
Atlantic ocean
- 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 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
- Soviet invasion of Poland: September–October 1939
- Winter War: November 1939 – March 1940
- Operation Barbarossa: 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
- 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 the Transdanubian Hills
- 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[1]
- 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[2]
- 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[3]
- 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
Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean theater of World War II
Pacific
Pacific Theatre of World War II
- 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
- Battle for Kododa
- Attack on Broome
- Battle of Darwin
- Battle of Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941
- Philippines Campaign (1941–42): December 1941 – May 1942
- 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
- Bougainville campaign: November 1943 – August 1945
- 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 Peleliu: 15 September – 17 November, 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
- Battle of Balikpapan (1945): July 1945
China
Chinese theater of World War II
- 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
Southeast Asia
- Japanese invasion of French Indochina: September 1940
- Franco-Thai war : October 1940 – May 1941
- Japanese invasion of Thailand: December 1941
- Malayan Campaign: December 1941 – January 1942
- Japanese conquest of Burma: January–May 1942
- Battle of Singapore: February 1942
- Arakan Campaign 1942–1943: December 1942 – May 1943
- Burma Campaign 1944: January–November 1944
- India Campaign: 1944–1945
- Burma Campaign 1944–1945: November 1944–July 1945
- Battle of the Malacca Strait: May 1945
- Operation Tiderace: September 1945
