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| x African campaigns of World War II | 1940 |
There were several separate Africa campaigns during World War II. Allied forces fought Axis forces, between 1940 and 1943, on the African mainland and in nearby waters and islands.
The bulk of the combat operations took place in the Mediterranean...
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| x Actions along the Matanikau |
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Sep 1942 | Guadalcanal |
The Actions along the Matanikau in September and October 1942—sometimes referred to as the Second and Third Battles of the Matanikau—were two separate but related engagements among a series of engagements between the United States and Imperial...
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| x Bougainville campaign |
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Nov 1, 1943 | Bougainville Island |
The Bougainville campaign occurred during World War II from November 1, 1943 to August 21, 1945, on and around Bougainville Island in the South Pacific, between forces of the Empire of Japan and the Allies. Bougainville, at that time, was part of...
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| x Battle of Gabon |
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Nov 1940 | Gabon |
The Battle of Gabon or the Battle of Libreville was part of the West African Campaign of World War II fought in November 1940. The battle resulted in the Free French forces under General Charles de Gaulle taking Libreville, Gabon, and taking all of...
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| x Operation Agreement | Sep 13, 1942 | North Africa |
During World War II, Operation Agreement consisted of ground and amphibious attacks by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand forces and SIG on German and Italian-held Tobruk (Operation Agreement), Benghazi (Operation Bigamy), Jalo oasis (Operation...
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| x Battle of Balikpapan |
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1942 | Balikpapan |
This article concerns the naval and land battles of Balikpapan in 1942. For information on the 1945 landings by Australian forces in the same area, see Battle of Balikpapan (1945).
The Battle of Balikpapan took place on January 23–24, 1942, off the...
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| x Battle of Gazala |
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May 26, 1942 | Gazala |
The Battle of Gazala was an important battle of the the Second World War Western Desert Campaign, fought around the port of Tobruk in Libya from May 26 to June 21, 1942. The combatants on the Axis side were the Panzer Army Afrika, consisting of...
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| x Battle of Ambon |
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Jan 30, 1942 | Ambon Island |
The Battle of Ambon occurred on the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), on 30 January – 3 February 1942, during World War II. A Japanese invasion was resisted by Dutch and Australian forces. The chaotic and sometimes bloody...
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| x Battle of Guam | Dec 8, 1941 | Guam |
The First Battle of Guam, was an engagement during the Pacific War in World War II, and took place on December 8, 1941 on Guam in the Mariana Islands between the Empire of Japan and American forces.
Japanese Special Forces landed about 5,500 men on...
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| x Battle of Crucifix Hill | Oct 8, 1944 | Aachen |
The Battle of Crucifix Hill was a World War II battle that took place on October 8, 1944, on Crucifix Hill (Haarberg) (Hill 239), next to the village of Haaren in Germany and was a part of the U.S. 1st Division's campaign to seize Aachen, Germany....
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| x Battle of Hannut | May 12, 1940 | Hannut |
The Battle of Hannut was a World War II battle fought during the Battle of Belgium and took place on 12 May 1940 – 14 May 1940 at Hannut in Belgium. It was considered to be the first and largest tank battle of the Second World War until that day,...
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| x Battle of Rennell Island |
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Jan 29, 1943 | Rennell Island |
The Battle of Rennell Island (Japanese: レンネル島沖海戦) took place on January 29, 1943 – January 30, 1943, and was the last major naval engagement between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the lengthy Guadalcanal campaign in the...
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| x Battle of Piva Forks |
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1943 | Bougainville Island |
The Battle of Piva Forks was an engagement during the Bougainville campaign in World War II, and occurred from 1943-11-18 - 1943-11-25 on Bougainville Island in the South Pacific between the Empire of Japan and Allied forces.
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| x Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands |
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Oct 26, 1942 | Santa Cruz Islands |
The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 26, 1942, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Santa Cruz or in Japanese sources as the Battle of the South Pacific (南太平洋海戦), was the fourth carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II and...
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| x Battle of Borneo |
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1942 | Borneo |
For campaigns on eastern Borneo, see Battle of Tarakan (1942) and Battle of Balikpapan (1942).
The Battle of Borneo was a successful campaign by Japanese Imperial forces for control of Borneo island and concentrated mainly with the subjugation of...
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| x Battle of Timor |
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1942 | West Timor |
The Battle of Timor (1942–43) occurred in Portuguese Timor and Netherlands Timor, during World War II. It involved forces from the Empire of Japan—which invaded on February 20, 1942—on one side and Allied military personnel, predominantly from...
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| x Carlson's patrol |
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Nov 6, 1942 | Guadalcanal |
Carlson's patrol, also known as The Long Patrol or Carlson's long patrol, was an operation by the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion under the command of Evans Carlson during the Guadalcanal Campaign against the Imperial Japanese Army from November 6 to...
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| x Operation Queen |
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Nov 1944 | Rur |
Operation Queen was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the Western Front between Aachen and the Rur river in November 1944.
After the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, American and British forces had driven the German...
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| x Namsos campaign | May 1940 | Namsos |
In April and early May, 1940 Namsos and its surrounding area were the scene of heavy fighting between Anglo-French, Polish and Norwegian naval and military forces on the one hand, and German military, naval and air forces on the other. It was one of...
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| x Battle of the Seelow Heights | Apr 16, 1945 | Seelow Heights |
The Battle of the Seelow Heights (German: Schlacht um die "Seelower Höhen"), was a part of the Seelow-Berlin Offensive Operation (16 April - 2 May, 1945); one of the last assaults on large entrenched defensive positions of World War II. It was...
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| x Falaise pocket |
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Aug 12, 1944 | Normandy |
The battle of the Falaise Pocket, fought during the Second World War from 12–21 August 1944, was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy. Taking its name from the area around the town of Falaise within which the German Seventh and Fifth...
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| x Battle of Åndalsnes | Apr 1940 | Åndalsnes |
The Battle of Åndalsnes took place in Åndalsnes in Romsdal, Norway in 1940 during the Norwegian Campaign of World War II.
After the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, British troops landed in Åndalsnes as part of a pincer movement to take mid...
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| x Battle of Cape Esperance |
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Oct 11, 1942 | Cape Esperance |
The Battle of Cape Esperance, also known as the Second Battle of Savo Island and, in Japanese sources, as the Sea Battle of Savo Island (サボ島沖海戦), took place October 11 – 12, 1942, and was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II...
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| x Battle of Tassafaronga |
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Nov 30, 1942 | Savo Island |
The Battle of Tassafaronga, sometimes referred to as the Fourth Battle of Savo Island or, in Japanese sources, as the Battle of Lunga Point (ルンガ沖夜戦), was a nighttime naval battle that took place November 30, 1942 between United States (US) Navy and...
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| x Battle of Thermopylae |
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1941 | Thermopylae |
The Battle of Thermopylae during World War II occurred in 1941 following the retreat from the Olympus and Servia passes. British Commonwealth forces began to set up defensive position at the historic pass at Thermopylae. (Thermopylae is famous for...
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| x Sutjeska offensive |
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May 15, 1943 | Sutjeska |
The Battle of the Sutjeska (Serbo-Croatian: Bitka na Sutjesci), codenamed Fall Schwarz, was a joint attack by the Axis taking place from 15 May to 16 June 1943, which aimed to destroy the main Yugoslav Partisan force, near the Sutjeska river in...
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| x U Go offensive | Mar 1944 | Manipur |
The U Go offensive, or Operation C (ウ号作戦), was the Japanese offensive in March 1944 launched against Empire forces in the North-East Indian region of Manipur. Aimed at the direction of the Brahmaputra valley, through the two towns of Imphal and...
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| x Battle for Henderson Field |
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Oct 23, 1942 | Guadalcanal |
The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the Battle of Henderson Field or Battle of Lunga Point by the Japanese, took place October 23 – October 26, 1942 on and around Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. The battle was a land, sea, and air...
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| x Battle of Kos |
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Sep 1943 | Kos |
The Battle of Kos (Greek: Μάχη της Κω) was a brief battle between British, Italian and German forces for the control of the Greek island of Kos, in the then Italian-held Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea.
With the capitulation of Italy in...
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| x Colmar Pocket |
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Feb 9, 1945 | Alsace |
Located in Alsace in eastern France, the Colmar Pocket (French: Poche de Colmar; (German: Brückenkopf Elsaß) was the site of a three-week operation during the Second World War, between 20 January and 9 February, 1945, where the French First Army and...
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| x Battles of Narvik |
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Apr 9, 1940 | Ofotfjord |
The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April until 8 June 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian city of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of World War II.
The two naval...
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| x Battle of Białystok-Minsk |
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Jun 22, 1941 | Białystok |
The Battle of Białystok–Minsk was a German strategic operation conducted by the Army Group Centre during penetration of the Soviet border region during the opening stage of Operation Barbarossa lasting from 22 to 29 June 1941. Its goal was...
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| x Battle of Brody | Jun 26, 1941 | Brody |
The Battle of Brody (other names in use include Battle of Dubna, Battle of Dubno, Battle of Rovne, Battle of Rovne-Brody) was a tank battle fought between the 1st Panzer Group's IIIrd, XXXXVIII Army Corps (Motorized) and five Soviet Mechanized Corps...
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| x Battle of Midway |
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Jun 4, 1942 | Midway Atoll |
The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and seven months after Japan's attack on Pearl...
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| x Katyn massacre |
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The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, intellectuals and civilian prisoners of war by Soviet NKVD, based on a...
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| x Balkans Campaign |
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Oct 28, 1940 | Albania |
The Balkans Campaign was the Axis Powers' invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia during World War II. It began with Italy's failed invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940 and ended with the capture of Crete by German and Italian forces on 1 June 1941....
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1944 | Wolfsschanze |
The 20 July plot of 1944 was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, inside his "Wolf's Lair" field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of the German Resistance to...
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| x Tykocin pogrom | Aug 1941 | Tykocin |
The Tykocin pogrom was the mass murder of Jewish residents of Tykocin in Nazi German occupied Poland in August 1941, following German attack on the Soviet Union in World War II.
During Soviet and German invasion of Poland, pursuant to the secret...
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| x Pacific Theater of Operations |
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The Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) was the World War II area of military activity in the Pacific Ocean and the countries bordering it, a geographic scope that reflected the operational and administrative command structures of the American...
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| x Battle of the Strait of Otranto | 1940 | Strait of Otranto |
The 1940 Battle of the Strait of Otranto was a minor naval action during the Battle of the Mediterranean in World War II. It took place on 12 November 1940 in the Strait of Otranto in the Adriatic Sea, between Italy and Albania.
The battle occurred...
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| x Operation Freshman | Nov 1942 | Norway |
Operation Freshman was the codename given to a British airborne operation conducted in November 1942 during World War II. It was the first British airborne operation conducted using gliders, and its target was the Norsk Hydro chemical plant in...
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| x United States Army Air Forces in the South Pacific Area |
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During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces engaged in combat against the Empire of Japan in the South Pacific Area. As defined by the War Department, this consisted of the Pacific Ocean areas which lay south of the Equator between...
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| x United States Army Air Forces in Okinawa | Apr 1, 1945 |
The Battle of Okinawa was the last major ground battle between the armed forces of the Empire of Japan and the United States of the Pacific War.
United States Army and United States Marine Corps ground forces landed on the island on 1 April 1945 at...
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| x United States Army Air Forces in the Central Pacific Area |
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During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces engaged in combat against the Empire of Japan in the Central Pacific Area. As defined by the War Department, this consisted of most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands, excluding the...
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| x Estonia in World War II |
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Aug 1939 | Estonia |
The ground for the fate of Estonia in World War II was laid by the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, particularly its Secret Additional Protocol of August 1939.
The Republic of Estonia declared neutrality in the war but fell under the Soviet sphere...
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| x Japanese occupation of the Philippines |
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1941 | Philippines |
The Japanese occupation of the Philippines was the period in the history of the Philippines between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied American-controlled Philippines during World War II. The invasion of the Philippines started on...
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| x Landing at Lae | Sep 6, 1943 | Lae |
The Landing at Lae was an amphibous landing, as part of (Operation POSTERN), to the east of Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign of World War II between 4-6 September 1943.
The landing sites identified were Red Beach to the east of the mouth of the Buso...
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| x Landing at Nadzab |
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Sep 5, 1943 | Nadzab |
The Landing at Nadzab was an airborne landing on 5 September 1943 during the New Guinea campaign of World War II that began with a parachute drop at Nadzab in conjunction with the Landing at Lae.
The parachute drop was carried out by the US Army's...
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| x United States Army Air Forces in the South West Pacific Theatre |
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During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces engaged in combat against the air, ground and naval forces of the Empire of Japan in the South West Pacific Theatre.
As defined by the United States Department of War, the South West Pacific...
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