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1942-08-24 – 1942-08-25 Battle of the Eastern Solomons; 1942-10-11 – 1942-10-12 Battle of Cape Esperance; 1942-10-25 – 1942-10-27 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands; 1942-11-13 – 1942-11-15 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal; 1942-11-30 Battle of Tassafaronga; Solomon Islands campaign. 1943-01-29 – 1943-01-30 Battle of Rennell Island
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 ...
Cartwheel (1943–1944) — Major offensives in the South West Pacific Area, aimed at isolating the major Japanese base at Rabaul. Chronicle (1943) — landings at Woodlark Island and Kiriwina, New Guinea; Toenails (1943) — landings at New Georgia; Postern (1943) — assault on Lae, Papua New Guinea.
Japan's victory led to the establishment of Manchukuo, which persisted as a puppet state within the Empire of Japan until the end of World War II. In 1937, another "incident" at Wanping led to fighting near Beijing that escalated into the Second Sino-Japanese War. This conflict merged with others to comprise World War II. 1932 "Incident."
The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was a major theater of the Pacific War, ... Battle of Wake Island 7–23 December 1941 [5] Philippines campaign 8 December ...
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle of World War II and arguably the largest naval battle in history. It was also the only time that an aircraft carrier was sunk by surface warship in the Second World War, when the Japanese Center Force sank the escort carrier Gambier Bay off Samar.
Battles and operations of World War II involving the Solomon Islands (2 C, 45 P) South West Pacific theatre of World War II (10 C, 224 P) World War II operations and battles of the Southeast Asia Theatre (2 C, 42 P)
Naval battles of World War II involving the United States (2 C, 90 P) Pages in category "Naval battles and operations of World War II" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.