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The largest air-sea battle in history. • Operation Queen: was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the Western Front between Aachen and the Rur river. • Battle of Mindoro • Battle of Vianden: The only major open battle fought between the Luxembourgish Resistance against German forces. • Battle of the Bulge
Bishop (1945) – covering operation for Dracula. Diplomat (1944) – Allied exercise in preparation for joint operations against the Japanese. Dukedom (1945) – British search and destroy operation for Japanese cruiser Haguro. Exporter (1941) – British and Commonwealth invasion of Vichy French -held Syria.
Western Front (1944–1945) Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) commanded Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until May 1945. Battle of Normandy (June–August 1944) Northern France Campaign (July–September 1944) Southern France Campaign ( Operation Dragoon) (August–September 1944) Battle of the Siegfried ...
27 January: The first World War II US mission flown against the German homeland bombs Kriegsmarine submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven. [27]: 107 5/6 March: The first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr [2] flew RAF Bomber Command's 100,000th sortie of World War II, with 160 acres destroyed and 53 Krupps buildings bombed at Essen.
In all, 44 World War II campaigns were designated by the U.S. Army: 24 for the Asiatic – Pacific Theater, 19 in the European – African–Middle Eastern Theater, and one in the American Theater. In addition, there were three main blanket campaigns: antisubmarine warfare, ground combat and air combat. These were designated for each theater ...
List of most lethal battles in world history; Africa : List of conflicts in Africa (Military history of Africa) List of modern conflicts in North Africa (Maghreb) Conflicts in the Horn of Africa (East region) Americas : List of conflicts in North America. List of wars involving the United States; List of conflicts in Central America
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to World War II : World War II, or the Second World War was a global military conflict that was fought between September 1, 1939, and September 2, 1945. The war pitted two major military alliances against each other: the Allies of the United States, Soviet Union, United ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battles of World War II. For campaigns which use "battle" in the campaign name (e.g., Battle of Normandy) or which have "operation" codenames (e.g., Operation Barbarossa ), see Category:Campaigns of World War II. For World War II military operations which were not battles, see the List of World War II ...