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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 ...
Landing at Saidor order of battle; Battle of Saipan order of battle; Santa Cruz Islands order of battle; Savo Island order of battle; South African Army order of battle 1940; Structure of the Imperial Japanese forces in the South Seas Mandate; Soviet Air Forces order of battle 1 May 1945; Soviet order of battle for invasion of Poland in 1939
The Oxford companion to world war II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) Elting, John R. Battles for Scandinavia (Time-Life Books 1981) Haarr, Geirr. The Gathering Storm: Naval War in Northern Europe, September 1939 to April 1940 (2013) Haarr, Geirr. German Invasion of Norway: April 1940 (vol 1 2012); The Battle for Norway, April-June ...
This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states. Operations are categorised ...
This is a list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are listed in chronological order by starting date (or planned start date).
Battles of World War II involving the Soviet Union (7 C, 24 P) U. Battles and operations of World War II involving the United Kingdom (9 C, 50 P)
largest amphibious battle of the Pacific theatre of World War II; Ended in heavy casualties for both sides; Large-scale deaths of Okinawan civilians. Ended in U.S. occupation of Okinawa; Intended as a preparatory battle to the abandoned Western Allied invasions of Kyūshū and Honshu.
Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1918–1941) Timeline of Sweden during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Netherlands during World War II (1939–1945) Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II