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The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also List of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons.
Medieval ships were the vessels used in Europe during the Middle Ages. Like ships from antiquity , they were moved by sails , oars , or a combination of the two. There was a large variety, mostly based on much older, conservative designs.
Medieval galleys instead developed a projection, or "spur", in the bow that was designed to break oars and act as a boarding platform for taking enemy ships. The only remaining examples of ramming tactics were occasional attempts to collide with enemy ships in order to destabilize or capsize them.
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
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 ...
7 December Pearl Harbor, also starting the Pacific War – Japanese naval and air forces launch surprise raid on American naval base at Pearl Harbor, forces United States to enter World War II; 8–23 December Battle of Wake Island – American coastal and air defenses at Wake Island hold off Japanese invasion for 15 days, sinking several ...
Battle or campaign Order of battle Date 1861 Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate Hampton Division and Union Department of Virginia: June 10, 1861 Battle of Hoke's Run: Union Army of the Shenandoah: July 2, 1861 Battle of Carthage (1861) Confederate Missouri State Guard and Union Department of Missouri: July 5, 1861 Battle of Rich Mountain