World War II
See also: World War II| Battle or Campaign | Order of Battle | Date |
|---|---|---|
| European Theater of Operations | ||
| Polish Campaign | German Army, Polish Army and Soviet Army |
September 1939 |
| Winter War | Finnish Army | December 1939 |
| Norwegian campaign | Allies and German | April 1940 |
| Battle of Belgium | French First Army Group, Belgian Army, and German Army Group B | May 10 – 28, 1940 |
| Battle of France | Allies and Axis | May 10, 1940 |
| Operation Sea Lion | German | September 1940 (planned) |
| Balkans Campaign | German Army | April 6 – May 3, 1941 |
| Operation Barbarossa | Axis and Soviet Forces | June 22, 1941 |
| Convoy PQ 17 | Allied and German Navies | July, 1942 |
| Dieppe Raid | Allied and German | August 1942 |
| Convoy PQ 18 | Allied and German forces | 2 September - 21 September 1942. |
| Battle of Stalingrad | German and Soviet | September 1942 – February 2, 1943 |
| Battle of Kursk | German and Soviet | July 4 – July 20, 1943 |
| American airborne landings in Normandy | US VII Corps and IX Troop Carrier Command and German Seventh Army | June 6, 1944 |
| Invasion of Normandy | Allied Second British Army and First U.S. Army and German Army Group B | June 6 – mid-July, 1944 |
| Normandy landings | U.S. and U.K. naval forces, British Second Army and U.S. First Army | June 6, 1944 |
| Operation Perch | British and German | June 6 – 19, 1944 |
| Battle of Villers-Bocage | British and German | June 13, 1944 |
| Operation Epsom | British and German | June 26 – June 30, 1944 |
| Operation Goodwood | British and German | July 18 – July 20, 1944 |
| Operation Cobra | US and German | July 25 – July 31, 1944 |
| Operation Market Garden | Allied and German | September 17 – 25, 1944 |
| Battle of Debrecen | Axis and Soviet | October 1944 |
| Battle of the Bulge | Allied and German | December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945 |
| Operation Nordwind | Allied and German | January 1, 1945 – January 25, 1945 |
| Battle of Berlin | German and Soviet | April 16, 1945 - May 2, 1945 |
| Battle in Berlin | German and Soviet | April 23, 1945 - May 2, 1945 |
| Mediterranean and African Theater of Operations | ||
| East African Campaign | British (and Commonwealth) and Italian ground and naval forces | June 1940 – November 1941 |
| Iraq, Northern Syria and Iran | British (and Commonwealth) forces (Iraqforce, Paiforce, Persia and Iraq Command) | April 1941 – March 1943 |
| Operation Brevity | British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground forces | May 15 – 16, 1941 |
| Battle of Crete | British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground and naval forces | May 20 – June 1, 1941 |
| Syria-Lebanon Campaign | British, Commonwealth and Free French ground forces, Vichy French ground forces | June 8 – July 14, 1941 |
| Operation Battleaxe | British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground forces | June 15 – 17. 1941 |
| Operation Crusader | British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground forces | November 18 – December 30, 1941 |
| Battle of Alam el Halfa | British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground forces | August 30 – September 5, 1942 |
| Second Battle of El Alamein | British Eighth Army, PanzerArmee Afrika, Italian Army Africa | October 24 – November 4, 1942 |
| Sicily Campaign | Allies and Axis | July – August, 1943 |
| Allied invasion of Italy | Allied 15th Army Group and German Tenth Army | 3 - 16 September 1943 |
| Moro River Campaign | Allied Eighth Army and German LXXVI Panzer Corps | December 6 – 31, 1943 |
| First Battle of Monte Cassino | Allied 5th Army and German Tenth Army | January 17 - February 11, 1944 |
| Battle of Anzio | Allied 5th Army and German Fourteenth Army | January 22 – 5 June, 1944 |
| Second Battle of Monte Cassino | New Zealand Corps and German XIV Panzer Corps | February 13 - February 18, 1944 |
| Fourth battle of Monte Cassino and the battle for Rome (Operation Diadem) | Allied 15th Army Group and German Army Group C | May – June, 1944 |
| Allied invasion of southern France (Operation Dragoon) | Allied and German | August 1944 |
| Gothic Line | Allied Armies in Italy and German Army Group C | August 1944 – April 1945 |
| Allied final offensive in Italy (Operation Grapeshot) | Allied 15th Army Group and German Army Group C | April - May 1945 |
| Pacific Theater of Operations | ||
| Battle of Malaya | Allied and Japanese | December 7, 1941 – February 14, 1942 |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor | Japanese and U.S. Navies | December 7, 1941 |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | Japanese and U.S. Navies | May 1942 |
| Battle of Midway | Japanese and U.S. Navies | June 4 – 6, 1942 |
| Battle of the Aleutian Islands | Imperial Japanese Navy Alaskan Strike Group | June 6, 1942 – August 15, 1943 |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | Japanese and U.S. | August, 1942 – February, 1943 |
| Battle of Milne Bay | Allied and Japanese | August 25 – September 7, 1942 |
| Battle of Goodenough Island | Allied and Japanese | October 24–27, 1942 |
| Battle of the Bismarck Sea | Allied and Japanese | March 2–4, 1943 |
| Battle of Arawe | Allied and Japanese | December, 1943 – February, 1944 |
| Landing at Saidor | Allied and Japanese | January 2 – February 16, 1944 |
| Admiralty Islands campaign | Allied and Japanese | February 29 – May 18, 1944 |
| Battle of Saipan | Japan and U.S. | June 15 – July 9, 1944 |
| Battle of Central Burma | Japanese Burma Area Army and British Fourteenth Army | 29 November 1944 - 28 March 1945 |
| Borneo Campaign (1945) | Allied and Japanese | May 1 – August 15, 1945 |
| Operation Downfall | Allied and Japanese | August 1945 (planned) |
| National forces | |
|---|---|
| Order of Battle | Date |
| Army of Belgium | 1940 |
| British Expeditionary Force | 1940 |
| British First Army | April 20, 1943 |
| British First Army | May 4, 1943 |
| the Chindits | 1943–1944 |
| Army of Finland | 1939 |
| German Air Force | April 9, 1940 |
| German Ninth Army | October 1941 |
| Japanese forces in the South Pacific | 1944–1945 |
| Japanese forces in Southeast Asia | 1941 to 1945 |
| RAF Coastal Command order of battle during World War II | September 1939 to June 1944 |
| Polish Army | 1939 |
| Polish cavalry | 1939 |
| Polish Navy | 1939 |
| Soviet Air Force | May 1, 1945 |
| Turkish Army | June 1941 (941-A Seferî Kuruluş) |
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