The 'Battle of Cape Bon' was a naval engagement between two Italian light cruisers and a British destroyer flotilla off Cape Bon in Tunisia (13 December 1941)., At the time of... Read More

The 'Battle of Cape Gloucester' was fought between Allied and Japanese forces on the island of New Britain, off the eastern coast of New Guinea (26 December 1943/16 January 19... Read More

The 'Battle of Cape Passero' was a naval action fought between the British light cruiser Ajax and a force of seven Italian destroyers and torpedo boats off Cape Passero, to t... Read More

The 'Battle of Cape Spada' was a naval battle between British and Italian naval forces in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Spada, the north-western extremity of Crete, within th... Read More

The 'Battle of Cape Spartivento', known in Italy as the 'Battle of Cape Teulada', was a naval battle fought between British and Italian naval forces off Sardinia (27 November ... Read More

The 'Battle of Cape St George' was a naval battle fought between US and Japanese forces in the watersa between Cape St George, New Ireland, and Buka island (25 November 1943).... Read More

The 'Battle of Cherbourg' was the US campaign to take the northern French port of Cherbourg and thus part of the Battle of Normandy during 'Overlord' (6/30 June 1944)., The ba... Read More

The 'Battle of Christmas Island' was a small engagement between Japanese and British forces for Christmas island in the Indian Ocean as 'X' (31 March/1 April 1942)., Assisted ... Read More

The 'Battle of Cisterna' was fought between US and German forces within the context of the Battle of Anzio following the 'Shingle' landings (30 January/2 February 1944)., The ... Read More

The 'Battle of Corregidor' was fought between Japanese forces and US and Filipino forces for the fortified island of Corregidor in the mouth of Manila Bay, and thus the culmin... Read More

The 'Battle of Crete', which was known to the Germans as 'Merkur' (i), was fought between German and Italian forces as a 'triphibious' undertaking against British Commonwealt... Read More

The 'Battle of Crucifix Hill' was a small battle between US and German forces on Crucifix Hill (otherwise the Haarberg and Hill 239) outside village of Haaren near Aachen in n... Read More

The 'Battle of Dakar was the naval core of the undertaking known to the British as 'Menace' (31 August/29 September 1940)), and was a British and Free French attempt to take t... Read More

The 'Battle of Damascus' was the final action of the Allied advance on Damascus, the capital of Syria, during the 'Exporter' campaign to expel the Vichy French from Lebanon an... Read More

The 'Battle of Damour' was the last major operation of the Australian forces during the British-led 'Exporter' campaign to take Syria and Lebanon from the Vichy French forces ... Read More

The 'Battle of Danzig Bay' took place at the beginning of 'Weiss' (i) as German warplanes attacked Polish warships in Danzig Bay as the first air.sea battle of World War II (1... Read More

The 'Battle of Davao' was one of the first undertakings in the Japanese invasion of the Philippine islands group and designed to provide the Japanese forces with Davao, togeth... Read More

The 'Battle of Deir ez-Zor' was part of the Allied 'Exporter' operation to wrest Syria and Lebanon from the Vichy French (3 July 1941)., The Battle of Deir ez-Zor is notable f... Read More

The 'Battle of Dombås' was fought between German airborne and Norwegian land forces in the area to the south of Trondheim in Norway (14/19 April 1940)., The immediate spur fo... Read More

The 'Battle of Drazgose' was a battle between Slovene partisans and the German armed forces in the village of Drazgose in that part of Slovenia annexed by Germany after 'Unter... Read More

The 'Battle of Drøbak Sound' was fought between German naval and Norwegian coast-defence forces in Drøbak Sound, the northernmost part of the outer Oslofjord in southern Nor... Read More

The 'Battle of Dunkirk' was fought between German and Allied forces around the north-eastern French port of Dunkirk (Dunkerque in French) as the Allies were losing the Battle ... Read More

The 'Battle of Dutch Harbor' was fought between Japanese and US forces above Dutch Harbor on Amaknak island in the Aleutian islands group (3/4 June 1942)., The battle began wh... Read More

The 'Battle of Edson’s Ridge., sometimes known as the 'Battle of the Bloody Ridge', 'Battle of Raiders Ridge' and 'Battle of the Ridge', was a battle fought between Japanese... Read More

The 'Battle of El Guettar' was fought within the context of the Tunisian campaign between elements of Generaloberst Hans-Jürgen von Arnim’s Heeresgruppe 'Afrika' and Genera... Read More

The 'Battle of Elsenborn Ridge' was a battle fought by German and US forces within the northernmost part of the German 'Wacht am Rhein' offensive (16/26 December 1944)., The a... Read More

The 'Battle of Empress Augusta Bay', sometimes known as the 'Battle of Gazelle Bay, was fought between Japanese and US naval forces in the area of Empress Augusta Bay on Bouga... Read More

The 'Battle of France' was fought between Germany (and later Italy) against the Allied powers for France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands (10 May/25 June 1940)., On 3 ... Read More

The 'Battle of Gabon' was the Free French campaign to take control of Gabon from the Vichy France and also to rally French Equatorial Africa to Free France (27 October/12 Nove... Read More

The 'Battle of Gazala' was fought between Axis and Allied forces during the Western Desert campaign in the area to the west of the port of Tobruk in Libya (26 May/21 June 1942... Read More

The 'Battle of Gdynia' was one of the larger battles in northern Poland during Germany’s 'Weiss' (i) invasion of Poland (8/14 September 1939)., Lying to the north-west of Da... Read More

The 'Battle of Gemmano' was a battle between British and German forces in the 'Gotisch-Linie' area near the Apennine mountains in northern Italy (4/15 September 1944)., The vi... Read More

The 'Battle of Gondar' between British and Italian forces was the last stand of the Italian forces in Italian East Africa (13/27 November 1941)., Gondar was the main town of A... Read More

The 'Battle of Gratangen' was an action between Norwegian and German troops during the first Norwegian counterattack in the campaign for Narvik in the north of the country (23... Read More

The 'Battle of Grodno' was a small battle between Soviet and Polish troops during the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland (20/22 September 1939)., The battle was fought between ... Read More

The 'Battle of Groningen' was the fight for the Dutch city of Groningen between Major General A. B. Matthews’s Canadian 2nd Division. supported by Dutch resistance elements ... Read More

The 'Battle of Grudziądz' was fought between German and Polish forces in the first days of the German 'Weiss' (i) invasion of Poland (1/4 September 1939)., The Polish city of... Read More

The 'Battle of Halbe' was a battle in eastern Germany between Soviet and German forces in which General Theodor Busse’s 9th Army was destroyed by Soviet forces advancing on ... Read More

The 'Battle of Hannut' was a battle between German and Allied forces at Hannut in Belgium within 'Gelb' (12/14 May 1940)., This was the largest tank battle in the 'Gelb' campa... Read More

The 'Battle of Hegra Fortress' was a German and Norwegian engagement in the Norwegian campaign within 'Weserübung' (15 April/5 May 1940)., In this engagement, a small force o... Read More

The 'Battle of Hel' was fought between German and Polish forces on the Hel peninsula of Poland’s Baltic Sea coast within the context of the German 'Weiss' (i) invasion of Po... Read More

The 'Battle of Henderson Field', which is also known as the 'Battle of Guadalcanal' or 'Battle of Lunga Point' by the Japanese, was fought between Japanese and US forces on an... Read More

The 'Battle of Honkaniemi' was a Soviet and Finnish engagement during the 'Talvisota' winter war and notable within this undertaking for being fought by tanks on the sole such... Read More

The 'Battle of Ilomantsi' was fought between Soviet and Finnish forces as part of the 'Svir-Petrozavodsk Offensive Operation' in what the Finns knew at the 'Jatkosota' (contin... Read More

The 'Battle of Imphal' was fought between Japanese and British forces in the area round the city of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur in north-eastern India (8 March... Read More

The 'Battle of Iwo Jima' was the US seizure from the Japanese of Iwo Jima island, the central and largest of the three islands of the Kazan-retto (Volcano islands group) in 'D... Read More

The 'Battle of Jarosław' was a German and Polish battle within 'Weiss' (i) for the Polish city of Jarosław on the San river (10/11 September 1939)., During the battle the Po... Read More

The 'Battle of Java', which was known to the Japanese as 'J', was fought between Japanese and Allied forces for the island of Java in the Netherlands East Indies (28 February/... Read More

The 'Battle of Jezzine' was part of the advance of Major General J. D. Lavarack’s Australian 7th Division through Lebanon toward Beirut during the five-week-long Allied 'Exp... Read More

The 'Battle of Jitra' was a battle between the Japanese troops of the 'Seiki' Detachment and the British-led British and Indian troops of Lieutenant General Sir Louis Heath’... Read More