The 'Battle of Saumur' was a clash between German and French forces during the later stages of the German 'Rot' (iii) completion of the Battle of France during, in which offic... Read More

The 'Battle of Savo Island' is also known as the '1st Battle of Savo Island' and, to the Japanese, as the '1st Battle of the Solomon Sea', and was fought between Japanese and ... Read More

The 'Battle of Shumshu' was fought between Soviet and Japanese forces for Shumshu. the northernmost part of the Kurile islands group between Kamchatka and Hokkaido, the most n... Read More

The 'Battle of Sidi Bou Zid' was a battle between German and primarily US forces within the German 'Frühlingswind' operation in Tunisia (14/17 February 1943)., The battle was... Read More

The 'Battle of Singapore' was the culmination of the Japanese 'E' (i) operation to take Malaya and resulted in the Japanese seizure of Singapore island and its great naval bas... Read More

The 'Battle of Slater’s Knoll' was a battle between Japanese and Australian forces on Bougainville island in the last part of the Bougainville campaign in the Solomon island... Read More

The 'Battle of Studzianki' was a tactical engagement within 'Bagration' between elements of the Soviet and Polish forces and the German army in an area to the south of Warsaw ... Read More

The 'Battle of Suomussalmi' was fought between Soviet and Finnish forces for Suomussalmi, a town on the eastern side of central Finland within the 'Talvisota' winter war (30 N... Read More

The 'Battle of Szack' was a battle fought between Soviet and Polish forces during the former’s seizure of eastern Poland at the time of the German 'Weiss' (i) seizure of wes... Read More

The 'Battle of Tachiao' between Japanese and Chinese forces was the first of the three clashes that together constituted the 'Battle of Yunnan and the Burma Road' in the Burma... Read More

The 'Battle of Tali-Ihantala' was part of the Finnish-Soviet Continuation War or 'Jatkosota' (25 June/9 July 1944)., The battle marked the point in the Soviet 'Vyborg-Petrozav... Read More

The 'Battle of Taranto', otherwise known as the 'Judgement' operation, was a naval air/sea battle fought between British carrierborne aircraft of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham... Read More

The 'Battle of Tarawa' was fought between US and Japanese forces for the atoll of Tarawa in the Gilbert islands group as part of the 'Galvanic' operation by the US forces to t... Read More

The 'Battle of Tassafaronga', which is sometimes known as the '4th Battle of Savo Island'; or, to the Japanese, as the 'Battle of Lunga Point', was a naval battle fought betwe... Read More

The 'Battle of Tehumardi' was a battle fought between Soviet and German forces as part of the former’s 'Moonzund Landing Operation' on the Estonian island of Saaremaa (Ōsel... Read More

The 'Battle of the Admin Box', which is sometimes known as the 'Battle of Ngakyedauk' and the 'Battle of Sinzweya', was fought between Japanese and British troops in the Araka... Read More

The 'Battle of the Afsluitdijk' was a small battle fought between German and Dutch forces as the Germans attempted to take the Afsluitdijk (enclosure dike) during their 'Gelb'... Read More

The 'Battle of the Argenta Gap' was fought between British and German forces within the British 'Buckland' offensive of the spring of 1945 during the closing stages of the Ita... Read More

The 'Battle of the Atlantic' was the longest continuous campaign of World War II and pitted Allied merchant and naval mariners and airmen against German and Italian submariner... Read More

The 'Battle of the Badung Strait' was a naval engagement of the Pacific campaign between ships of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command and the Imperial Japanese navy ... Read More

The 'Battle of the Barents Sea' was a naval engagement in the Barents Sea, to the north of the North Cape in German-occupied Norway, between German and British warships, the l... Read More

The 'Battle of the Beams' was an electronic conflict 'fought' between the Germans and the British in an early period of World War II when German bombers used a number of incre... Read More

The 'Battle of the Bismarck Sea' was an air and naval engagement fought between US and Australian forces and Japanese forces in the South-West Pacific Area (2/4 March 1943)., ... Read More

The 'Battle of the Border' was a series of battles fought between German and Slovak forces and Polish forces in Poland’s western border regions as the Germans launched their... Read More

The 'Battle of the Bzura River', otherwise known as the 'Battle of Kutno', was the largest Polish counter-offensive against the German 'Weiss' (i) invasion of Poland (9/19 Sep... Read More

The 'Battle of the Caribbean Sea' was more a campaign than a single event, and refers to the naval undertaking fought between the Allies and the German and Italian navies in t... Read More

The 'Battle of the Cigno Convoy' was a naval engagement between two British destroyers and two Italian torpedo boats in the area to the south-east of Marettimo island to the w... Read More

The 'Battle of the Coral Sea' was a naval battle with strategic implications between the Imperial Japanese navy and the naval and air forces of the USA and Australia (4/8 May ... Read More

The 'Battle of the Denmark Strait' was a naval engagement between ships of the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine in the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland (24 May 1941... Read More

The 'Battle of Driniumor River', sometimes known as the 'Battle of Aitape', was fought between US and Japanese forces in the area of Aitape in North-East New Guinea (10 July/2... Read More

The 'Battle of the Duisburg Convoy', also known as the 'Battle of the Beta Convoy', was fought between Italian and British naval forces and involved an Italian convoy, its esc... Read More

The 'Battle of The Hague' was fought between German airborne forces and Dutch army personnel for the city of The Hague, capital of the Netherlands, during the German 'Gelb' in... Read More

The 'Battle of the Hürtgenwald' was a series of battles fought between US and German troops in the Hürtgenwald, a 54-sq mile (140-km²) area about 3.1 miles (5 km) to the ea... Read More

The 'Battle of the Kerch Peninsula' began with the Soviet 'Kerch-Feodosiya Landing Operation' and ended with the German 'Trappenjagd', and was fought between the Soviet Crimea... Read More

The 'Battle of the Kula Gulf' was a naval battle fought between US and Japanese forces off the eastern coast of Kolombangara island in the Solomon islands group (6 July 1943).... Read More

The 'Battle of the Litani River' was a battle fought by largely Australian forces against Vichy French forces in Lebanon as part of the British-led 'Exporter' campaign to take... Read More

The 'Battle of the Makassar Strait', which is also known as the 'Action of the Madura Strait', the 'Action North of the Lombok Strait' and the 'Battle of the Flores Sea', was ... Read More

The 'Battle of the Malacca Strait' was a naval battle that resulted from the British 'Dukedom' search-and-destroy operation and culminated in the sinking of the Japanese heavy... Read More

The 'Battle of the Netherlands' was the German invasion and conquest of the Netherlands within the 'Gelb' undertaking to defeat the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France... Read More

The 'Battle of the North Cape' was a naval battle fought between British and German forces off the North Cape of Norway as part of the Arctic campaign (26 December 1943)., The... Read More

The 'Battle of the Philippine Islands' was the campaign in which Japanese forces took the Philippine islands group and defeated the Filipino and US forces seeking to hold them... Read More

The 'Battle of the Polish Border' comprised the many engagements between German and Polish forces in the first days of the German 'Weiss' (i) invasion of Poland 1/4 September ... Read More

The 'Battle of the Raate Road' was fought between Soviet and Finnish forces during the 'Jatkosota' winter war as part of the 'Battle of Suomussalmi' in the eastern area of cen... Read More

The 'Battle of the River Plate' was fought in the South Atlantic as the first naval battle of World War II, and involved the German 'pocket battleship' Admiral Graf Spee, or P... Read More

The 'Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands', sometimes known as the '3rd Battle of the Solomon Sea', was the fourth aircraft carrier battle fought between the Japanese and American... Read More

The 'Battle of the Scheldt' was a series of operations by the Canadian 1st Army, with Polish and British units attached, to clear German forces and thereby open the shipping r... Read More

The 'Battle of the Seelow Heights' was fought between Soviet and German forces within the 'Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation' (16/19 April 1945)., This was one of the last ... Read More

The 'Battle of the Skerki Bank' was a naval engagement fought between British-led and Axis forces off the coast of North Africa (2 December 1942)., In thus undertaking, the Ro... Read More

The 'Battle of the Slim River' was fought between Japanese and British-led Indian forces during the Malayan campaign in January 1942 on the western coast of Malaya (7 January ... Read More

The 'Battle of the Sunda Strait' was a naval battle between Allied and Japanese forces in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies (28... Read More