The 'Battle of the Tuchola Forest' was a battle fought between German and Polish forces within the context of the 'Battle of the Border, which was the first stage of the Germa... Read More

The 'Battle of the Visayan Islands' was the small campaign between the Japanese forces and the US and Filipino forces for control of the Visayan islands group (10/20 April 194... Read More

The 'Battle of Thermopylai' was fought between German and Antipodean troops in Greece within the context of the Germans' 'Marita' invasion of Greece (24/25 April 1941)., After... Read More

The 'Battle of Tienhaara' was fought between Soviet and Finnish forces within the 'Jatkosota' continuation war to the north of Viipuri (22 June 1944)., After the Soviets had c... Read More

The 'Battle of Timor' was fought between Japanese and Allied forces in the Dutch and Portuguese colonies on the island of Timor in the East Indies (19 February 1942/10 Februar... Read More

The 'Battle of Tinian' was fought between US and Japanese forces for the island of Tinian in the Mariana islands group as part of the US 'Forager' strategic operation (24 July... Read More

The 'Battle of Tolvajärvi' was fought in Ladoga Karelia between Soviet and Finnish forces within the context of the 'Talvisota' winter war, and was Finland’s first major su... Read More

The 'Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski' was fought between German and Polish forces near the town of Tomaszów Lubelski within the context of the German 'Weiss' (i) invasion of Pol... Read More

The 'Battle of Tornio' was the first major engagement between Finnish and German forces in the 'Lapinsota' Lapland war although there had already been smaller-scale hostilitie... Read More

The 'Battle of Toungoo' was fought between Japanese and Chinese forces as one of the key battles in the 'Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road' in the Burma campaign, and Chinese failur... Read More

The 'Battle of Troina' was fought between Allied and Axis forces in the later stages of the 'Husky' (i) Allied seizure of Sicily as elements of Lieutenant General Omar N. Brad... Read More

The 'Battle of Uman' was an encirclement battle fought between Axis and Soviet forces in the area of the Ukrainian city of Uman within the context of the German 'Barbarossa' i... Read More

The 'Battle of Verrières Ridge' was a series of engagements fought between Canadian and German forces in the Calvados region as part of the 'Battle of Normandy' (19/25 July 1... Read More

The 'Battle of Vevi', also known as the 'Battle of the Klidi Pass', was fought to the north of Amyntaion, close to the Greek north-western border, between German and Allied fo... Read More

The 'Battle of Vigan' was one of the initial movements in the Japanese 'M' (ii) invasion of Luzon in the Philippine islands group (10 December 1941)., The landing was one of a... Read More

The 'Battle of Villers Bocage' was fought between British and German forces one week after the 'Neptune' (iii) landings had launched the 'Overlord' campaign in Normandy (13 Ju... Read More

The 'Battle of Vinjesvingen' was fought between German and Norwegian troops in Telemark county of Norway (3/5 May 1940)., Vinjesvingen was one of the last two strongholds of N... Read More

The 'Battle of Vuosalmi', which is also known as the 'Battle of Äyräpää-Vuosalmi, was fought between Soviet and Finnish forces within the context of the 'Jatkosota' contin... Read More

The 'Battle of Vyborg Bay' was fought between Soviet and Finnish forces, the latter with German support, during the 'Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive Operation' (30 June/10 July ... Read More

The 'Battle of Wau' was fought between Australian and Japanese forces in New Guinea (29 January/4 February 1943)., In 'Sr', Japanese forces had departed the base area at Rabau... Read More

The 'Battle of Węgierska Górka' was the Polish defence of a fortified area in the south of Silesia against the German forces during the first phase of the German invasion of... Read More

The 'Battle of Westerplatte' was fought between German and Polish forces as the first battle of the German 'Weiss' (i) invasion of Poland (1/7 September 1939)., The battle too... Read More

The 'Battle of Wizna' was fought between German and Polish forces in the early stages of the German 'Weiss' (i) invasion of Poland (7/10 September 1939)., In this battle, a fo... Read More

The 'Battle of Wola Cyrusowa' was fought between German and Polish forces near the village of Wola Cyrusowa in the area of Stryków during Germany’s 'Weiss' (i) invasion of ... Read More

The 'Battle of Wólka Węglowa' was fought between German and Polish troops within the contexts of the German 'Weiss' (i) invasion of Poland and the Polish 'Zachod' defence pl... Read More

The 'Battle of Wytyczno' was fought between small Soviet and Polish forces near the village of Wytyczno in the Włodawa area of eastern Poland as the Soviets invaded and overr... Read More

The 'Battle of Yenangyaung' was a battle between the British and Chinese defence for and the Japanese aggressor forces for Yenangyaung during the Japanese 'B' (iii) invasion o... Read More

The 'Battle of Zeeland' was fought between German and Allied forces in the Dutch province of Zeeland during the early stages of the German 'Gelb' invasion of the Low Countries... Read More

The 'Battle of Łódź' was fought between the German and Polish forces during the German invasion of Poland in 'Weiss' (i) (6/8 September 1939)., The German invasion had seen... Read More

The 'Battle off Calabria' was the inconclusive naval engagement between British and Italian naval forces resulting from the British 'ME1' undertaking (9 July 1940). ... Read More

This was the naval engagement, which has never received an official designation, off the coast of Western Australia between the Australian light cruiser Sydney and the German ... Read More

The 'Battle off Horaniu' was fought between US and Japanese naval forces as a minor naval engagement of the Pacific War and took place near Vella Lavella in the Solomon island... Read More

'Battleaxe' (i) was a British offensive in North Africa designed to pin the Axis forces in front of Sollum while a combined infantry and armoured force swung to the north-west... Read More

'Battleaxe' (ii) was the Australian naval gunfire support for the land operations of Major General Alan H. Ramsay’s Australian 5th Division and Major General Jack E. S. Stev... Read More

The 'Battle of Cape Matapan, was a naval battle fought between British and Italian force off Cape Matapan on the south-western coast of Greece’s Peloponnesian peninsula (27/... Read More

The 'Battle of Pakokku' and the subsequent Irrawaddy river operations were a series of battles fought between the British and Japanese, and were instrumental in facilitating t... Read More

The 'Battle of Overloon' was fought between the Allies and the Germans in and around the village of Overloon in the south-eastern Netherlands (30 September/18 October 1944)., ... Read More

'Batty' was the British alternative designation for 'Orphan' (i) (1944/45). ... Read More

'Baumblüte' was a German special forces operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in German-occupied Yugoslavia (18 March 1944)., The operation was und... Read More

'Baus Au' was a US plan by Brigadier General Bradford G. Chynoweth, commander of the Filipino and US forces on the Visayan islands group in the Philippine islands archipelago,... Read More

The 'Bayern-Linie' was the German second intermediate fallback position in Belorussia, in the area of Kholm and Baturino, during the withdrawal of Generalfeldmarschall Günthe... Read More

'Bayleaf' was a British unrealised anti-shipping sweep planned as a repeat of 'Posthorn' (24 February 1944). , To have been undertaken off the west coast of German-occupied No... Read More

'Baytown' (i) was the Allied first amphibious landing in mainland Italy, in which formations of General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s British 8th Army crossed the Strait of Messi... Read More

'Baytown' (ii) was a British special forces operation by the Special Raiding Squadron (1st Special Air Service renamed after the end of the North African campaign) under the c... Read More

'Bazaar' was a US unrealised plan to provide the USSR with air support in Siberia (using aircraft ferried from Alaska) in the event of a Japanese invasion of the eastern USSR ... Read More

'BB' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Belfast Lough or, in two cases, Holyhead, to Milford Haven (January 194... Read More

'BB' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Clyde river to the Bristol Channel (1945). ... Read More

'BC' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route between the Bristol Channel and ports of the Loire river and Quiberon Bay in... Read More

'BC' (ii) was the designation of British special convoys (with a letter rather than numerical suffix) plying African routes (June/July 1940)., The first of the series was BC.B... Read More

'BC' (iii) was the designation of a US convoy (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Charleston, South Carolina, to Bora Bora, French Society islands group (... Read More