View Great Battles of World War II
* 1939 Poland September 1 - October 6 - Start of World War II in Europe
* 1940 Battle of France May 9 - May 15 - Germany takes on France, British Expeditionary Force and French Army Defeated
* 1941 Battle of Crete May 20 - June 1 - German paratroopers capture Crete, suffer many casualties.
* 1941 Battle of Pearl Harbor December 7 - Japanese carrier task force destroys U.S. Fleet in surprise attack
* 1942 Battle of the Java Sea February 4 - March 1 Japanese wipe out Allied naval squadron
* 1942 Battle of Midway June 3 - US loses USS Yorktown; Japanese lose four aircraft carriers
* 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal August 8 - Beginning of Allied action in Solomon Islands
* 1943 Battle of Kursk July - Germans attack Kursk salient at Orel and Belgorod; Russians drive them back; arguably the largest tank battle ever fought.
* 1944 Battle of Normandy June 6 - August 25 - Allies invade northern France across the Normandy beaches (Operation Overlord); hard fighting from Cherbourg to Caen; Germans surrounded and destroyed at Falaise
* 1944 Battle of Arnhem September 17 - 26 - The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed
* 1944 Battle of the Bulge December 16 - January 27, 1945 - German counterattack in Ardennes; General McAuliffe says “NUTS” at Bastogne
* 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima March 26 - After a month, US takes the island
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Category:World War II