List of World War II battles


Image:A heavy explosion on board USS Lexington blows an aircraft over her side, 8 May 1942.jpg|thumb|250px|USS Lexington explodes during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
This is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, military operations, and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large area of territory and over a long period. Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localised to a specific area and over a specific period. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war.

Battles in 1942

African Front

Mediterranean Front

Western Front

Operation Blackout

Eastern Front

Battle of Vilya

[Yugoslav Partisans]

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[Greece]

Pacific Front

China Front

Military engagements during occupations

Resistances

Naval engagements

General
Specific
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945

Major bombing campaigns

General
Specific

Operations

Raids

Small to medium-sized raiding operations were carried out by both Allied and Axis armies during World War II. The modus operandi used included guerrilla attacks by partisans in occupied territory and/or combined operations involving the landing and removal of specialised light infantry, such as commandos, by means of small boats.
Raiding units

Defensive lines

Contemporaneous wars