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1	Battle of Stalingrad	6,983
2	Battle of the Bulge	4,558
3	Operation Market Garden	2,706
4	Invasion of Normandy	2,253
5	Omaha Beach	2,185
6	Operation Overlord	2,102
7	Warsaw Uprising	1,975
8	Operation Paperclip	1,969
9	Operation Bagration	945
10	Operation Torch	921
11	Operation Downfall	918
12	Falaise pocket	740
13	Brécourt Manor Assault	647
14	Battle of Arnhem	549
15	Pointe du Hoc	506
16	Juno Beach	494
17	Anglo-Iraqi War	490
18	Operation Cobra	475
19	List of military operations	472
20	Utah Beach	456
21	East African Campaign (World War II)	456
22	Operation Clausewitz	406
23	Battle for Caen	338
24	Battle of Madagascar	334
25	Sword Beach	332
26	Operation Varsity	330
27	Operation Cornflakes	323
28	Gold Beach	305
29	Operation Bernhard	301
30	Battle of Carentan	279
31	Battle of Wuhan	276
32	Operation Goodwood	265
33	British occupation of the Faroe Islands	262
34	Syria-Lebanon Campaign	249
35	Battle of Villers-Bocage	243
36	Battle of Aachen	232
37	American airborne landings in Normandy	221
38	Channel Dash	216
39	Operation Foxley	208
40	Operation Tempest	190
41	Operation Tonga	153
42	Italian conquest of British Somaliland	151
43	Marzabotto massacre	148
44	Operation Vigorous	140
45	Belgrade Offensive	140
46	Operation Totalize	139
47	Hill 262	139
48	Ruhr Pocket	127
49	Second Great Fire of London	126
50	Operation Epsom	122
51	Saar Offensive	122
52	Bombing of Belgrade in World War II	117
53	Operation Majestic	114
54	Operation Lüttich	114
55	Battle of Tarakan (1945)	111
56	Task Force Baum	108
57	Operation Tractable	107
58	Elsenborn Ridge	103
59	Operation Alsos	102
60	Operation Charnwood	100
61	Battle of Gabon	96
62	Operation Sledgehammer	95
63	Operation Undergo	93
64	Operation Jupiter (1944)	90
65	Battle of Java (1942)	90
66	Bombing of Lübeck in World War II	90
67	Battle of Poljana	89
68	Fall Grün	88
69	Operation Claymore	84
70	Operation Basalt	83
71	Battle of Keren	81
72	Operation Perch	81
73	Battle of the Caribbean	79
74	Battle of Sidi Bou Zid	78
75	Operation Doomsday	71
76	Operation Jaywick	69
77	Operation Epsilon	69
78	Lookout Air Raids	68
79	Operation Ostra Brama	66
80	Battle of Muar	66
81	Operation Windsor	66
82	Battle of Tarakan (1942)	65
83	Battle of Christmas Island	63
84	Military operations in Scandinavia and Iceland during World War II	63
85	Operation Astonia	63
86	Battle of Balikpapan (1942)	60
87	Operation Tiderace	60
88	Operation Spring	58
89	Operation Atlantic	57
90	Operation Bluecoat	56
91	Allied siege of La Rochelle	52
92	Operations Reckless and Persecution	51
93	Battle of Le Mesnil-Patry	49
94	Battle of Nanchang	48
95	Liberation of Arnhem	48
96	Strategic bombing survey	46
97	Battle of Lanzareth ridge	46
98	Operation Rimau	45
99	Operation Bulbasket	45
100	Operation Crossword	44
101	Trans-Iranian Railway	43
102	Second Battle of the Odon	43
103	Battle of Port Lyautey	42
104	Battle of Gondar	41
105	Operation Salaam	40
106	Operation Martlet	40
107	Operation Catechism	39
108	Operation Pastel	38
109	Operation Roundup (1942)	38
110	Operation Fusilade	37
111	Japanese raiders in Indian Ocean Campaign	36
112	Battle of Jitra	36
113	Battle of Slivice	36
114	Siege of Lille (1940)	35
115	Operation Wellhit	35
116	Granville Raid	33
117	Project Danny	33
118	Operation Fustian	32
119	Operation Outward	32
120	Liberation of La Réunion	32
121	Operation Sea Eagle	31
122	Battle of Kesternich	31
123	Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive	31
124	Operation Backfire (WWII)	30
125	Bombing of Romania in World War II	30
126	Air warfare of World War II	30
127	Operation Cobra order of battle	29
128	Operation Stonewall	28
129	Battle of Damascus	28
130	Operation Bajadere	27
131	Operation Maple	26
132	Operation Houndsworth	26
133	Battle of Lone Tree Hill	25
134	British airborne operations in North Africa	25
135	Clearing the Channel Coast	25
136	Battle of Moerbrugge	24
137	Battle of Loznica (1941)	24
138	Battle on Lijevča field	23
139	Operation Goodwood order of battle	23
140	Kosovo Operation (1944)	22
141	Operation Jubilee order of battle	21
142	Landing at Aitape	21
143	Operation Perch order of battle	21
144	Operation Big	20
145	Operation Diadem	20
146	Operation Obviate	20
147	Battle of Belgium (1940) order of battle	20
148	Operation Mainau	19
149	Operation Accumulator	19
150	Operation Surgeon	18
151	Battle of Deir ez-Zor	18
152	Battle of Troina	17
153	Raid at St. Lorenzen	17
154	Lepe, Hampshire	17
155	Order of battle for Operation Epsom	17
156	Operation Python (1943–1944)	16
157	Operation Forager	15
158	Operation Paravane	15
159	Operation Savannah	14
160	Battle of Wakde	14
161	Operation Span	13
162	Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific War)	12
163	Battle of the Argenta Gap	12
164	Operation Delphin	12
165	Battle of Villers-Bocage order of battle	11
166	Operation Schamil	11
167	Invasion of Elba	11
168	Operation Blackstone	10
169	Operation Terminal	10
170	Battle of Broekhuizen	10
171	Battle of Kissoué	9
172	Allied bombing	9
173	Operation Harborage	8
174	Landing at Hollandia	8
175	Operation Pomegranate (SAS)	7
176	Battles of Arkan	7
177	Operation Star	7
178	Battle of Livno	7
179	Military operations	less than 5 views
180	Military engagements of World War II	less than 5 views
181	World War II military operations	less than 5 views
182	Special Operations Executive operations in World War II	less than 5 views
183	Naval and land-based operations in Mediterranean Sea area during World War II	less than 5 views
184	Military operations on the Eastern Front of World War II	less than 5 views
185	Naval and land-based operations in Pacific Theater during World War II	less than 5 views
186	Military operations in the West European Theater during World War II by year	less than 5 views
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This category contains historical battles fought as part of the Second World War (1939–1945). Please see the category guidelines for more information. A battle during the Second World War was a conceptual component in the hierarchy of warfare between belligerents, with each group seeking to defeat the other within the scope of a military campaign, and are well defined in duration, area and force commitment. The duration is usually less than a month, and the area is occupied by a force larger than an Army Corps, but smaller than a Field Army.

While military campaigns are guided by strategy, battles are executed on a level of staff planning known as operational warfare. A battle during the Second World War was defined by the specific military objectives, within a time-frame of less than a month. Where the duration of the battle was longer than a week, they were often for reasons of staff operational planning called operations. Battles or operations can be planned, encountered, or forced by one force on the other when it is unable to withdraw from combat.

Sometimes combat battles and operations are confused with the combats named operations due to use of a code name, but which are not necessarily either a battle or an operation, such as the Operation Barbarossa which was a campaign.

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