Decisive battles of WWII

D-Day, Normandy and Beyond

All together in one easy overview

D-Day, Normandy and Beyond

The epic battles of WWII

The most epic and decisive battles of WW2

A new section of my website which will feature the most decisive battles and epic clashes of the war. I decided to keep it to merely a short summary in order to give you an overview on things. On every detail page you can visit external websites which will give you a lot of detailed information on that specific battle.

Still a lot of battles have to be added to this list and they will be featured in the time to come.

23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943

Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad (August 23, 1942 – February 2, 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. Marked by constant close quarters combat and disregard for military and civilian casualties, it is among the bloodiest battles in the history of warfar...

Operation Overlord | Battle of France

Why was June 6 1944, called D-day? Did it stand the "D" for Descision Day? Doom day? Destruction Day? No, the D basically means "day." Like H-Hour on D-Day in this case H-Hour on D-Day was 06:00 on June 6 1944. This descirption was traditionally used to date any important military operation. Along these lines the day preceding June 6, 1944, was known as D-1 and the days after were D+1, D+2, D...

December 7, 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II. Extra Newsbulletin! Original ...

February 19 – March 26, 1945

Battle of Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields (including South Field and Central Field), to provide a staging area for attacks on the J...

17 – 26 September 1944

The Battle of Arnhem | Market Garden

By September 1944, Allied forces had successfully broken out of their Normandy beachhead and pursued shattered German forces across Northern France and Belgium. Although Allied commanders generally favoured a broad front policy to continue the advance into Germany and the Netherlands, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery proposed a bold plan to head north through the Dutch Gelderland, bypassing the...

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