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This is a list of World War II battles, sorted by front location.
African Front
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North African campaign: June 1940 – May 1943
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Western Desert campaign: June 1940 – February 1943
- Italian invasion of Egypt: September 1940
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Operation Compass: December 1940 – February 1941
- Battle of Nibeiwa: December 1940
- Battle of Sidi Barrani: December 1940
- Siege of Giarabub: December 1940 – March 1941
- Battle of Bardia: January 1941
- Battle of Mechili: January 1941
- Capture of Kufra: January–March 1941
- Battle of Beda Fomm: February 1941
- Operation Sonnenblume: February–May 1941
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Siege of Tobruk: April–November 1941
- Bardia raid: April 1941
- Operation Brevity: May 1941
- Operation Skorpion: May 1941
- Operation Battleaxe: June 1941
- Twin Pimples raid: July 1941
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Operation Crusader: November–December 1941
- First Action at Bir el Gubi: November 1941
- Battle of Point 175: November–December 1941
- Second Action at Bir el Gubi: December 1941
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Battle of Gazala: May–June 1942
- Battle of Bir Hakeim: May–June 1942
- First Battle of El Alamein: July 1942
- Battle of Alam el Halfa: August–September 1942
- Second Battle of El Alamein: October–November 1942
- Battle of El Agheila: December 1942
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Operation Torch: November 1942
- Operation Terminal: 8 November 1942
- Naval Battle of Casablanca
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Tunisia Campaign: November 1942 – May 1943
- Battle of the Kasserine Pass: February 1943
- Battle of Sidi Bou Zid: February 1943
- Battle of Medenine: March 1943
- Battle of the Mareth Line: March 1943
- Battle of El Guettar: March–April 1943
- Operation Flax: April 1943
- Battle of Longstop Hill (1943): April 1943
- Battle of Hill 609: April–May 1943
- Operation Vulcan: May 1943
- Operation Retribution: May 1943
- Operation Strike: May 1943
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Western Desert campaign: June 1940 – February 1943
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East African Campaign: June 1940 – November 1941
- Italian invasion of Sudan: June 1940
- Italian conquest of British Somaliland: August 1940
- Battle of Agordat: January 1941
- Battle of Keren: February 1941
- Siege of Saïo: March 1941
- Battle of Amba Alagi: May 1941
- Battle of Culqualber: August–November 1941
- Battle of Gondar: November 1941
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West African Campaign: September–November 1940
- Battle of Dakar: September 1940
- Battle of Gabon: November 1940
- South African Internal Campaign: 1941–1942
Middle Eastern Front
- Iraq Campaign: May 1941
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Syria–Lebanon Campaign: June–July 1941
- Battle of the Litani River: June 1941
- Battle of Sidon (1941): June 1941
- Battle of Kissoué: June 1941
- Battle of Merdjayoun: June 1941
- Battle of Palmyra: July 1941
- Battle of Deir ez-Zor: July 1941
- Battle of Damour: July 1941
- Battle of Beirut: July 1941
- Iran Campaign: August–September 1941
Mediterranean Front
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Battle of the Mediterranean Sea: June 1940–May 1945
- Battle of the Espero Convoy
- Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
- Battle of Calabria
- Battle of Cape Spada
- Battle of Cape Passero (1940)
- Battle of Taranto
- Battle of Cape Spartivento
- Operation Excess
- Raid on Souda Bay
- Battle of Cape Matapan
- Battle of the Tarigo Convoy
- Operation Substance
- Operation Halberd
- Battle of the Duisburg Convoy
- Battle of Cape Bon (1941)
- First Battle of Sirte
- Raid on Alexandria (1941)
- Second Battle of Sirte
- Operation Vigorous
- Operation Pedestal
- Battle of Skerki Bank
- Raid on Algiers
- Battle of the Cigno Convoy
- Battle of the Campobasso Convoy
- Battle of the Messina Convoy
- Operation Scylla
- Battle of the Ligurian Sea
- Siege of Malta: June 1940 – December 1942
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Balkan campaign: October 1940 – June 1941
- Italian Invasion of Greece: October 1940 – April 1941
- Axis invasion of Yugoslavia: April 1941
- German invasion of Greece: April 1941
- Operation Agreement: September 1942
- Operation Strangle: March 1943 – June 1944
- Allied invasion of Sicily: July–August 1943
- Allied invasion of Italy: September 1943
- Dodecanese Campaign: September–October 1943
- Battle of Naples: September 1943
- Volturno Line: October–November 1943
- Barbara Line: October–November 1943
- Air Raid on Bari: December 1943
- Battle of Ortona: December 1943
- Bernhardt Line: December 1943 – January 1944
- Moro River Campaign: December 1943
- Battle of Monte Cassino: January–May 1944
- Battle of Anzio: January–June 1944
- Trasimene Line: June–July 1944
- Battle of Ancona: June–July 1944
- Gothic Line: August–December 1944
- Battle of San Marino: September 1944
- Battle of Garfagnana: December 1944
- Battle of Monte Castello: November 1944 – February 1945
- Spring 1945 offensive in Italy: April–May 1945
Western Front
- French offensive into Germany: September 1939
- Operation Weserübung: April–June 1940
- Battle of the Netherlands: May 1940
- Battle of Belgium: May 1940
- German invasion of Luxembourg: May 1940
- Battle of France: May–June 1940
- Italian invasion of France: June 1940
- Battle of Britain: July–October 1940
- Operation Felix: June – August 1940
- Aerial incidents in Switzerland in World War II (1940–1945)
- The Blitz: September 1940 – May 1941
- Operation Cerberus: February 1942
- Operation Donnerkeil: February 1942
- St. Nazaire Raid: March 1942
- Dieppe Raid: August 1942
- Battle of Berlin (air): November 1943 – March 1944
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Western Allied invasion of France: June 1944–March 1945
- Operation Overlord: June–August 1944
- Operation Valkyrie: July 1944
- Operation Dragoon: August–September 1944
- Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine: August 1944 – March 1945
- Clearing the Channel Coast: September–November 1944
- Lorraine Campaign: September–December 1944
- Operation Market Garden: September 1944
- Battle of Moerbrugge: September 1944
- Battle of Aachen: September–October 1944
- Battle of Overloon: September–October 1944
- Battle of Hürtgen Forest: September–December 1944
- Operation Clipper: November 1944
- Battle of Vianden: November 1944
- Battle of Kesternich: December 1944 – February 1945
- Battle of the Bulge: December 1944 – January 1945
- Operation Nordwind: January 1945
- Colmar Pocket
- Operation Blackcock: January 1945
- Operation Veritable: February 1945
- Operation Grenade: February 1945
- Operation Lumberjack
- Western Allied invasion of Germany: March–May 1945
- Liberation of Arnhem
- Battle of Groningen
- Battle of Otterlo
Atlantic Ocean
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Battle of the Atlantic: 1939–1945
- Battle of the River Plate
- Altmark Incident
- Convoy SC 7
- Convoy HX 84
- Operation Berlin
- Action of 4 April 1941
- Action of 9 May 1941
- Battle of the Denmark Strait
- Battle of the Bismarck
- Operation Drumbeat
- Battle of Torpedo Alley
- Action of 27 March 1942
- Battle of the St. Lawrence
- Action of 6 June 1942
- Convoy PQ 17
- Naval Battle of Casablanca
- Battle of the Barents Sea
- Battle of Sept-Îles
- Battle of the North Cape
- Operation Stonewall
- Operation Teardrop
- Battle of Ushant
- Battle of Pierres Noires
- Action of 9 February 1945
- Battle of Point Judith
Eastern Front
- Sudeten German uprising: September–October 1938
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German Invasion of Poland: September–October 1939
- Battle of Westerplatte
- Battle of Mokra
- Battle of Mlawa
- Battle of Tuchola Forest
- Battle of Jordanów
- Battle of Borowa Góra
- Battle of Grudziądz
- Battle of Wizna
- Battle of Radom
- Battle of Piotrków Trybunalski
- Battle of Hel
- Battle of the Bzura
- Siege of Warsaw
- Battle of Lwów
- Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski
- Battle of Krasnobród
- Battle of Kock
- Soviet invasion of Poland: September–October 1939
- Soviet invasion of Finland: November 1939 – March 1940
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Axis invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa): June–December 1941
- Defense of Brest Fortress: June 1941
- Battle of Białystok-Minsk: June 1941
- Operation Rentier
- Baltic Operation
- Battle of Raseiniai
- Battle of Brody (1941): June 1941
- Continuation War
- Operation Silver Fox
- Operation Platinum Fox
- Operation Arctic Fox: July–November 1941
- Operation EF: July 1941
- Battle of Smolensk (1941)
- Battle of Uman
- Pripyat Marshes massacres
- Siege of Odessa (1941)
- Battle of Kiev (1941)
- Bombing of Tallinn in World War II
- Evacuation of Tallinn (1941)
- Yelnya Offensive
- Battle of the Sea of Azov
- Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
- Battle of Bryansk (1941): October 1941
- Battle of the Crimea (1941)
- First Battle of Kharkov
- Battle at Borodino Field: October 1941 – January 1942
- Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)
- Battle of Rostov
- Battle of Moscow [1]
- Operation Uzice: September–November 1941
- Soviet Winter counter-offensive: December 1941 – May 1942
- Operation Kremlin
- Axis Summer offensive: June–November 1942
- Operation Uranus: November 1942
- Operation Mars: November–December 1942
- Operation Little Saturn: December 1942 – February 1943
- Operation Winter Storm: December 1942
- Battle for Velikiye Luki (1943)
- Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda
- Ostrogozhsk-Rossosh Operation
- Battle of Voronezh (1943)
- Third Battle of Kharkov
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Operation Citadel: [3] July–August 1943
- Battle of Smolensk (1943)
- Fourth Battle of Kharkov
- Białystok Ghetto Uprising: August 1943
- Battle of the Dnieper: August–December 1943
- Operation Concert: September 1943
- Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive: December 1943 – April 1944
- Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive
- Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket
- Battle of Narva (1944): February–August 1944
- Operation Margarethe
- Crimean Offensive (1944)
- Shyaulyay Offensive
- Battle of Someri
- Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive
- Operation Bagration: June–August 1944
- Battle of Tali-Ihantala
- Battle of the Bay of Viipuri: June–July 1944
- Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive
- Battle of Radzymin (1944)
- Warsaw Uprising
- Battle of Studzianki
- Operation Doppelkopf
- Romanian campaign: August–December 1944
- Slovak National Uprising
- Battle of the Dukla Pass
- Baltic Offensive
- Belgrade Offensive
- Operation Nordlicht (1944–1945)
- Battle of Debrecen
- Operation Panzerfaust
- Courland Pocket
- Gumbinnen Operation
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Budapest Offensive: October 1944 – February 1945
- Siege of Budapest: December 1944 – February 1945
- Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army: April 1944 – October 1945
- Vistula–Oder Offensive: January–February 1945
- East Prussian Offensive
- Defense of Schwedt Bridgehead
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Silesian Offensives
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Lower Silesian Offensive
- Siege of Breslau: February–May 1945
- Upper Silesian Offensive
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Lower Silesian Offensive
- Operation Solstice
- East Pomeranian Offensive
- Operation Spring Awakening
- Nagykanizsa–Körmend Offensive
- Vienna Offensive
- Samland Offensive
- Battle of Berlin: April–May 1945
- Battle of Bautzen (1945): April 1945
- Prague Offensive
- Battle of Odzak: 19 April – 25 May 1945
Indian Ocean
- Attack on Convoy BN 7: October 1940
- Action of 27 February 1941
- Action of 8 May 1941
- Japanese occupation of the Andaman Islands: 1942–1945
- Battle of Christmas Island: March–April 1942
- Indian Ocean raid: March–April 1942
- Easter Sunday Raid: April 1942
- Battle of Madagascar: May–November 1942
- Cocos Island Mutiny: May 1942
- Battle of La Réunion: November 1942
- Indian Ocean raid (1944): March 1944
Pacific Front
- Battles of Khalkhin Gol May–September 1939
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Japanese attacks on the U.S. or U.S. unincorporated territories
- Attack on Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941
- Battle of Guam (1941): December 1941
- Battle of Wake Island: December 1941
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Japanese occupation of Philippines: December 1941 – May 1942
- Japanese invasion of Batan Island, December 1941
- Japanese invasion of Vigan, December 1941
- Japanese invasion of Aparri, December 1941
- Japanese invasion of Legazpi, December 1941
- Japanese invasion of Davao, December 1941
- Japanese invasion of Lingayen Gulf, December 1941
- Japanese invasion of Lamon Bay, December 1941
- Battle of Bataan (1942), January–April 1942
- Battle of Corregidor: May 1942
- Battle of Dutch Harbor: June 1942
- Battle of Midway: June 1942
- Japanese occupation of Kiska: June 1942
- Japanese occupation of Attu: June 1942
- Japanese occupation of Hong Kong: December 1941
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Japanese occupation of Dutch East Indies: December 1941 – March 1942
- Battle of Borneo (1941–42)
- Battle of Manado (1942)
- Battle of Ambon (1942)
- Battle of Makassar Strait (1942)
- Battle of Palembang (1942)
- Battle of Badung Strait (1942)
- Battle of Timor (1942–43)
- Battle of the Java Sea (1942)
- Battle of Sunda Strait (1942)
- Battle of Java (1942)
- Second Battle of the Java Sea (1942)
- Japanese Invasion of Rabaul, January–February 1942
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Japanese attacks on Australia: February–June 1942
- Bombing of Darwin: February 1942
- Attack on Broome: March 1942
- Attack on Sydney Harbour: May–June 1942
- Raid on Darwin: May 1943
- Japanese Invasion of Salamaua-Lae, March 1942
- Japanese Invasion of Tulagi, May 1942
- Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942
- Battle of Midway, June 1942
- Japanese Invasion of Buna-Gona, July 1942
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Kokoda Track campaign, July–November 1942
- Battle of Kokoda
- Battle of Isurava, August 1942
- First Battle of Eora Creek – Templeton's Crossing, August–September 1942
- Battle of Mission Ridge – Brigade Hill,
- Battle of Ioribaiwa, September 1942
- Second Battle of Eora Creek – Templeton's Crossing, October 1942
- Battle of Oivi–Gorari, November 1942
- Battle of Milne Bay, August–September 1942
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Guadalcanal Campaign: August 1942 – February 1943
- Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo, August 1942
- Battle of Savo Island, August 1942
- Makin Island raid, August 1942
- Battle of the Tenaru: August 1942
- Battle of the Eastern Solomons, August 1942
- Battle of Edson's Ridge: September 1942
- Actions along the Matanikau: September–October 1942
- Battle of Cape Esperance, October 1942
- Battle for Henderson Field: October 1942
- Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942
- Matanikau Offensive: November 1942
- Koli Point action: November 1942
- Carlson's Patrol: November–December 1942
- Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. November 1942
- Battle of Tassafaronga, November 1942
- Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse: December 1942
- Battle of Rennell Island: January 1943
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New Guinea campaign: October 1942 – August 1945
- Battle of Goodenough Island, October 1942
- Battle of Buna–Gona, November 1942 – January 1943
- Battle of Wau, January 1943
- Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March 1943
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Salamaua–Lae campaign, April–September 1943
- Battle of Mubo, April–July 1943
- Battle of Bobdubi, April–August 1943
- Battle of Lababia Ridge, June 1943
- Landing at Nassau Bay, June–July 1943
- Battle of Roosevelt Ridge, July–August 1943
- Battle of Mount Tambu, July–August 1943
- Landing at Lae, September 1943
- Landing at Nadzab, September
- Finisterre Range campaign, September 1943 – April 1944
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Huon Peninsula campaign, September 1943 – March 1944
- Landing at Scarlet Beach, September–October 1943
- Battle of Finschhafen, September–October 1943
- Battle of Sattelberg, November 1943
- Battle of Wareo, November–December 1943
- Landing on Long Island, December 1943
- Battle of Sio, December 1943 – March 1944
- Landing at Saidor, January–February 1944
- Battle of Madang, February–April 1944
- Bougainville Campaign, November 1943 – August 1945
- New Britain campaign, December 1943 – August 1945
- Battle of Cape Gloucester: December 1943 – April 1944
- Admiralty Islands campaign, February–May 1944
- Western New Guinea campaign, April 1944 – August 1945
- Aitape–Wewak campaign, November 1944 – August 1945
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Aleutian Islands Campaign, March–August 1943
- Battle of the Komandorski Islands: March 1943
- Battle of Attu: May 1943
- Operation Vengeance: April 1943
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Solomon Islands Campaign, June–November 1943
- New Georgia Campaign, June–August 1943
- Battle of Kula Gulf: July 1943
- Battle of Kolombangara: July 1943
- Battle of Vella Gulf: August 1943
- Land Battle of Vella Lavella: August–October 1943
- Naval Battle of Vella Lavella: October 1943
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay: November 1943
- Battle of Cape St. George: November 1943
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Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, November 1943 – February 1944
- Battle of Tarawa, November 1943
- Battle of Kwajalein, February 1944
- Battle of Eniwetok, February 1944
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Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, June–November 1944
- Battle of Saipan, June 1944
- Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944
- Battle of Guam (1944), July–August 1944
- Battle of Tinian, July–August 1944
- Battle of Peleliu, September–November 1944
- Battle of Angaur, September–October 1944
- Battle of Noemfoor: July–August 1944
- Battle of Morotai: September–October 1944
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Philippines Campaign (1944–45): October 1944 – September 1945
- Battle of Leyte: October–December 1944
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Battle of Leyte Gulf: October 1944
- Battle off Samar: 25 October 1944
- Battle of Ormoc Bay: November–December 1944
- Battle of Luzon: January–August 1945
- Battle of Manila (1945): February–March 1945
- Battle of Bacsil Ridge: March 1945
- Battle of Mindanao: March–Aug 1945
- Battle for Cebu City: March–Apr 1945
- Battle of Iwo Jima: February–March 1945
- Battle of Okinawa: April–June 1945
- Battle of Balikpapan (1945): July 1945
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: August 1945
- Soviet invasion of Manchuria August 1945
- Kyūjō incident
China Front
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1931–1945 Sino-Japanese War (September 1931 – September 1945)
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria September 1931 – February 1932
- Mukden Incident September 1931
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Jiangqiao campaign November 1931
- Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge November 1931
- Jinzhou Operation December 1931 – January 1932
- Defense of Harbin January 1932 – February 1932
- January 28 incident January–March 1932
- Pacification of Manchukuo November 1931 – February 1942
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Inner Mongolian campaign April 1933 – December 1936
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Defense of the Great Wall February–March 1933
- Battle of Rehe February–March 1933
- Suiyuan campaign October–November 1936
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Defense of the Great Wall February–March 1933
- Marco Polo Bridge Incident July 1937
- Battle of Beiping–Tianjin July–August 1937
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Battle of Shanghai August 1937
- Defense of Sihang Warehouse October 26, 1937
- Beiping–Hankou Railway Operation August 1937
- Tianjin–Pukou Railway Operation August 1937
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Battle of Taiyuan September 1937
- Battle of Pingxingguan September 1937
- Battle of Xinkou September 1937
- Battle of Nanjing December 1937
- Battle of Xuzhou December 1937
- Bombing of Chongqing February 1938 – August 1943
- Taihoku Air Strike February 1938
- Battle of Taierzhuang March 1938
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Northern and Eastern Honan 1938 January 1938
- Battle of Lanfeng May 1938
- Amoy Operation May 1938
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Battle of Wuhan June 1938
- Battle of Wanjialing August 1938
- Canton Operation October 1938
- Hainan Island Operation February 1939
- Battle of Nanchang March 1939
- Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang May 1939
- Swatow Operation June 1939
- First Battle of Changsha September–October 1939
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Battle of South Guangxi November 1939
- Battle of Kunlun Pass December 1939
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1939–1940 Winter Offensive November 1939
- Battle of West Suiyuan January–February 1940
- Battle of Wuyuan March 1940
- Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang May 1940
- Hundred Regiments Offensive August 1940
- Central Hupei Operation November 1940
- Battle of South Henan January 1941
- New Fourth Army Incident January 1941
- Western Hopei Operation March 1941
- Battle of Shanggao March 1941
- Battle of South Shanxi May 1941
- Second Battle of Changsha September–October 1941
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria September 1931 – February 1932
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Third Battle of Changsha December 1941 – January 1942
- Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi May–September 1942
- Battle of West Hubei May–June 1943
- Linnan Campaign August 1943
- Battle of Changde November–December 1943
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Operation Ichi-Go April–December 1944
- Battle of Central Henan April 1944
- Fourth Battle of Changsha May–June 1944
- Defense of Hengyang June–August 1944
- Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou August–November 1944
- Battle of Mount Song June–September 1944
- Battle of West Henan–North Hubei March 1945 — May 1945
- Battle of West Hunan April 1945 – June 1945
- Second Guangxi Campaign April–August 1945
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Soviet invasion of Manchuria August 1945
- Battle of Mutanchiang August 1945
Southeast Asia Front
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Japanese invasion of French Indochina: September 1940
- Battle of Lạng Sơn: September 1940
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Thailand invasion of Laos, Cambodia and French Indochina : October 1940 – May 1941
- Battle of Ko Chang: January 1941
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Japanese invasion of Thailand: December 1941
- Battle of Prachuap Khiri Khan: December 1941
- Japanese-Thai occupation of Malaya: December 1941 – January 1942
- Bombing of Bangkok: 1942–1945
- Japanese occupation of Singapore: February 1942
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Burma Campaign
- Japanese-Thai occupation of Burma: January–May 1942
- Burma Campaign 1942–43
- Burma Campaign 1944
- Japanese invasion of India: March–June 1944
- Burma Campaign 1944–1945
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Allies bombing of South-East Asia: 1944–1945
- Operation Matterhorn: 1944
- Battle of the Malacca Strait: May 1945
- Operation Tiderace: September 1945
