Battles

Battles, campaigns and important basic decisions of WW2.

At this page, various interesting strategic decisions, campaigns and individual battles are investigated more closely, which had a more or less great influence on the course of WW2.

Tobruk harbour
The siege of Tobruk from April to December 1941. Tobruk Tobruk is a tiny but significant harbor on the coastline Read more
US Marines before Naha, Okinawa
Battle of Okinawa 1945: The Decisive Pacific Campaign That Shaped WWII's Final Months The Battle of Okinawa began on April Read more
captured bridge of Remagen
The Capture of the Remagen Bridge on 7 March 1945: A Pivotal WW2 Event. In the closing months of World Read more
Operation Torch fleet
Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa. On November 8, 1942, a force of over 70,000 Allied troops invaded Read more
Flag rising Mt. Suribachi
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945: An extraordinary battle between Japan and the US Marines in the Pacific War. Battle of Read more
Outbreak of British infantry from Tobruk
From August 1941 until the end of the Siege of Tobruk in December 1941 (Part III). Australians withdrawn and replaced Read more
Soldiers of the 69th US Division and the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front
Second World War, overview of the course from 1943 to 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers by the Read more
Sherman tanks with infantry advance from Lingayen Gulf
The US Invasion of Lingayen Gulf on 9 January 1945 and the Liberation of the Philippines: A Turning Point in Read more
Altmark
Operation Weser Crossing (Unternehmen Weserübung), the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940. Operation Weserübung Operation Weserübung (Weser Read more
King Tiger tank with infantry at the Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge 1944: Hitler's last trump card. German Ardennes offensive 1944 In December 1944, the Ardennes region of Read more
Hitler declares war on USA
Hitler's declaration of war to the United States appears to be difficult to understand, superfluous, and sealed the fate of Read more
German infantry, armed with 98K rifles as well as grenade throwers
Could had Operation Barbarossa - Hitler's attack on Soviet Russia - a different course and why was the invasion carried Read more
pilots were running to their Spitfires
The Battle of Britain in 1940-1941. Operation Sea lion, strengths of the German Navy and Luftwaffe vs RAF, the air Read more
Air war in the Pacific
The Air War in the Pacific During World War II and the Japanese Flying Ace Saburo Sakai. Air war in Read more
Polish PoW's 1939
The Polish campaign from the Battle of Bzura, the invasion of the Red Army to the surrender of Warsaw and Read more
column of German Panzer III, crowded with infantrymen
The Second and Third Soviet Counteroffensive in the Winter of 1941-42, and the Orders of Battle of the Wehrmacht of Read more
Battleship Pennsylvania
US Invasion of Leyte and the Naval Battle in the Leyte Gulf in 1944: A Turning Point in the Pacific Read more
Normandy D-DayTours
Visit one of the most important sites in world history to experience its rich heritage and beauty. See the D-day Read more
Ribbentrop announces Russian war
Why Hitler attacked Russia ? (Part I) Looking on the subsequent events appearing after Hitler's decision to attack Russia, it Read more
German troops near Arnheim
Operation Market Garden and the Battle of Arnhem 1944: Allied Airborne Assault in the Netherlands. Operation Market Garden and the Read more

Attack of German infantry
Attack of German infantry during the Blitzkrieg campaigns.
In so doing, less emphasis is placed on the number of battles or even on the complete treatment of all campaigns and strategic decisions, but on the essential and important operations for an important time interval of the WW2 War Diary or the armies‘ organization. The main focus here is on the units deployed in these battles and campaigns, and their strength, equipment and armament.

Additional, a large space is given to the strategic decisions of the principle – and here, above all (except maybe Joseph Stalin), the notorious individual decisions of the German Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, who dominate everything. Hitler so decisively influence the course of the war as no other of the participating decision-makers.

Although Hitler had all options in his hands until the summer of 1941, his decisions resulted in the creation of the campaigns and battles, but the booklet of the trade was then torn from his hands of the Allies. However, all subsequent events, which were mostly triggered by the Allies, were still the product of Hitler’s strategy.

Especially for the development of war games as exact simulations are questions of the possible historical options and the ‘what if?’ necessary, besides the exact assessment of the fighting power of the involved armed forces and weapons for the calculation of alternative and fictional battles, if players or an artificial intelligence (AI) as ‘Supreme Commander’ takes other decisions than actually happened during WW2.

WW2 Weapons
Scroll to Top
Conflict of Nations - World War III