world war 2

atlantic

Sep 3, 1939

allies leaders: Martin E. Nasmith (1939-41), Sir Percy Noble (1941–42), Sir Max K. Horton (1943–45), Frederick Bowhill (1939-41), Philip de la Ferté (1941-43, Sir John Slessor (1943-45) ,Leonard W. Murray, Ernest J. King, Royal E. Ingersoll
central leaders: Erich Raeder, Karl Dönit, Hermann Görin
allies victory
casualities
allies: 36,200 sailors killed[1][2]
36,000 merchant seamen killed[1][2]
3,500 merchant vessels
175 warships
central: 30,000 sailors killed[3]
783 submarines

battle of Britain

Jul 10, 1940

Britain leaders: Hugh Dowding,Keith Park,Trafford Leigh-Mallory,CJ Quintin Brand,Richard Saul
Nazi leaders: Hermann Göring,Albert Kesselring, Hugo Sperrle
Hans-Jürgen Stumpff
Italian leader: Rino Corso Fougier
The English won
Casualties and losses
English:
544 aircrew killed[8][9][10]
422 aircrew wounded[11]
1,547 aircraft destroyed[nb 8]
Nazi and Italian
2,698 aircrew killed[12]
967 captured
638 missing bodies identified by British authorities[13]
1,887 aircraft destroyed

world war 2 allies victories

Period: Jul 10, 1940 to Feb 19, 1945

singapore

Jul 31, 1941

allies leaders: Arthur Percival (POW) ,Gordon Bennett,Lewis Heath (POW,)Merton Beckwith
central leaders: Tomoyuki Yamashita,Takuma Nishimura[1],Takuro Matsui,Renya Mutaguchi
allies victory
casualities:
allies: 85,000
5,000 killed or wounded
80,000 captured
central: 4,485
1,713 killed
2,772 wounded

moscow

Oct 2, 1941

russian leaders: Joseph Stalin,Georgy Zhukov,Aleksandr Vasilevsky
german leaders: Adolf Hitler,Fedor von Bock,Heinz Guderian,Albert Kesselring
russian victory
casualities
allies: 500,000–1,280,000
german: 280,000–750,000

pearl harbor

Dec 7, 1941

u.s leaders: Husband Kimmel,Walter Short
Japanese leaders:Chuichi Nagumo,Isoroku Yamamoto
Allies victory
casualities:
u.s:
4 battleships sunk
3 battleships damaged
1 battleship grounded
2 other ships sunk[nb 2]
3 cruisers damaged[nb 3]
3 destroyers damaged
3 other ships damaged
188 aircraft destroyed
159[3] aircraft damaged
2,402 killed
1,247 wounded[4][5]
Japan:
4 midget submarines sunk
1 midget submarine grounded
29 aircraft destroyed
64 killed

midway

Jun 3, 1942

U.S leaders:Chester W. Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, Raymond A.
Japanese leaders: Isoroku Yamamoto,Nobutake Kondō,Chūichi Nagumo,Tamon Yamaguchi , Yanagimoto
The U.S won
casualities:
U.S: 1 carrier sunk
1 destroyer sunk
~150 aircraft destroyed
307 killed
Japan:
4 carriers sunk
1 cruiser sunk
248 carrier aircraft destroyed[3]
3,057 killed[4]

alamein

Jul 1, 1942

allies leaders: Claude Auchinleck,Dorman Smith
central leaders:Erwin Rommer, Enea Navarini
allies victory
casualities
allies:13,250 casualties
centrai: German: 10,000 casualties[4]
Italian: unknown

stalingrad

Aug 21, 1942

allies leaders: Joseph Stalin,Georgy Zhukov,Nikolay Voronov,A.M. Vasilevsky,Andrei Yeremenk, Nikita Khrushchev,K.K. Rokossovsky,Nikolai Vatutin,Vasily Chuikov
central leaders: Adolf Hitler,Erich von Manstei, Friedrich Paulus , Hermann Hoth,Wolfram von Richthofen,Petre Dumitrescu,C. Constantinescu,Italo Gariboldi, Gusztáv Vitéz Jány,Viktor Pavičić
russian victory
casualities:
allies:
est. 850,000 killed, missing or wounded
central: Approx. 1,150,000 killed, missing or wounded

guadalcanal

Aug 22, 1942

U.S leaders: Robert L. Ghormley,William Halsey, Jr, Richmond K. Turner, Alexander A. Vandegrift, Alexander Patch
japan leaders: Isoroku Yamamoto, Nishizo Tsukahara, Jinichi Kusak, Hitoshi Imamura,Harukichi Hyakutake
U.S victory
casualities:
U.S: 7,100 dead
4 captured
29 ships lost
615 aircraft lost
Japan: 31,000 dead
1,000 captured
38 ships lost
683–880 aircraft lost

milne bay

Aug 25, 1942

australian leaders: Cyril Clowes
central leaders: Gunichi Mikaw, Masajiro Hayashi,Minoru Yano
austrialia victory
casulities
allies: 167 killed or missing
206 wounded[3]
United States:
14 kille
central:
625 killed[4]
311 wounded

kursk

Jul 5, 1943

germany leaders: Erich von Manstein, Günther von Kluge, Hermann Hoth,Walther Model,Hans Seidemann,Robert Ritter von
russians leaders: Georgy Zhukov.Konstantin Rokossovsky,Nikolay Vatutin,Aleksandr Vasilevsky,Ivan Konev
russian victory
casualities:
russia: 863,303 casualties[nb 8]
6,064 tanks and assault guns[nb 9]
1,626[19] aircraft
5,244 guns[19] germany: 203,000[13]-500,000[14] casualties
760[15]-1,61

D-day

Jun 6, 1944

u.s leaders: Dwight D. Elsenhover, Omar Bradley
english leader: Trafford Leigh-Mallory,Arthur Tedder,Miles Dempsey, Bertram Ramsay, Bernard
germany leader: Gerd von Rundstedt,Erwin Rommel,Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Friedrich Dollmann, Hans von Salmuth
Wilhelm Falley
Allies victory
casualities
allies: At least ~12,000 overall casualties.[note 2]
germany: Estimated between 4,000 and 9,000 casualties.[

phillipine sea

Jun 19, 1944

us leaders: Raymond A. Spruance,Marc A. Mitscher
japan leaders: Jisaburō Ozawa,Kakuji Kakuta
U.S victory
casualities
allies: 1 battleship damaged,123 aircraft destroyed
central: 3 fleet carriers sunk
2 oilers sunk
550–645 aircraft destroyed[1]
6 other ships damaged

iwo juma

Feb 19, 1945

allies leaders: Holland Smith, Marc Mitscher, Alexander Vandegrift, Graves B. Erskine, Clifton Cates, Keller E. Rockey,Chester W. Nimitz,Raymond A. Spruance
central leaders: Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Takeichi Nishi
allies victory
casualities
allies: 6,821 killed
2 captured but recovered[2]
19,217 wounded[1]
central: 21,844 killed[1]
216 taken prisoner

okinawa

Apr 1, 1945

allies leaders: Simon B. Buckner ,Roy Geiger,Joseph Stilwell,Chester W. Nimita, Raymond A. Spruance, Philip Vian,Bruce Fraser
central leaders: Mitsuru Ushijima, Isamu Chō , Minoru Ota,Keizō Komura
victory of allies
casualities
allies: 12,513 killed
38,916 wounded,
33,096 non-combat losses
Total: 84,570
central: About 95,000+ killed
7,400–10,755 captured
Total: 105,755

VE day

May 8, 1945

mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe

vj day

Aug 15, 1945

effectively ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred, officially endin