Color Coding
Allied Victories: Red
Axis Victories: Yellow

Battles of Narvik - 9 April to 8 June 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Narvik)
Wikipedia Commons / Public Domain

Battle for The Hague - 10 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_the_Hague)
Wikipedia Commons

Battle of Maastricht - 10 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Maastricht)
Wikipedia Commons / Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1990-102-34A / CC-BY-SA

Battle of Fort Eben-Emael - 10 May 1940 – 11 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Eben-Emael)
Wikipedia Commons

Battle of Rotterdam - 10–14 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rotterdam)
Wikipedia Commons

Battle of Zeeland - 10-18 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zeeland)

Battle of the Grebbeberg - 11-13 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Grebbeberg)
Wikipdia Commons /  Niels Bosboom

Battle of the Afsluitdijk - 12-14 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_The_Afsluitdijk)

Battle of Hannut - 12-14 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hannut)

Battle of Gembloux - 14–15 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gembloux_(1940)
Wikipedia Commons / Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-127-0396-13A / Huschke / CC-BY-SA

Battle of Sedan - 12-15 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sedan_(1940)

Battle of Saumur - 18–20 June 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saumur_(1940)

Battle of Arras - 21 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arras_(1940)

Siege of Calais - 22 May–26 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Calais_(1940)

Battle of Dunkirk - 26 May – 4 June 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dunkirk)

Siege of Lille - 28 - 31 May 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Lille_(1940)

Operation Paula - 3 June 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paula)

The Hardest Day - 18 August 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Day)

The Blitz - 7 September 1940 - 16 May 1941
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz)

Battle of Britain Day - 15 September 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain_Day)

Battle of Graveney Marsh - 27 September 1940
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Graveney_Marsh)

Operation Cerberus (Channel Dash) - 11 February – 13 February 1942
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cerberus)

Operation Donnerkeil - 11 February—12 February 1942
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Donnerkeil)

St Nazaire Raid - 28 March 1942
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nazaire_Raid)

Dieppe Raid - 19 August 1942
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid)

Battle of Berlin - 8 November 1943 – 31 March 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin_(air)
Wikipedia Commons / Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1985-1108-514 / Herbst / CC-BY-SA

Operation Overlord (D-Day) - 6 June – 25 August 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord)

Battle for Caen - 6 June–6 August 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Caen)

Battle of Cherbourg - 6–30 June 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cherbourg)

Operation Perch - 7 – 14 June 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Perch)

Battle of Carentan - 10–14 June 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carentan)
Wikipedia Commons / Public Domain

Battle of Villers-Bocage - 13 June 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Villers-Bocage)

Battle of Bloody Gulch - 13 June 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bloody_Gulch)

Operation Epsom - 26–30 June 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Epsom)

Operation Windsor - 4–5 July 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Windsor)

Operation Charnwood - 8–9 July 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Charnwood)

Operation Jupiter - 10–11 July 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jupiter_(1944)

Second Battle of the Odon - 15 July 1944
Wikipedia
Wikipedia Commons / Public Domain

Operation Goodwood - 18–20 July 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Goodwood)

Operation Atlantic - 18–20 July 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Atlantic)

Battle of Verrières Ridge - 19–25 July 1944

Operation Spring - 25–27 July 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spring)

Operation Cobra - 25–31 July 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cobra)

Operation Lüttich - 7–13 August 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_L%C3%BCttich)

Operation Totalize - 8–13 August 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Totalize)

Operation Tractable - 14–21 August 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tractable)

Hill 262 (Mont Ormel Ridge) - 19–21 August 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_262)

Falaise Pocket - 12–21 August 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falaise_pocket)

Estry, Villers-Bocage, and Vire - 2 August 1944
StoneBooks WWII Diary (http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440802/)

Fougères - 3 August 1944
Stone & Stone Books WWII Diary (http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440803/)

Friedrichshafen - 3 August 1944
Stone & Stone Books - WWII Diary (http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440803/)
US 15th Air Force bombers attack Friedrichshafen

Immenstadt bombing - 3 August 1944
Stone & Stone Books - WWII Diary (http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440803/)
US 15th Air Force bombers attack Immenstadt

Saarbrucken bombing - 3 August 1944
Stone & Stone Books - WWII Diary (http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440803/)
US 8th Air Force attacks targets at and near Saarbrucken with 62 bombers.

Thury-Harcourt -5 August 1944
Stone & Stone Books: WWII Diary (http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440805/)

Hanover bombing - 5 August 1944
US 8th Air Force attacks targets around Hannover,

Magdeburg bombing - 5 August 1944
US 8th Air Force attacks targets around Magdeburg

Braunschweig bombing - 5 August 1944
US 8th Air Force attacks targets around Brunswick

Castrop-Rauxel bombing - 6 August
RAF Bomber Command sends 40 aircraft to attack Castrop-Rauxel

Hamburg bombing - 6 August 1944
US 8th Air Force attacks targets around Hamburg

Battle for Brest - 7 August 1944 – 19 September 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Brest)

Cologne bombing - 8 August 1944
RAF Bomber Command sends 34 aircraft to attack Cologne overnight

Rüsselsheim bombing - 12 August 1944
RAF Bomber Command sends 297 aircraft to attack Russelsheim overnight

Kiel bombing - 12 August 1944
RAF Bomber Command sends 12 aircraft to attack Kiel overnight

Operation Romeo - 15 August 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Romeo)

15 August 1944, The German-looted French art train "Le Train" crashes in WWII battlefield only days before Allied troops arrive.
How did both the German army and the French army recover artwork from the German-looted "Le Train" art train as was reported, and Rose Valland of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume get credit for saving the art? Was the derailed train unloaded by the Germans near Moselle as the Allied forces approached, abandoning part of the load to the French army?
The war effort was claimed to have been halted here due to a lack of supplies, but could it really have been because billions in art were being looted by both sides of the war near this location? How did much of the art arrive at Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany and other art find its way either back in Paris or on the black market?
See the Google Map "Le Train: The Rescuing of the German-Looted French Art Train (1944) Fact vs. Fiction."

Battle of Port Cros - 15 August 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Port_Cros)

Battle of La Ciotat - 17 August 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_La_Ciotat)
Wikipedia Commons / Public Domaini

Mannheim bombing - 17 August 1944
Stone & Stone Books - WWII Diary (http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440817/)                                                                                                                                                               RAF Bomber Command sends 37 aircraft to attack Mannheim overnight

Louviers - 21 August 1944
Stone & Stone Books: WWII Diary (http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440821/)

Bremen bombing - 21 August 1944
RAF Bomber Command sends 288 aircraft to attack Bremen overnight

Paris - 24 August 1944
Stone & Stone Books: WWII Diary (http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440824/)

Operation Astonia - 25 August 1944 - 7 March 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Astonia)

Château-Thierry - 26 August 1944

Le Bourget Airfield - 27 August 1944

Soissons - 28 August 1944

Reims - 28 August 1944

Châlons-en-Champagne - 29 August 1944

Vitry-le-Francois - 29 August 1944

Compiègne - 30 August 1944
Stone & Stone Book: WWII Diary (http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440830/)

Nîmes - 30 August 1944

Montipelier - 30 August 1944

Laon - 30 August 1944
Stone & Stone Book: WWII Diary (http://books.stonebooks.com/wardiary/19440830/)

Rouen - 30 August 1944

Forges - 31 August 1944

Amiens - 31 August 1944

Buchy - 31 August 1944

Dieppe - 31 August 1944

Briançon - 31 August 1944

Forêt Domaniale d'Arques - 31 August 1944

Verdun - 1 September 1944

Commercy - 1 September 1944

Tournai - 2 September 1944

Hirson - 2 September 1944

Saint-Quentin - 2 September 1944

Lyon - 2 September 1944

Maubeuge - 2 September 1944

Mons - 2 September 1944

Charleroi - 2 September 1944

Battle of Nancy - 5-15 September 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nancy_(1944))

Liege - 7 September 1944

Besançon - 7 September 1944

Battle of Moerbrugge - 8 September 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moerbrugge)

Dijon - 10 September 1944

Langres - 12 September 1944

Belfort - 14 September 1944
Stone & Stone Books: WWII Diary

Zeebrugge - 11 September 1944

Operation Wellhit - 17 – 22 September 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wellhit)

Boulogne-sur-Mer - 17 September 1944

Operation Market Garden - 17–25 September 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden)

Battle of Arnhem - 17–26 September 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arnhem)

Eindhoven - 18 September 1944

Battle of Arracourt - 18–29 September 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arracourt)

Battle of Hürtgen Forest - 19 September 1944 - February 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_H%C3%BCrtgen_Forest)

Operation Undergo - 22 September–1 October 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Undergo)
Wikipedia Commons / Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1986-104-10A / Maier / CC-BY-SA

Battle of Metz - 27 September – 13 December 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Metz)

Battle of Overloon - 30 September–18 October 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Overloon)

Battle of Aachen - 2–21 October 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aachen)

Hill 400, Bergstein - 7 December 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_400,_Bergstein)

Battle of the Scheldt - 2 October-8 November 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Scheldt)

Battle of Crucifix Hill - 8 October 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crucifix_Hill)

Stalling of the Allied Advance / Winter of 1944
Advancement of Allied forces stalled by a lack of fuel and supplies.

Operation Clipper - 10 November 1944-31 January 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Clipper)

Operation Queen - 16 November – 16 December 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Queen)

Battle of the Bulge - 16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge)

Battle of Kesternich - 14 – 16 December 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kesternich

Battle of Lanzerath Ridge - 16–17 December 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lanzerath_Ridge)

Losheim Gap - 16 December 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losheim_Gap)

Battle of St. Vith - 16–21 December 1944 (first battle)
Wikipedia

Battle of Clervaux - 16 December 1944 – 18 December 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Clervaux)
Wikipedia Commons /  Joachim Köhler

Elsenborn Ridge - 16 – 26 December 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsenborn_Ridge)

Operation Stösser - 17 December 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_St%C3%B6sser)

Siege of Bastogne - 20–27 December 1944
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Bastogne)

Operation Bodenplatte - 1 January 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bodenplatte)

Operation Nordwind - 1 January 1945 – 25 January 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nordwind)

Operation Blackcock - 14 – 27 January 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blackcock)

Colmar Pocket - 20 January 1945 - 9 February 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colmar_Pocket)

Operation Veritable - 8 February – 11 March 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Veritable)

Operation Grenade - 9- 23 February 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Grenade)

Operation Lumberjack - 1–7 March 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Lumberjack)

The Bridge at Remagen - 7-8 March 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remagen_Bridge)
Wikipedia / Public Domain

Oppenheim - 22/23 March 1945
Wikipedia

Operation Plunder - 24 March 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plunder)

Operation Varsity - 24 March 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Varsity)

Operation Undertone - 15 - 24 March 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Undertone)
Wikipedia Commons / W._B._Wilson

Operation Amherst - 7 April 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Amherst)

Battle of Kassel - 1–4 April 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kassel_(1945)

Battle of Heilbronn - 4–12 April 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Heilbronn_(1945)

Ruhr Pocket - 7 March to 21 April 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr_Pocket)

Coburg, Germany - 11 April 1945

Battle of Groningen - 14–18 April 1945
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Groningen)

Bayreuth, Germany - 17 April 1945

Hamburg - 19 April 1945

Nuremberg - 20 April 1945

U.S. First Army makes first contact with the advancing Russians - 25 April 1945

Munich - April 30, 1945

Berchtesgaden - 4 May 1945

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Siege of Dunkirk  - 15 September 1944 – 8 May 1945