World War II battles?

Question

Did Germany, Italy or Japan win a SINGLE major battle against the Allied forces during World War II. Most of the battles I see took place in between 1940-45 were won by the allies, all of them.

Answer 1

The largest encircling movement in military history took place in the summer of 1941 at Minsk and Smolensk, where nearly 750,000 Soviets were taken prisoner.

At the 3rd Battle of Kharkov in 1943, the II SS Panzer Corps defeated a Red Army 7 times its size.

The Battle of France was won in 4 weeks.

Tobruk was conquered in June 1942, earning Rommel his Field Marshall baton.

I'm sure there were many other smaller battles.

Answer 2

Germany won a lot of battles. They conquered Poland, Norway, the low Countries, France, Yugolslavia and Greece then Crete. In Russia they initialy defeated everything the Russians could throw at them and at the same time Rommel was winning many victories against larger British forces in North Africa. When the tide turned Germany was facing too many enemies on too many fronts and eventually it was enivatable that they could not match the allies in numbers of men and resources. After the war had turned they still won some victories such as at Kasserine against the Americans and at Arnhem against the British.
The Italians on the other hand were a different matter. Apart from one temporay success against Britain in east Africa they lost every battle they fought even when they outnumbered their opponents. The Germans viewed them as more of a liability than an asset as the Germans had to divert men away from other sectors to bail them out first in Yugoslavia/ Greece then in North Africa
Japan initially won some great victories such as against Britain at Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore and aginst the Americans in the Phillipines. Like the Germans they could not match the allies in terms of resources and once the allies had got their act together in prosecuting the war it was only a matter of time before they were completely defeated
For the question you are asking about the Axis powers ever winning a single battle, the answer is yes, they won many but enevitably they lost the war

Answer 3

The Axis won plenty of battles, particularly in the start of the war. I'll list one or two for Japan and Germany.

In 1937-1938, Japan conquered the entire coastal region of China in one year. The Chinese troops offered little resistance.

In 1940, Germany conquered France in one month. France was considered a foremost military power at the time. At Dunkirk, British and French troops fled for Britain in great numbers.

In 1941, Japan wiped out almost every single American, British, Dutch, and Australian base in the entire Central and South Pacific regions. Pearl Harbor, Kuantan, and Java Sea were all battles where Japan won big time.

Answer 4

Yes, the axis won several major battles in WW2

In the early years of the war, Germany inflicted many defeats on armies many thought of as superior. After Poland, they turned allied intervention in Norway into a debacle, severly mauling the Royal Navy, and defeated France and the Low Countries in a matter of weeks.

In Africa, german troops managed to reverse the gains made by the British 8th Army against the Italian and halt thier drive into Libya. The conquest of Yugoslavia and Greece was also accomplished in dramatically short time, with the sucessful airbourne invasion of Crete coming a few short weeks after the fall of Athens.

even in the middle to late period of war, Allied commanders were ooften astonished by the germans ability to rebound and they suffered many tactical defeats at the hands of a retreating enemy, for example

Kasserine: US and British forces were almost routed by Rommels counter attack, even after driving him back several hundred miles from Egypt to Tunisia.

Kharkov: after the disaster of Stalingrad, Mannstein rebounded to retake Kahrkov for the 3rd time and inflicted huge losses on the red army

Market-Garden: a german army that had suffered crippling losses during the Normandy Campaign, no more than a month before, defeated a major allied airboure assault on the rhine crossings.

The Japanease also defeated allied forces in the pacific, by no means a small task. The defeat of Singapore, the Phillapeans and the destruction of most of the royal navy's pacific fleet ( the third largest in the pacific) occured almost simulateously, and in the invsion of Indoneasia they effectively destroyed a joint Dutch, British and American force (both naval and ground) that was much larger than ther own.

Answer 5

French campaign. Germany 1 - GB and France 0
Crete
Initial stages of Barbarossa. The only thing that beat the Germans was the snow. This gave the Russians the chance to bring in its winter fighting troops + T34.
North Africa - Initial German Sucess under Romell.
On Sea, the Bizmark wone its first engagement.

The Japanese had considerable victories in Burhma. Also, they did win Pearl Harbour, not to mention enjoying a great deal of sucess directly after (Wake Atol being an example). Also, all of those British POWs came from somewhere. In fact, the Japanese inflicted the greatest historical defeat on the British army.

What history books are you reading?

Luck

Answer 6

Unfortunately yes: The battle over Poland, Denmark, Norway, Benelux, Dunkirk, Northern France Tore, south eastern France, the first battle in the Libyan Egyptian border, some of the battles in Tubruck, Yugoslavia, mainland Greece, Crete, The attack on the Soviet air force Lvov, Briansk, Kiev and so on.

Answer 7

axis forces regularly one battles.....arnham was a major disaster for the allies. unfortunately hollywood mainly picked the allied victories.

Answer 8

The axis powers won battles all the time. Off the top of my head, Stalingrad and Kursk.

Answer 9

The victors always write history