Just curious

Pretty sure the boys in the Pacfic had the longest battles. I mean, fighting in the Phillipines raged from '41 thru '45.

I am thinking you mean more individual than campaign..

Like the battle of the bulge? dunno if thats longest though

Yes individual

I believe from what I have read is that the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest battle is WW2.

How long was it?

The battle of the Atlantic was really a campaign to rid the Atlantic waters of German U-Boats. The longest single battle, Id say would have to be the siege of Leningrad. Constant, unending fighting for over 100 days, I believe.

And operation Market garden?

Yeah but the longest battle that i thought was probably the battle of Foy.....well no nevermind not that but Carentan was a long battle too. Well i have to agree with EasyRed506 because they dide have the long, long battles.

Yeah but the longest battle that i thought was probably the battle of Foy.....well no nevermind not that but Carentan was a long battle too. Well i have to agree with EasyRed506 because they dide have the long, long battles.

longest thats easy

ENGLAND Vs GERMANY 1939 - 1946

its 1945* and i mean not a campaign , an individual battle. If it is a campaign i guess the longest one is the japan fighting against china 1937-1945

Many historians consider the Battle for the Atlantic the longest single action of the war. While not fast or glorious every ship in the North Atlantic was on combat patrol with no stand down until in port. I don't know if I consider that a single battle or a campaign broken into individual battles becasue I can see arguments for either side of the coin.

The battle for Stalingrad ran from early September 1942 until Feb 2, 1943; 5 months of constant fighting with between 1 and 2 million casualties. While perhaps not the longest, it certainly was one of the longest and bloodiest battles in history.

I'd have to give Leningrad the tops for longest single action. The Siege of Leningrad lasted from September 8, 1941, to January 18, 1944. It was roughly 870 days long but they call the seige the 900 day seige. After day 850 passed you might as well round it up to 900.

Woah thanks for sharing

the battle of Stalingrad, seriously, was a big "bloodbath". I think about 250.000 dead german soldiers or was it "250.000 casualties"?

i think thats total dead altho i know the russians lost about double the men germany did

You can say that. When the Russians wanted to retake a hill in Stalingrad, they lost a hole division in 1 day (that's about 10,000 men). But that's Russia, attack was the spirit.

Only if you see it over one day but there were campaings who have taken longer then this one
like the battle of the bulge it has taken 3 months to take over the Ardens

i strongly disagree with the russians tactics altho they worked there had to be another way then throwing wave after wave at the germans

stalingrad's final tally was 800,000 dead Germany, 900,000 dead Russia. I don't know of any numbers for the Rumanians (but they weren't actually in stalingrad anyway). It's possible that those numbers are casualties instead, but I seem to remember hearing them called deaths.