The goal of this chapter is to collect the information on all battles in WWII from Wikipedia. A corresponding list is provided: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_battles. As you can see, it contains links to a large set of pages, one for each battle, operation, and campaign. Furthermore, the list is structured, so battles are grouped according to the campaign or operation, which are, in turn, grouped by the theaters – it would be great to preserve this hierarchy! Most elements of the list also have a date. We'll work with those lists in a minute.
Now, if you check a couple of pages for specific battles, you may notice that they have a similar structure. For most of them, the large information card on the right has a set of similar subsections, including the main section with dates, locations, and outcomes, and a few additional...