Adriatic campaign of World War II

Adriatic campaign
Part of Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre of the Second World War
Adriatic Sea in 1941, during the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia
Date 7 April 1939 – 15 May 1945 (6 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day) Location Adriatic Sea: Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Albania Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Allies:  United Kingdom  India  Yugoslavia (in 1941) Yugoslav Partisans (from 1941)  Greece  Free France Albanian partisans Italy (from 8 September 1943)  Australia  New Zealand  South Africa Poland  Canada	Axis:  Italy (until 8 September 1943)  Germany  Italian Social Republic (from September 1943)  Croatia Slovene collaborationists Montenegro  Albania (until 1944)
Commanders and leaders
Harold Alexander Claude Auchinleck Archibald Wavell Henry Wilson Alexander Papagos Josip Broz Tito Enver Hoxha	Domenico Cavagnari Arturo Riccardi Vittorio Tur Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa Luigi Spalice Romolo Polacchini Alexander Löhr Joachim Lietzmann Ante Pavelić Leon Rupnik

The Adriatic campaign of World War II was a minor naval campaign fought during World War II between the Greek, Yugoslavian and Italian navies, the Kriegsmarine, and the Mediterranean squadrons of the United Kingdom, France, and the Yugoslav Partisan naval forces. Considered a somewhat insignificant part of the naval warfare in World War II, it nonetheless saw interesting developments, given the specificity of the Dalmatian coastline.