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I know that Battle of Glazer's River = Battle of Rorke's Drift ( British Empire vs. Zulu/ 1879 Anglo-Zulu War ) and that someone once said that 3'rd Armageddon War = Battle at Stalingrad ( Soviet Union vs. Nazi Germany/ World War 2 ).

Are there more battles in Warhammer 40k that are based on real life Earth battles?

I use a D-Day type situation for scenarios all the time, Usually its Space marines in an armed bunker trying to stop an onslaught of Orks running up a hill. Sadly no beach or cool tank traps or water mines.

The lack of real tactics in 40k means it's pretty hard to compare battles to real life scenarios.

Siege of Vraks is bascially the Somme. Or any Death Korps battle.

The beginning of the Tranquility campaign in the Badab war tastes like the Crusades. The end of the Tranquility campaign sounds like the Iraq/Afghanistan campaigns with a genocidal twist.
Vraks is obviously World War I.
Apparently the events of Double Eagle are reminiscent of the Battle of Britain, although I do not know for sure as I haven't read it.
The Orks are basically European barbarians of the 300-400's and the Imperium of Man is their Rome. The Goffs are even named after one such barbarian people (the Goths) and the Deff Skulls look a bit like the ancient Britons.
You could also compare the Ullanor Crusade, where Horus became warmaster, to the Battle of Alesia (although I doubt this is intentional).

The heresy era tallarn battle sounds like the afrika corps v.s. the 8th army.

 psychadelicmime wrote:
The heresy era tallarn battle sounds like the afrika corps v.s. the 8th army.

Those weren't very tank-heavy battles, though the Tallarn Desert Raiders being armored comes from the North African Campaign of WW2.

Really I think of the 1967 6 Day War and 1973 Yom Kippur War. Largest tank battles since WW2 took place in the Sinai in those wars.