On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...
May 8 marks 80 years since the close of the European theater in World War II, when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. The fighting in Europe stopped when the Chief of Staff of the German Armed ...
The remarkable war diaries of a Boldon man - who was with Field Marshall Montgomery when Germany surrendered - have been revealed. Boldon-born Leonard Barker Knox was a married father of one when he ...