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was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of WWI, fought between Axis forces (Germany and Italy) and Allied forces (Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand).
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was a major battle of WWII in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia.
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was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe.
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the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during WWII.
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was a major German offensive, launched toward the end of WWII through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front.
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was the final major offensive of the European Theatre of WWII.
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Victory in Europe Day commemorates the date when the WWII Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.