1942: British forces take Bardia, along with 8,000 Axis prisoners.

1942: The Red Army achieves a breakthrough at Rzhev.

1942: Japanese troops enter Manila and the U.S. Naval base at Cavite falls as US-Filipino forces retreat into the Bataan Peninsula.

1943: The allies finally take Buna in New
Guinea.

1943: Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus.

1944: Hitler’s Chancellery is reported 75 per cent destroyed with many trapped in the shelters below after a direct hit during an RAF raid on Berlin. Wing Commander John Cunningham makes it 19-all with Wing Commander J. R. Braham in night-fighter air-ace's ‘league’.

1944: US Marines land at Saidor in northern New Guinea.

1945: Danish saboteurs wreck a V2 factory in Copenhagen.

1945: Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey dies in plane crash near Paris and becomes the fourth prominent allied leader to die like this.