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The Axis forces surrendered on 13 May 1943 yielding over 275,000 prisoners of war. The last Axis force to surrender in North Africa was the 1st Italian Army of General Messe. [58] This huge loss of experienced troops greatly reduced the military capacity of the Axis powers, although some Axis troops escaped Tunisia.
Films set in the North African campaign, part of World War II. Pages in category "North African campaign films" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
The British referred to this theatre as the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre (so called due to the location of the fighting and the name of Middle East Command), the Americans called it the Mediterranean Theater of War and the German informal official history of the fighting is the Mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa 1939 ...
Tobruk is a 1967 American drama war film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard. The film was written by Leo Gordon (who also acted in the film) and released through Universal Pictures. Set in North Africa during the North African Campaign of World War II.
The Bloody Road to Tunis: Destruction of the Axis Forces in North Africa, November 1942 – May 1943. Greenhill Books. ISBN 9781853674457. Schreiber, Gerhard (2017). "The End of the North African Campaign and the War in Italy, 1943 to 1945". Germany and the Second World War. Vol.
The German surrender at Akershus Fortress (Norway) on 11 May 1945. This is a timeline showing surrenders of the various fighting groups of the Axis forces that also marked ending time of World War II:
Operation Vulcan (22 April – 6 May 1943) [1] and Operation Strike (6–12 May 1943) [2] were the final ground attacks by the Allied forces against the Italian and German forces in Tunis, [3] Cape Bon, and Bizerte, the last Axis bridgeheads in North Africa, during the Tunisian campaign of the Second World War.
These are depictions of diverse aspects of war in film and television, including but not limited to documentaries, TV mini-series, drama serials, and propaganda film.The list starts before World War I, followed by the Roaring Twenties, and then the Great Depression, which eventually saw the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which ended in 1945.