Despite the lack of supplies, the Axis troops refused to surrender and defended every street and house.

On one such inspection he was just eight minutes ahead of the Axis troops when they broke through the Italian front.

Axis troops were stationed in the village, and the local council dissolved.

Around 20,000 Axis troops were committed to the operation.

But in 1943 his education was halted when he was drafted into a military labor corps to support the front-line Axis troops.

They were the last Axis troops to leave the Chir line.

Surrender of Axis troops in Italy comes into effect.

There it was encircled along with the rest of the Axis troops in the Hungarian capital and destroyed.

Australian 9th Division estimated at least 2,000 Axis troops had been killed and more than 3,700 prisoners of war taken in the battle.

These Axis troops were surrounded near Fornovo and after some fighting surrendered.