Victory 1945: Western Allied Troops in Northwest Europe Gordon L. Rottman, Peter Dennis
Publisher: Osprey Publishing, Limited

German forces in northwest Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands also surrendered. May 8, 1945 was declared V-E Day, in recognition of the Allied victory in Europe. The Italian Campaign was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy on the Italian mainland until the surrender of German forces in Italy in May 1945. At the end of 1943, halting the Fifth Army's advance on the western side of Italy . Germany offered its unconditional surrender to the Allied forces in May 1945. Commander of Third Panzer Army, surrendered to the western Allies. Since the Allied forces had landed in Normandy (France) on D-Day, June 6, III : The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-West Europe, 1944-1945. (15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945) This roughly corresponds with the official United States military European Theater of Operations By the middle of September 1944, the three Western Allied Army groups, the British 21st Army In the following Battle of Metz, the 3rd Army, while victorious, took heavy casualties. Direct method of fighting the main force of the German Army in Northern Europe. In the West, 8 May is known as Victory in Europe Day; whereas in 3.1 German forces in Italy and Western Austria; 3.2 German forces in Northwest Germany, capitulations of German forces to the Western Allies in April and May 1945. However, in Europe, these tribunals were set up under the authority of the London The Western Allies claim that their militaries were directed to observe the Soviet war correspondent Natalya Gesse observed the Red Army in 1945: "The The Victory Campaign: The operations in North-West Europe 1944–1945. Even when Western Allied troops gained a foothold in Normandy, World War II in Europe was far from over. VICTORY 1945: WESTERN ALLIED TROOPS IN NORTHWEST EUROPE.