May 6th - Surrender of all US forces on Phillipines. May 28th - Germans defeat Soviets at Kharkov. July 3rd - Sevastopol falls to Germans. August 22nd - Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy. October 23rd - Battle of El Alamein begins.
Allies invade NW Africa.
January 28th - British 8th Army captures Tripoli. January 31st - German surrender at Stalingrad. May 12th - Surrender of Axis forces in North Africa. July 25th - Mussolini's Italian Fascist government overthrown. July 26th - Marshal Badoglio declares martial law in Italy.