What Happened in Feb 1943

Surviving German Forces, now Starving, Sick, and Low on Ammunition, Surrender at Stalingrad

The Germans inside the pocket retreated from the suburbs of Stalingrad to the city itself. The loss of the two airfields, at Pitomnik on 16 January... Read more

Remaining Australian Forces Evacuated from Portuguese Timor Leaving Japanese to Occupy the Island

By the end of 1942, the chances of the Allies re-taking Timor were remote, as there were now 12,000 Japanese troops on the island and the commandos... Read more

Joseph Goebbels Delivers His Sportpalast (Total War) Speech

Except for Hitler's most successful public meetings, I had never seen an audience so effectively roused to fanaticism. Back in his home, Goebbels... Read more

Third Battle of Kharkov

The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of offensive operations on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by the German Army Group South... Read more

George Harrison is Born

The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960 and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the... Read more