V-E Day was the 8 May 1945, the day that victory in Europe was celebrated by the Allies.

V-Weapons was the term given by the British to the weapons developed by the Germans as a form of retaliation for the destructive Allied bombing raids on German cities.

After Italy declared war on Britain in June 1940 British and Commonwealth forces went into action in North Africa against the Italians, and later the German Afrika Corps, with newly developed weapons like the Valentine Mk III infantry tank, so called because it came off the drawing board on St. Valentine's Day 1938.