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Originally Posted by JCFalkenbergIII
In a issue of World War II magazine there was an interesting article on the Channel Islands. The German military there did not surrender till the end of the war. They didnt surrender til 9 May 1945. Way after being bypassed by the Allies when they landed in Normandy. They fought till the end .
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Actually the last German troops in the Channel Isles didn't surrender until the 23rd May 1945. A small group of troops were based on the small Island of Minquiers, and somehow when the rest of the Channel Isles garrison surrendered to the British they were forgotten about. It wasn't until they 'flagged down' a French fishing boat which took them to England were they able to surrender
