1942 result(s)
Audiospot
The diary of Rose Jakobs is gripping and enthralling. A young Jewish woman, who went into hiding with her family, first ...
You could call the action of the German frogmen here a genuine act of daring. Putting their own lives in danger, they at...
Landmark
Silence, a deep, terrifying silence, which has become almost tangible, reigns around an abandoned Groninger Emmabrug and...
Story
During the battle of Delfzijl, observation officer Captain Walker volunteers to search for a missing company of the Iris...
Museum
The museum recreates the Shoah during the battle of Cassino through an impressive interactive and immersive route. The r...
There was fierce German resistance on and around the bridges of Nijmegen. On the 20th of September 1944, the Allied mili...
Seizing the bridge over the Rhine in Arnhem, the key objective of Operation Market Garden, proved to be an impossible mi...
The Betuwe, the floodplain between the Waal and Rhine river, became the boundary between Allied and German territory aft...
In September 1944, the allied forces met with fierce German resistance near Elst while they were advancing towards Arnhe...
The small village of Abbega and the neighbouring hamlet of Abbegaasterketting hid dozens of people in hiding during the ...
Known locally as the land of wind and water, this region has great stretches of marshlands and rivers. If you head towar...
The first narrative museum in Italy, the MAR, which stands for Museo Audiovisivo della Resistenza (Audiovisual Museum of...
Operation Amherst was the code name for the airborne landings of some 700 French paratroopers. They were part of the Bri...
Bridges are of utmost importance for the allied advance. The Molenhook bridge, as the Americans refer to the old bridge ...
Monument
The memorial was erected here in 2012 to commemorate the service of those who served in the Combined Operations Pilota...
Field Marshal Bernard Law ‘Monty’ Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, was a senior British Army Officer who ...
The general mobilisation turned out to be a huge intervention in the daily lives of almost all Dutch people. Obviously f...
Cemetery
Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery contains 1,359 burials, of which 611 are from the Second World War. The graves are maintai...
The quayside on the edge of the harbour was used for the construction of components of the Mulberry Harbours, artifici...
Portsmouth Naval Memorial commemorates the 14,952 sailors who were killed during the Second World War....
Early in the morning on 12th September 1944, approximately three months after the Normandy landings, the American 30th I...
The Ravensbrück Concentration Camp was the largest concentration camp for women on German soil. Between 1939 and 1945 ar...
During the Second World War, RAF Beaulieu was situated at this location. After its opening on 8 August 1942, it was us...
RNAS Lee-on-Solent was a shore airfield that was also referred to as HMS Daedalus because of its links with the Royal ...