1942 result(s)
Landmark
RAF Woodhall Spa opened in February 1942 as a heavy bomber airfield with three hangars with bomb stores. It is located...
Museum
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitors Centre is home to the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight...
The Royal Air Force College Cranwell is probably the most famous Royal Air Force training school. During the Second Wo...
Story
In 1940 George Eardley from Congleton was conscripted and in July 1944 he joined the Shropshire Regiment. He received hi...
Things were tense around the village of Best from 18 September 1944 onwards. American soldiers were approaching from Ein...
The liberation of the Netherlands began in September 1944 with the start of Operation Market Garden. Numerous paratroope...
Colonel Frank Krebs, commander of the 440th Troop Carrier Group, was sitting at the controls of the Dakota C-47 Stoy Hor...
RAF Hibaldstow opened in May 1941. The airfield is located between the villages of Hibaldstow and Redbourne....
The village of Ulicoten near Baarle-Nassau was on the front line for almost a month. On 13 October 1944 there was fighti...
Fortification
Many imposing buildings in the Vaals region were used for military purposes during the Second World War. Sometimes this ...
For a lot of people, daily life continued during the war. The farmers kept their jobs and worked their land. But most of...
Someren had already been liberated and there was heavy fighting 1500 metres away at lock gate no. 11. The English libera...
Allied troops landed on the coast of Normandy in June 1944 and quickly liberated Paris followed by Brussels and Antwerp....
September 1944: the allied troops arrived in the south of the Netherlands. The first communities in Limburg and North Br...
The Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin tells the story of 2,000 years of German history. The permanent exhibition c...
There was once a German boy who knew all about delicate things. His birthplace was Meißen, Germany’s pottery town. Karl-...
Battlefield
On Friday 6 April 1945, at about 11.30am, the Canadians made a reconnaissance towards Ommen. ...
Monument
On 31 August 1944, cornered by Allied troops advancing on Abbeville, the German forces executed a group of eleven men ...
Camp Erika, also known as Camp Ommen, is a virtually forgotten former German concentration camp in the forests of Ommen,...
Because of its very active resistance movement, the municipality of Andeville particularly fuelled the hatred of Nazi Ge...
On 30 August 1944, three members of the French Fighting Forces were killed by the Nazis. They had been parachuted in t...
On 4 September 1944, after a German officer was killed by the Resistance, sixteen civilian hostages were shot. The massa...
La Coupole, one of the most atypical German constructions of the Second World War, was intended to serve as a storage ...
On 2 September 1944, 36 civilians were executed by retreating German troops in the hamlets of Gard and La Junière (locat...