1942 result(s)
Museum
Grantham was home to the Headquarters of RAF No. 5 Group in Bomber Command....
Located on the former Second World War airfield, the centre includes an Avro Lancaster ‘Just Jane’, which performs tax...
RAF Ingham was the home of No. 199 (RAF) and 300 and 305 (Polish) Bomber Squadrons who served with the RAF during the ...
Located in the control tower of this former Lancaster base, the RAF Wickenby Memorial Museum recounts the history of t...
Located in Woodhall Spa, the Petwood Hotel is a treasured part of the history of Bomber County, as the county of Linco...
Cemetery
The Commonwealth war cemetery in Berlin contains 3,595 graves from the Second World War, 397 of them unidentified. The m...
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum has two permanent exhibitions and hosts many events every year. It is the onl...
Battlefield
West Brabant was liberated by a truly international force: General Crerar's First Canadian Army commanded British, Ameri...
Story
Similarly to other cities located in liberated territories, 's-Hertogenbosch became a 'leave centre', a place where Cana...
Other
Already in the early Middle Ages, Lublin was a significant political, religious and economic centre. Its importance was ...
Even during quiet periods at the front, military training continued. In late 1944, the Canadian troops found an ideal sp...
Landmark
On the one hand, the Aachen Central Station was the last German stop for many people fleeing from National Socialist p...
Between 1940 and 1944, large parts of Aachen were destroyed in a total of 69 air raids. Although reconstruction began ...
The official conduct of Aachen's first city administration under Franz Oppenhoff encountered criticism within the US a...
On the afternoon of 12 September 1944, the small municipality of Roetgen, located about 20 kilometres southeast of Aac...
Fortification
While numerous bunkers enabled the population of the city of Aachen to find easy shelter in emergency situations, the ...
Monument
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp was established in 1943 near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It served as a subcamp ...
‘Operation Market Garden’ was the Allied attempt to defeat the Germans as quickly as possible and put an end to the war....
The Casemate of Aschenbach in Uffheim is an interval infantry casemate of the Maginot Line, composed of two firing chamb...
Near Moerstraten lies the oldest monument commemorating fallen Canadian servicemen in the Netherlands. The initiative fo...
Audiospot
November 1944. American troops fight to no end in the Hürtgen Forest, in impenetrable woods and incessant rain, facing h...
Willemstad, a centuries-old fortified town, proved a tough nut to crack for the Allies in November 1944. A British divis...
The noise of war had approached the West Brabant village of Dinteloord in the first days of November 1944. It stopped at...
"The name Woensdrecht alone sends shivers down the spines of veterans of the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division." These are ...