1942 result(s)
Audiospot
The area around the current roundabout in Hoogerheide was the scene of fierce street fighting between Canadian soldiers ...
Battlefield
By mid-January 1945, units of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division had been staying along the Meuse front for another two ...
While German troops were withdrawing to new positions across the entire front in the West Brabant region in late October...
Monument
During the Second World War, Milsbeek suffered a relatively high number of civilian casualties. Most fell when the vill...
Cemetery
The Zuydcoote National Necropolis has been in existence since 1922, and brings together soldiers from the First World Wa...
Fortification
The Atlantikwall Raversyde in Oostende, Belgium features over 60 bunkers, observation posts and artillery positions of t...
Museum
The Memorial Museum of the Maginot Line of the Rhine, located in Marckolsheim, commemorates the fierce fighting of 15, 1...
The Dunkirk Memorial honours the memory of the 4,528 soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force from 110 different unit...
After the battle was won in Normandy, the 4th Canadian Armoured Division began its long march into Holland. In late Octo...
Liberating the inner city of Bergen op Zoom proved to be an easy task for the 4th Canadian Armoured Division. The comple...
On Sunday 15 April around 1:30 PM, a large open truck will head for the Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat. The German army vehic...
An unknown page in the military history of the Canadian Army are the serious violent crimes committed by Canadians in t...
Two families who were members of the Czech Resistance lived in this building; the Král family and the Hrdlička family....
Story
It was in this building that the Král family lived; Václav Král, his wife Pavla Králova, and their daughter, Helena Král...
The Biesbosch Museum Island tells the unique story of the historical development of the Biesbosch. Visitors discover the...
From 1935 to 1945 the EL-DE House was the headquarters of the Gestapo of Cologne, Germany. The documentation centre was ...
The village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne, France became the scene of a Nazi war-crime on June 10, 1944. Soldiers...
As a grocer, Ruurd de Bruin was closely involved in the resistance in Northeast Groningen. In August 1944 he was arreste...
The History Museum Jean Garcin in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse opened in 1990. It offers a multidisciplinary approach to the per...
On Tuesday, 19th September 1944, the British paratroopers George Bowers and Robert Thompson were fatally hit by German f...
The Topography of Terror in Berlin stands on the site of the main organs of Nazi terror between 1933 and 1945, including...
When Canadian soldiers liberated the area around the village of Groede on October 25, 1944, they were astounded to find ...
In the church of Holwierde hangs a wooden board with a carved text from the Bible book of Proverbs. There is a story beh...
The Historical Technical Museum in Peenemünde was built in 1991 on the grounds of the former German development centre w...