1942 result(s)
Histoire
"The worm has red hair," "Give my regards to Joseph." Such phrases were used to announce arms drops. In Friesland, 24 of...
Fierce battles raged in the skies above Friesland throughout the occupation. Allied bombers heading for targets in Germa...
Champ de Bataille
Every year on 15 April, the Royal Canadian Dragoons commemorate the liberation of Leeuwarden and Friesland on Leeuwarden...
By 18 April, the mainland of Friesland had been liberated. The fighting continued in Groningen. The Wadden Islands had t...
During the war, dozens of people hid in the small village of Abbega and the adjacent hamlet of Abbegaasterketting. In Fe...
Monument
There is a living war memorial in Grolloo in the form of a Canadian Red Beech. It is known as the Vredesboom (Tree of Pe...
A village in Drenthe, in the smoke of the Westerbork camp, not only had NSB members, but also the resistance. Everyone k...
Because of the situation in the south, the Allied advance and the liberation of the northern part of the Netherlands had...
On 6 April 1945, the first Canadian scouts had been spotted in the northern part of the Netherlands. The population was ...
The bridge over the Linthorst-Homan Canal had been blown up, so the Canadian liberators had to take a different way on t...
After the German resistance was forcibly crushed in Hooghalen, the Canadian troops moved into Assen. In the preceding da...
Musée
A special museum has been established at the Johan Willem Friso Barracks in Assen: the Stoottroepen Museum displays the ...
“It was the end of January 1945. For quite some time, hunger had held the Holland provinces in the western part of the N...
14 March 1945. Bomb on Nieuwstraat, currently known as Wethouder Buningstraat. The war was nearing its end, but the neig...
A commemorative plaque on the bridge between Zeegse and Schipborg has been commemorating a special man since 4 May 2021:...
The Dennenoord psychiatric hospital was full of Germans during the war, which had been seized by the occupying forces to...
Zuidlaren's resistance monument is undeniably a resistance monument. It depicts a man facing a firing squad. He appears ...
French paratroopers landed in several places in Drenthe the days before the liberation of Grolloo on 12 April, including...
Cimetière
An English Halifax bomber was on its way to Berlin to wreak death and destruction there, just before the start of 1944. ...
Le cimetière Ann’s Hill à Gosport est un cimetière public communal qui contient également une parcelle de sépultures d...
Lieu d'intêret
Le terrain d'essai de bombardement d'Ashley Walk se trouve sur Roger Penny Way ; de nombreux sentiers pédestres mènent...
L'église Christ Church, Portsdown est le lieu où le désormais intitulé « Knight’s Vigil » a eu lieu le 4 juin 1944, de...