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Musée
In the Frisian Maritime Museum, a model can be seen of the barge Jan Nieveen, which maintained a regular ferry service b...
Histoire
With reconnaissance flights, the Allied air force mapped out German troop movements in Friesland. And, in some cases, at...
Monument
"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...
The concentration camp for Italian and foreign Jews in Bagni di Lucca operated from December 1943 to January 1944, when ...
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...
Champ de Bataille
On April 24, 1945, the Canadian soldiers of the Irish Regiment of Canada had cleared the village of Wagenborgen of the l...
Haren is visited by a wonderful group of liberators. On Friday evening the Essex Scottish Regiment advanced to Paterswol...
After the liberation in April 1945, Eelde was the central point for “The 8th Princess Louise New Brunswick Hussars”. Thi...
On 11 November 1944, pilots of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based at Welschap airfield near Eindhoven, were ordered to ...
The grave monument in Gytsjerkwas erected in memory of Maria v/d Heuij. Maria was one of seventy evacuees from Arnhem an...
On 12 April, ten captured Dutch collaborators were shot without trial just outside Oldeberkoop. It was long thought that...
On 12 April, the Royal Canadian Dragoons were the first Canadian ground units to enter the province of Friesland near No...
On 18 April, Makkum was one of the last villages on the Frisian mainland to be liberated. The residents of Makkum experi...
During the battle of Delfzijl, observation officer Captain Walker volunteers to search for a missing company of the Iris...
Audiospot
Immediately after the liberation in April 1945, a temporary Canadian cemetery was established in Wirdum. The 44 fallen s...
Lieu d'intêret
En mai 1944, préparant le futur débarquement, les Alliés multiplient les missions aériennes pour affaiblir les forces al...
La plage du Pourrousset présente une parfaite illustration des possibilités offertes par la côte de l’Estérel : être un ...
