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Champ de Bataille
Now reinforced with units of the fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade, the sixth Infantry Brigade continued the advance towar...
Cimetière
The Military Cemetery in Kapelle is the only military cemetery in Zeeland, and the only French military cemetery in the ...
Monument
In the night of 25 to October 26, a few thousand Scottish soldiers from the 156th Infantry Brigade stepped into Buffalo ...
Audiospot
Sous le nom de code d'Opération Vitality II des unités de la 52ième Division écossaise Lowland débarquent sur Zuid-Bevel...
For several years after the end of the Second World War, the Walcheren Causeway - at that time a dyke of a 1000 meters i...
Arnemuiden is a city situated on the western end of the Walcheren Causeway. It came under artillery fire during the batt...
Fortification
Fort Rammekens was built in the sixteenth century to control and protect the shipping connection to Middelburg and Antwe...
In 1942, Toorenvliedt was set up as divisional headquarters for the German units on Walcheren and the Bevelanden. It was...
On November 5, the battle at the Walcheren Causeway ended and Scottish and Canadian units advanced towards Middelburg. A...
When the final Canadian-British attack on the German positions at the Sloedam was successful, the advance to Middelburg ...
Lieu d'intêret
Stützpunkt Hamster accommodated five large radar stations of the German Air Force in the Netherlands. With the Mammut ra...
Histoire
Walcheren était d'une grande importance stratégique en raison de sa situation à l'embouchure de l'Escaut et du puissant ...
The Allies spearheaded the invasion of Walcheren with Operation Infatuate II: a landing near the bombarded ‘Zeedijk’ nea...
En 2017, trois plaques commémoratives ont été dévoilées en l'honneur des résistants de Pilsen dans trois maisons situées...
The Dishoek Coastal Battery was part of the Atlantikwall. The German occupiers established the more than 5.000 kilometre...
In addition to the landing at Westkapelle, the Allies started the invasion of Walcheren with a landing at Flushing – Ope...
Lors des célébrations du Jour de la libération en mai 2012, un monument aux soldats tchécoslovaques qui ont combattu sur...
Dès le 4 septembre 1944, la foule afflue au Soldat inconnu. Depuis 1922, il incarne le lieu de mémoire par excellence de...
Bruxelles. 7 septembre 1944. En route pour partir rejoindre son Etat-Major, le field marchal Montgomery fait une courte ...
Quartier bruxellois atypique et populaire, les Marolles sont considérées comme le haut lieu de ce que l’on appelle la « ...
Hormis les actions menées par les forces de la résistance armée en septembre ’44, la contribution proprement militaire d...
The province of Zealand and Flanders play a key role at the end of World War II. From September 4 until November 8 1944 ...
