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Cimitero
War is not only about battles, battlefields, winners or losers. It is also about mourning, souvenirs, reconstruction and...
On the 57 acres of Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial the remains of 7.992 American soldiers are interred. Mo...
Storia
On Tuesday, 19th September 1944, the British paratroopers George Bowers and Robert Thompson were fatally hit by German f...
Museo
Inaugurato nel 2010, il museo Bastogne Barracks si trova nelle caserme che ospitarono i quartier generali degli alleati ...
Monumento
On 3 September 1944, six people (three gendarmes and three civilians), were executed at the Crécy-en-Ponthieu sugar fa...
Corrie Kool from Holwierde is sixteen years old when the Netherlands is liberated. No one could have predicted that his ...
Houffalize was a strategically located crossroads on the Ourthe River, right in the center of the Bulge, south of Liège ...
On 17 December 1944 the German fighting unit (Kampfgruppe) Peiper killed 84 American prisoners of war at the crossroads ...
During the Second World War, Milsbeek suffered a relatively high number of civilian casualties. Most occurred when the v...
At the end of the Second World War the Austrian SS-commander Otto Skorzeny was for the Allies ’the most wanted man in Eu...
In the church of Holwierde hangs a wooden board with a carved text from the Bible book of Proverbs. There is a story beh...
On Monday 16 April, the Canadians are fighting with the Germans for the bridges in Oosterhogebrug over the Van Starkenbo...
On 11 June 1944, a group of ten Resistance fighters from Pas-de-Calais who on their way to a maquis in the Ardennes, wer...
On 25 March 1945, just a few weeks before the end of World War II, Franz Oppenhoff, the Mayor of the city of Aachen, w...
The Museum of the Battle of the Bulge in Clervaux illustrates the course of the Battle of the Bulge through documents an...
The memorial and Sherman tank located here in Hastière commemorate the actions of the US Army here on 5 September 1944...
This American Sherman tank was destroyed during the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944 to 45. It is now a lasti...
Almost immediately after the start of the Second World War, the German occupiers realized Scheinflughafen Kamerun (SF37...
La batteria di artiglieria di Saint-Marcouf (o Crisbecq) ebbe un ruolo chiave durante lo sbarco in Normandia del 6 giugn...
Luogo di interesse
This water tower still stands today, in Rocherath, one of the ‘Twin Villages’ of Rocherath-Krinkelt, in the Belgian mu...
In December 1944, with the advance of the German 2nd Panzer Division through the village of Noville in Bastogne, Belgi...
Chambois was the block in the so-called Falaise pocket. The junction in Chambois village, made on 19 August 1944 by A...
During the German offensive in the Ardennes, the US 1st 'Big Red One’ Infantry Division, was deployed to the frontline...
The Monument to the Meeting of Allied Forces in Torgau commemorates the historic meeting of American and Soviet soldiers...
