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Campo di battaglia
Now reinforced with units of the fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade, the sixth Infantry Brigade continued the advance towar...
Cimitero
The Military Cemetery in Kapelle is the only military cemetery in Zeeland, and the only French military cemetery in the ...
Monumento
In the night of 25 to October 26, a few thousand Scottish soldiers from the 156th Infantry Brigade stepped into Buffalo ...
Audiospot
in the early morning of October 26, the first units of the Scottish 156th Infantry Brigade landed on Amber Beach, just s...
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...
Fortificazione
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 ...
Luogo di interesse
Stützpunkt Hamster accommodated five large radar stations of the German Air Force in the Netherlands. With the Mammut ra...
Storia
Walcheren was of great strategic importance due to its location at the mouth of the Scheldt and the strong Atlantikwall....
The Allies spearheaded the invasion of Walcheren with Operation Infatuate II: a landing near the bombarded ‘Zeedijk’ nea...
Nel 2017 sono state inaugurate tre targhe commemorative in onore dei combattenti della resistenza di Pilsen in tre case ...
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...
Durante le celebrazioni per la Festa della Liberazione nel maggio 2012, è stato inaugurato in via Husova un monumento ai...
As early as 4 September 1944, people flocked to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Since 1922, this sepulchre had been the...
Brussels. 7 September 1944. On the way to his headquarters, the Field Marshal Montgomery made a short, unexpected stopov...
An atypical and popular Brussels neighbourhood, the Marolles are considered to be the centre of what is known as the Bru...
Apart from the actions carried out by the armed resistance forces in September 1944, Belgium's strictly military contrib...
The province of Zealand and Flanders play a key role at the end of World War II. From September 4 until November 8 1944 ...
