1942 result(s)
Fortyfikacja
Fort Rammekens was built in the sixteenth century to control and protect the shipping connection to Middelburg and Antwe...
Pole bitwy
For several years after the end of the Second World War, the Walcheren Causeway - at that time a dyke of a 1000 meters i...
On November 5, the battle at the Walcheren Causeway ended and Scottish and Canadian units advanced towards Middelburg. A...
Historia
Brussels. 7 September 1944. On the way to his headquarters, the Field Marshal Montgomery made a short, unexpected stopov...
Pomnik
During the night of October 8 to9, 1944, nearly 100 Buffalo amphibious vehicles full of military personnel were transpor...
At the end of October 1944, Canadian units attacked the bunker system of Stützpunkt Cadzand-Badhuis during their advance...
One of the main operations during the battle for the Scheldt was to clear the "Breskens pocket", the German defensive po...
Peace Square (náměstí Míru), featuring a park, is one of the earliest places of remembrance in Pilsen and is the locatio...
In 1950, the twenty-one members of the Rimburg Veterans Association decided to found a chapel in Rimburgerbos. They did ...
Audiospot
The resistance in Dronrijp sabotaged a German goods train on 10 April 1945, causing it to derail. The Sicherheitsdienst ...
In early April 1945, the tension in Leeuwarden was palpable. Liberation was imminent. Fleeing Germans and Nazi sympathis...
During the fighting in the center of Groningen on 14 and 15 April 1945, the Germans defended themselves fiercely. They a...
Cmentarz
Fierce battles raged in the skies above Friesland throughout the occupation. Allied bombers heading for targets in Germa...
The Glider Monument consists of a steel skeleton of a full-size glider. The Waco CG-4 is an American military glider tha...
One of the last German positions around the municipality of Groningen where there is still fierce fighting is in Noorder...
During the liberation of the city of Groningen, the Canadian advance at the railway bridge over the Hoendiep came to a s...
The Emile Cady Monument pays homage to Corporal Emile Cady, who died here on 10 May 1940, during the first invasion of...
Bastogne represents the last point of the Liberty Road (Voie de la Liberté). Starting in Normandy, the Liberty Road is...
During December 1944 and January 1945, the village of Houmont and surrounding area became embroiled in the fierce fighti...
Located between Assenois and Bastogne, a pre-WWII small concrete Belgian bunker marked the vicinity in which Sherman tan...
Miejsce zainteresowania
On the morning of 5 September 1944, a patrol of African-American soldiers entered Lucca through Porta San Pietro. The t...
The convent attached to the church became the headquarters of the Republican National Guard in 1943 and as such a place ...
In the early morning of Tuesday 28 April 1945, the Canadian Perth Regiment captures the German anti-aircraft battery Nan...
On Saturday 24 August 1940 there was plenty of walking along the seawall above Uithuizen. For example, by farmer Jacob S...