1942 result(s)
Museum
A permanent shelter has been set up in the casemates under the city. The Schuilkelder (Shelter) Museum aims to keep ali...
Story
Houffalize was a strategically located crossroads on the Ourthe River, right in the center of the Bulge, south of Liège ...
Landmark
The flourishing and extensive Jewish community in Arnhem, one of the oldest in the Netherlands, is hit hard in the Secon...
The end of Fliegerhorst Havelte can be pinpointed very precisely: a barrage of bombs dropped on 24 March 1945 left nothi...
Battlefield
The Battle of the Sangro River represents the clashes between the British Army's 8th Army and Nazi troops along the Abru...
Audiospot
Those who lived through this battle still have very vivid memories of it; the never-ending stream of aircraft, in Septem...
With the liberation of Loppersum on April 21, 1945, the path seemed to be open for the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Wi...
Cemetery
The Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial site contains the remains of 3,812 of American soldiers who fell in the Sec...
The inhabitants flee from the town of Appingedam because of the heavy German shelling by the German coastal artillery. T...
After the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, the Atlantic Wall was breached, and there was an opportunity to attack fr...
Harrie van Daal, born in 1908, was a civil servant at the Municipality of Overloon–Maashees (later to become Vierlingsbe...
The Bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem was the last bridge that needed to be captured during Operation Market Garden. If th...
Monument
"The worm has red hair," "Give my regards to Joseph." Such phrases were used to announce arms drops. In Friesland, 24 of...
The Schoenenbourg Fort is the most important Maginot Line fortification in Alsace, France. The fort has been open to the...
On 24 September 1944, Koevering and Logtenburg were captured by German units during Operation Market Garden. As a result...
Large parts of North Brabant were on the route of the V-1 flying bombs. Even a Canadian headquarters in Kaatsheuvel did ...
At the end of World War Two, The Hague was a sorry sight. The city’s proximity to the coast, one of its major assets, ha...
The Belgian 1st Infantry Brigade led by Colonel Piron landed in Arromanches on 8 August 1944. Operating under the comman...
On 6 June 1944 the 51st Highland Division landed in Normandy on Juno Beach. The men were at the front line in the city o...
Remarkably, at the site of one of the greatest tragedies in Tiel's war history, there is no remembrance mark. Yet one of...
On 6 January 1941,President Franklin Delano Roosevelt articulated the Four Freedoms in the State of the Union. In this F...
The foundation that manages the museum, Stichting Luchtoorlog 1939-1945 (Foundation Air War 1939-1945), focuses on the a...
Jan Dommering was a hotel owner and an internationally known billiard player. During the war, he collaborated with the r...
On 14 June 1944, the 15th Scottish Infantry Division landed in Normandy on Sword Beach. On 26 June they fought on the fr...