1942 result(s)
Story
To ensure the success of Operation Market Garden, the Allied forces had to capture the bridge in Arnhem. But the light-a...
The city of Nijmegen played an important role in Operation Market Garden. With two bridges across the Waal river it was ...
Landmark
For more than three days, 750 British airborne troopers held out at the northern end of the bridge. Surrounded by German...
On 18 September 1944, one day after the first British airborne landings took place and lieutenant colonel Frost managed ...
There used to be a ship bridge on this spot. This bridge was still used during the war and became one of the targets of ...
In May 1940, 'De Ginkel' was the scene of acts of war. Inn De Zuid-Ginkel played a sad role. Here were three hussars (so...
The Betuwe, the floodplain between the Waal and Rhine river, became the boundary between Allied and German territory aft...
Operation Pegasus II took place in November 1944. It was an attempt to transport stranded British soldiers across the Rh...
Monument
"Windows on the Past" is a six meter high steel structure. The windows depict what took place on the Ginkel Heath in 194...
On 17 September 1944, Operation Market Garden began and exactly one day later, on 18 September, the municipality of Waal...
Cemetery
At the Soviet War Cemetery in Leusden, next to the Amersfoort Rusthof cemetery, 865 war victims from the former Soviet U...
In March 1945 the Allies broke the German defences and crossed the Rhine. The strange situation now occurred that the No...
The Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus was constructed between 1935 and 1936 as a headquarters of the German Ministry of Aviation. Du...
Located near the Pont Neuf in Alençon, the Leclerc monument was inaugurated on March 15, 1970 to recall the liberation o...
Audiospot
In the last week of November 1944, Geijsteren Castle was bombed severely for days on end by British troops. 60 German pa...
On the 11th of November 1944, a ferry accident occurred at Kessel. German soldiers force seven inhabitants of Belfeld to...
Museum
The National Military Museum (Nationaal Militair Museum), housed in the former air base in Soesterberg, is dedicated to ...
In 1966 a 25-metre high monument was erected on the Westerplatte peninsula. The Communists used it mainly as a propagand...
In late October 1944, the Wessem-Nederweert canal is part of the front line. Oberst Harry Hermann has his command post i...
Christmas 1944. Part of Zuid-Limburg is liberated. Roermond has become a city in the front line. The city has largely be...
After the lost battle of Arnhem, the Allies tried with all their might to maintain a bridgehead in the Betuwe. The front...
Gosport Hardway was chosen as one of the many embarkation points in the areas around Portsmouth, Gosport and Southampt...
Nervous about the approaching Soviet Army, the Germans decided to evacuate the Stutthof concentration camp in January 19...
After the Second World War the German population was forced out of the now Polish city of Gdańsk, to be replaced by Poli...