1942 result(s)
Story
On Monday afternoon, 18 September 1944, a patrol under command of captain Killick marches via the Oranjewachtstraat and ...
Monument
The resistance monument commemorates the "Forest Partisans of Baarlo" and their German prisoners of war during the last ...
Cemetery
This cemetery of honour is located within the municipal graveyard of Eupen. It was established in August 1914 and cont...
Audiospot
In the first week of May 1945, negotiations took place between the Germans and the Allied forces. The Germans were willi...
Around 3,000 civilians and 36,000 soldiers died in the ‘Battle of the Bulge’. Many cities, towns and villages were destr...
In April 1945 the population of the Western part of the Netherlands was starving. The Allies decided to negotiate food a...
On the 30th of October 1944, the people of Roosendaal can finally smoke a cigarette with their liberators. Much has happ...
Battlefield
While the soldiers were doing their deadly work, the civilians of West Zeeland-Flanders were literally among the fire du...
Friday 13 April 1945 "The signs of liberation are there. Where we could normally sell rationed products based on that ...
Landmark
The Capitol used to be one of the main cinemas in Eupen. The highly modern Art Deco style theatre was opened in Decemb...
On March 13, 1945, Queen Wilhelmina finally set foot on Dutch soil again after a five year exile. For this historic mome...
In addition to the landing at Westkapelle, the Allies started the invasion of Walcheren with a landing at Flushing – Ope...
Fortification
At the beginning of the Second World War, a 360-cubic metre concrete bunker vault was excavated deep into St Peter's Mou...
On 22 September 1944, the major part of Nederweert was liberated by scouts from the illustrious 3rd British Infantry Div...
In the period after the Normandy landings, the Allied engineers had to build thousands of emergency bridges to support t...
Private David McKellar is one of the many allied soldiers who died an unknown and inglorious death for our freedom. Than...
Tens of thousands helped dig the Assener Stellung in the last year of the war to stop the Allied tanks, but the arduous,...
On Tuesday 19 December 1944, in both Heusden and Elshout, Canadian servicemen organised a big party with a Father Christ...
On 23 March 1944, in Via Rasella, in the centre of Rome, a bomb by GAP (Patriotic Action Group) partisans killed 33 Nazi...
Friday April 20, 1945. The mother of Henk (9) and Frits (6) Middendorp hung up the laundry in the garden of their farm i...
On 27 August 1944, nineteen members of the French Forces of the Interior were executed by German troops in the commune o...
Eén van de Canadese regimenten dat Zuid-Beveland van 24 tot 31 oktober bevrijdt is Le Régiment de Maisonneuve. Hiervan m...
On Friday the 6th of April 1945 Den Ham is liberated. Further north is the Bartels family farm. This no-man's land has n...
After the Canadians of the South Saskwatchewan Regiment have crossed the Emma Bridge in Groningen on Sunday morning, Apr...