1942 result(s)
Landmark
The forgotten airport of Malden was one of the starting points for Operation Varsity, the biggest airborne operation eve...
Battlefield
Rolling hills and green fields - the area between Nijmegen and Groesbeek seems like a haven of tranquillity. It is hard ...
Story
Ru Paré was an artist and resistance fighter who saved the lives of 52 Jewish children. ...
Café Waalzicht was the heart of the Groenlanden hamlet in the Ooijpolder, but on the night of 28 September 1944, a drama...
The former Tienakker convent in Wijchen served as a headquarters for the Allied troops during WWII and was even visited ...
Museum
Jacques (Jac) Maris is known for the many memorials and monuments he designed, but what many people do not know is that ...
Monument
Heerlen's iconic glass palace, designed in the 1930s by architect Fritz Peutz, has a turbulent war history. The top floo...
Heerlen has not suffered much from the violence of war. There was a clear reason why the Americans set up a rest centre ...
The Peace Wood is a remembrance memorial which was created for the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge and pays ...
Fortification
On 9 October 1938, Hitler announced a new expansion of the Westwall. Previously, industrial cities such as Aachen and Sa...
American troops were able to enter the still occupied part of evacuated Kerkrade on 5 October 1944 without encountering ...
Opened in 1920, the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw is the main institution preserving the historical relics of Polish mili...
This museum is dedicated to telling the story of the actions of the French Army and the German Army in their advance t...
During World War II, at least 16 Allied aircraft crashed through combat operations on the territory of the municipality ...
De Koedriest Monument (also known as the Russian monument) stands at the site where on 9 April 1942 77 Soviet soldiers w...
The Soviet War Cemetery in Leusden was officially opened on 18 November 1948. During the ceremony a monument was unveile...
The only mill of the municipality of Bergen is standing on a ridge on the Rimpelt, on the road connecting Afferden and S...
The plaque offered by residents of Heel and Panheel was unveiled on 10 September 1996 by the English veteran Jim Allen w...
Jan Hendrix and his cousin, curate Gerard Hermkens, were arrested on 17 December 1944. Both were killed in Germany in Fe...
Royal Naval Hospital Haslar was designated as a ‘Ports Hospital’ for Operation Overlord. The medical staff here expect...
Audiospot
After Terneuzen was liberated and the Western Scheldt became a front line, the shelling increased. Jan Oele, who was act...
“Monument to the Dutch” is the only monument in the Netherlands that was donated by veterans of the 101st Airborne Divis...
The Kangaroo monument was erected in honour of the 101st Airborne Division that fought hard against the German occupiers...
During the war years, Henkenshage Castle was used as a voucher distribution office. During Operation Market Garden, the ...