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Story
The Canadians deploy Kangaroo tanks of the 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment to storm the Herebrug on Saturday 14 A...
Battlefield
In the night of Saturday 14 April 1945, Canadian soldiers of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry regiment make two attempt...
After Canadian soldiers of the Black Watch of Canada crossed the Reitdiep on Sunday 15 April 1945 to occupy the Wilhelmi...
Monument
The Glider Monument consists of a steel skeleton of a full-size glider. The Waco CG-4 is an American military glider tha...
After a successful advance across the Zuid Beveland peninsula as part of Operation Vitality, the Canadian Second Divisio...
During the liberation of the city of Groningen, the Canadian advance at the railway bridge over the Hoendiep came to a s...
One of the last German positions around the municipality of Groningen where there is still fierce fighting is in Noorder...
Museum
No Man's Land War Museum tells the story of the Betuwe region between 1939 and 1945. In the old town hall of Gendt, this...
September 1944: Operation Market Garden is in full swing. A group of paratroopers need to conquer one more hill before t...
Rolling hills and green fields - the area between Nijmegen and Groesbeek seems like a haven of tranquillity. It is hard ...
Ru Paré was an artist and resistance fighter who saved the lives of 52 Jewish children. ...
Like nearly all Jews during the war, Eva and Albert Zeligman from Meerssen were summoned to report for deportation at Ma...
In September of 1944, Operation Market Garden was launched. Though most of the fighting took place in and around Nijmege...
Landmark
The former Tienakker convent in Wijchen served as a headquarters for the Allied troops during WWII and was even visited ...
Jacques (Jac) Maris is known for the many memorials and monuments he designed, but what many people do not know is that ...
The Netherlands is known as a country of water. The Dutch have been fighting against and trying to control the water for...
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 Mardasson Memorial commemorates the Ardennes Counteroffensive which happened from 16 December 1944 to 16 January 194...
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 ...
On Sunday 24 September 1944, the approximately 30,000 inhabitants of the still occupied eastern part of Kerkrade were or...
A large part of present-day Landgraaf was only just able to benefit from the fast American advance through South Limburg...
Members of the Red Horse, an American reconnaissance unit of the 113th Cavalry Group, had been spotted at the casemate o...
