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Monument
Bastogne represents the last point of the Liberty Road (Voie de la Liberté). Starting in Normandy, the Liberty Road is...
Located a short distance west from Bastogne, Chenogne was devastated by the ferocious fighting that took place there dur...
Located between Assenois and Bastogne, a pre-WWII small concrete Belgian bunker marked the vicinity in which Sherman tan...
Landmark
Because of its strategic position astride one of the main roads into Bastogne from the south, Lutrebois would find itsel...
During December 1944 and January 1945, the village of Houmont and surrounding area became embroiled in the fierce fighti...
Strategically located on one of the main roads into Bastogne, the small village of Mageret was heavily caught up in the ...
During WWII, the village of Flamierge and surrounding area was the setting of severe fighting with the battle raging bac...
Between 1945 and 1948, a temporary American military cemetery containing the graves of some 2,700 American soldiers was ...
Story
One of the many challenges facing the Americans encircled at Bastogne, was how to get supplies. From 23 to 28 December 1...
The monument honours the men of Easy Company from the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the U.S. 101st Airborne...
During the Battle of the Bulge, located in the field behind the monument, a hospital was established by the 326th Airbor...
The small village of Neffe symbolically marks the closest point that the Panzer Lehr Division came to reaching Bastogne ...
Wardin and Marvie were strategic positions in the defence of Bastogne. At the beginning of the battle, the villages were...
Immortalised in Stephen Ambrose’s book and the subsequent TV series, Band of Brothers, Foy has become a well-known villa...
The village of Villeroux and surrounding area, including the Bois de Fragotte (Fragotte Wood) was the scene of fierce fi...
Museum
In 1944 Canadian troops liberated the western part of Zeeuws-Flandres. The debris has long been cleared up and finding r...
The liberation of Boom is closely connected with the freeing of Willebroek. On 4 September, British tanks moved rapidly ...
Battlefield
The Battle of Geel continued in Ten Aard, a township of Geel. Heavy fighting persisted for nine days and nights. The ent...
On 10 September, the British occupied a large part of the town centre with the help of the Sherman tanks of the Sherwood...
Antwerp had been liberated, but the Germans had dug in behind the Albert Canal. The commanders of the British 50th North...
In August 1944, the end of the war was already in sight in Heist-op-den-Berg. On 29 August, the wives and children of th...
The Germans sounded the retreat on 3 September 1944. They seized anything with wheels, from bicycles to farm carts. The ...
On September 5th 1944 at 9.30 a.m, four British reconnaissance vehicles approached from Mortsel. Residents streamed into...
The Nazis used the Dossin Barracks as a transit camp for almost 26,000 Jews, Roma and Sinti during the Second World War....
