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Story
West Brabant was strategically important for the German army, and also for the Allied forces. From Friday afternoon on 6...
Audiospot
On the 17th of September 1944, thousands of American and British paratroopers jump above their drop zones at Eindhoven, ...
The village of Ulicoten near Baarle-Nassau was on the front line for almost a month. On 13 October 1944 there was fighti...
For a lot of people, daily life continued during the war. The farmers kept their jobs and worked their land. But most of...
Soon after crossing the border, British XXXth Army Corps tanks drive into an ambush. The advance starts on September 17,...
Allied troops landed on the coast of Normandy in June 1944 and quickly liberated Paris followed by Brussels and Antwerp....
September 1944: the allied troops arrived in the south of the Netherlands. The first communities in Limburg and North Br...
During the last year of the war, resistance fighters crossed the water between liberated and occupied territory hundreds...
Battlefield
From early November 1944, the area south of the Hollands Diep, Amer and Maas rivers was in Allied hands. During the hars...
Large parts of North Brabant were on the route of the V-1 flying bombs. Even a Canadian headquarters in Kaatsheuvel did ...
Fortification
Soon after liberation, the Canadian forces placed anti-aircraft guns around 's-Hertogenbosch, intended to protect vital ...
Operation Pegasus II took place in November 1944. It was an attempt to transport stranded British soldiers across the Rh...
During World War II, South Drenthe was under a busy flight path. Quite a few planes were shot down as a result. Fighte...
Landmark
During the occupation of Leopoldsburg, the old cavalry blocks of the Belgian army no longer housed horses, but political...
After all of the North Brabant area south of the (Bergse) Maas river had been liberated, a small group of German soldier...
Monument
Richard Jung was born on 27 February 1911 in Reichenberg, Czech Republic. He worked as a shunter with the Czech Railways...
After the liberation of North Brabant, the River (Bergse) Maas became the new front line. In November 1944, the 1st Batt...
Even during quiet periods at the front, military training continued. In late 1944, the Canadian troops found an ideal sp...
On Tuesday 19 December 1944, in both Heusden and Elshout, Canadian servicemen organised a big party with a Father Christ...
In September 1944 the Allies launched Operation Market Garden with the goal of capturing several bridges in the Netherla...
Vector of Memory
At 20:00 on 17 September, the 2nd Parachute Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel John Frost reached the Rhine Bridge in Ar...
With Canadian troops approaching, members of the German 'Sprengkommando' were ready to blow up the Leeuwarden post offic...
Stories went around about Winando even before the war. The man, whose real name was Henk van Heusen, said he had many gi...
There was once a German boy who knew all about delicate things. His birthplace was Meißen, Germany’s pottery town. Karl-...
