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Cemetery
Immediately after the Netherlands surrendered, a cemetery was laid out at the battle site for both Dutch and German mili...
Located next to National War Cemetery Loenen is the National Veterans Cemetery. At this impressive site, military person...
Museum
Located on the ground floor of the Flipje and Streekmuseum Tiel, is the WW2 Information Centre Rivierengebied. The centr...
Landmark
RAF Barkston Heath was established in 1936 as a satellite station of RAF Cranwell. It is located to the southwest of t...
RAF Caistor opened in 1941. The airfield is located to the west of Caistor village on North Kelsey Moor Road. ...
Monument
'Bitter Tears' is a literal speaking monument. It was placed on the wall of Tiel's former synagogue in 1996. The monumen...
The railway bridge between Geldermalsen and Tricht forms the connection across the river Linge and is located on the Utr...
During the outbreak of the Second World War, the Royal Military Police had over 1,200 professional personnel. A quarter ...
The monument commemorates the fusillade that took place in Tiel on 24 December 1944. The monument is located on the site...
In the 1930s, Anton Mussert's National Socialist Movement (NSB) gained followers in the Gelderland Rivierenland area. Bl...
Story
In the predominantly Reformed river area, Reformed congregations gave permission to Catholic evacuees to hold mass in th...
RAF East Kirkby opened in August 1943 as a class ‘A’ Bomber airfield. It is located to the east of the village with th...
One of the main objectives of Operation Market Garden was to capture the two bridges across the Waal river in Nijmegen. ...
RAF Dunholme Lodge opened in May 1943 and was located to the west of Dunholme village....
As part of the RAF’s expansion plan, RAF Coningsby opened for bombers in November 1940. It is located to the south of ...
RAF Cranwell is a well-known airfield and is home to the RAF Officer Training College. It is situated to the west of t...
Fortification
There are 3 river casemates in Lent: Lent-West (near the railway track), Lent-Middle (at the access ramp to the road bri...
It comes as no surprise that there was a roadblock on the north bank of the Nijmegen Waal bridge, but nobody thought of ...
Royal Naval Hospital Haslar was designated as a ‘Ports Hospital’ for Operation Overlord. The medical staff here expect...
Southampton Common was used as a marshalling camp in the designated marshalling area ‘A’, and local residents played a v...
The Royal Naval Hospital Haslar was a key site for the treatment of soldiers returning from Normandy, injured in action ...
Buren General Cemetery houses seven Commonwealth airmen of No 102 Squadron RAF, killed on 17 June 1944. Their Halifax bo...
As a neutral country, due to the greatly increased threat of war in 1939, the Netherlands took the inevitable decision t...
