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Monument
The National Memorial Arboretum is the centre of remembrance in the U.K. Here you can find the Normandy Campaign Memoria...
Museum
The Cabinet War Rooms, beneath London, were key places in the planning of Allied forces from 1940 onwards. It was here t...
Landmark
During the Second World War, the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway was used to deliver troops along the coast. The stat...
‘The D-Day Story, Portsmouth’ is the lead museum in the UK that tells the story of D-Day (Operation Neptune/Operation Ov...
At the first phase of the Second World War, the tunnels of Dover Castle housed the command centre of the great evacuatio...
As the Embarkation Area Headquarters for the Portsmouth sector during the D-Day campaign, Quay House was central to the ...
Cemetery
The Lorraine American Cemetery covers 113.5 acres and comprises 10,489 graves of American soldiers, most of whom were ki...
During the Second World War much of the Allied planning for operations was conducted in London. The plans for Operation ...
The Serret Museum in Saint-Amarin is located in a former administrative tribunal which was transformed into a military h...
Story
Dungeness, located in Kent on the south-east coast of England, became a key site in Operation Pluto. During this operati...
At the frontline of England’s defences for many centuries, Dover has often been subjected to attacks from foreign invade...
Audiospot
October 1944: As the occupying forces fired V1 and V2 rockets at the port of Antwerp, many of the flying bombs landed pr...
Autumn 1944: also known as the 'frontline period'. The immense American air landings of Operation Market Garden had mean...
Vector of Memory
September 1944: Operation Market Garden, the allied offensive, is underway. The paths of two glider pilots cross. They a...
The Battle of The White House was fought at the Dreyeroord Hotel in Oosterbeek during Operation Market Garden. English v...
The final years of the war are tough on the people of Huissen. Hundreds are killed and wounded during heavy allied bombi...
After the failure of the Battle of Arnhem, the Over-Betuwe region becomes the frontline. German commander Harmel turns D...
In 1941, Kruitwagen, owner of the Panoven brickworks, refuses to supply bricks to the Germans for the Atlantic Wall and ...
In March 1945, the Allies headed for Berlin. They crossed the River Rhine in a number of different places in Germany, bu...
The hamlet of De Horst near Groesbeek is just a stone's throw away from the German border. During the airborne landings ...
In September 1944, Hotel Sionshof found itself playing a brief yet pivotal role in the makings of world history when Cap...
After the failure of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, the Betuwe suffers difficult times. For weeks, villages ...
When the Allied advance came to a standstill in Arnhem during the failed Operation Market Garden of September 1944, the ...
In April 1945 the population of the Western part of the Netherlands was starving. The Allies decided to negotiate food a...
