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Story
On 14 June 1944, the 15th Scottish Infantry Division landed in Normandy on Sword Beach. On 26 June they fought on the fr...
In the early hours of D-Day, the British 6th Airborne Division was dropped behind the German coastal defences. Its missi...
Monument
The sign commemorates three Waal crossers who helped people get across the river from occupied Tiel to a liberated area....
Audiospot
On March the 1st 1945, the Allies liberate Venlo. The Americans immediately change the name of ‘Venlo Airfield’ to ‘Yank...
Cemetery
The Vossenack Cemetery was constructed on a strategic site, Hill 470, by the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deu...
Mont-de-Huisnes German war cemetery is located within a 30-metre high mound, one kilometre north of the small commun...
The Soviet-Russian Second World War Cemetery Simmerath-Rurberg holds the remains 2.322 Soviet citizens. Fifty-five of th...
In late March 1945, the First Canadian Army (General Crerar) was on the eve of the liberation of the eastern and norther...
Landmark
The Clay Headquarters compound was built for the German Air Force before the Second World War. The U.S. Military Governm...
During the autumn and winter of 1944/45, a long and bloody battle took place in the Huertgen Forest. 3.001 mostly German...
The Halbe Forest Cemetery is one of the largest wartime cemeteries in Germany. More than 40.000 people died in this area...
During the month of November 1944 fighting between American and German soldiers took place inside the church of Vossenac...
How many soldiers died is not known; there were some 10.000 German and 30.000 American dead in the Huertgen Forest battl...
The cemetery at Bény-sur-Mer, located a few miles from Juno Beach, is one of two Canadian military cemeteries in Normand...
As soon as the news of the D-Day landings in Normandy was heard, the head of the Caen Gestapo decided to execute all All...
The Royal Netherlands Princess Irene Brigade landed in Arromanches on 8 August 1944. Attached to the 6th British Airborn...
With nearly 4000 British soldiers buried here, the Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest British military cemetery of the S...
The former town hall of Bocholtz features a plaque with the names of eleven inhabitants who lost their lives during the ...
The monument was erected in honour of the British Suffolk Regiment that liberated Weert on 22 September 1944....
Only seconds passed between the continuous and prolonged hissing of the falling bombs and the subsequent explosion, yet ...
Museum
The Berlin Story Bunker was built as the Anhalter Hochbunker in 1942 for protection of the residents and railroad passen...
The Führerbunker was a part of a bunker complex for Adolf Hitler, which he used as his headquarters in the last months o...
Fortification
In 1942, Toorenvliedt was set up as divisional headquarters for the German units on Walcheren and the Bevelanden. It was...
Shortly after the Allied airborne landings near Arnhem and Nijmegen on Sunday 17 September 1944 (part of Operation Marke...