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Story
On September 3 1944, the Comité de Libération (Liberation Committee) took up residence at the town hall. It was formed b...
Landmark
Positioned to the southeast corner of Station 139, Thorpe Abbots, this was the location of the airfield's Technical S...
Battlefield
The advance through Zuid-Beveland, Operation Vitality, was aimed at reaching the Sloedam, after which the invasion of Wa...
Ponte dei Frati (Friars' Bridge), which connects the city to the hamlet of Guamo, was the scene of one of the most impor...
Monument
The Battle of Britain Memorial can be found at Capel-le Ferne on the coast of Kent, England. It features one central sta...
Villa Henraux, one of the most beautiful historic villas in Versilia, is sadly known because in the summer of 1944 it wa...
Audiospot
The diary of Rose Jakobs is gripping and enthralling. A young Jewish woman, who went into hiding with her family, first ...
You could call the action of the German frogmen here a genuine act of daring. Putting their own lives in danger, they at...
Silence, a deep, terrifying silence, which has become almost tangible, reigns around an abandoned Groninger Emmabrug and...
During the battle of Delfzijl, observation officer Captain Walker volunteers to search for a missing company of the Iris...
Museum
The museum recreates the Shoah during the battle of Cassino through an impressive interactive and immersive route. The r...
There was fierce German resistance on and around the bridges of Nijmegen. On the 20th of September 1944, the Allied mili...
Seizing the bridge over the Rhine in Arnhem, the key objective of Operation Market Garden, proved to be an impossible mi...
The Betuwe, the floodplain between the Waal and Rhine river, became the boundary between Allied and German territory aft...
In September 1944, the allied forces met with fierce German resistance near Elst while they were advancing towards Arnhe...
The small village of Abbega and the neighbouring hamlet of Abbegaasterketting hid dozens of people in hiding during the ...
Known locally as the land of wind and water, this region has great stretches of marshlands and rivers. If you head towar...
The first narrative museum in Italy, the MAR, which stands for Museo Audiovisivo della Resistenza (Audiovisual Museum of...
Operation Amherst was the code name for the airborne landings of some 700 French paratroopers. They were part of the Bri...
Bridges are of utmost importance for the allied advance. The Molenhook bridge, as the Americans refer to the old bridge ...
Autumn 1944: also known as the 'frontline period'. The immense American air landings of Operation Market Garden had mean...
The memorial was erected here in 2012 to commemorate the service of those who served in the Combined Operations Pilota...
Field Marshal Bernard Law ‘Monty’ Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, was a senior British Army Officer who ...
The general mobilisation turned out to be a huge intervention in the daily lives of almost all Dutch people. Obviously f...