1926 result(s)
Story
The Germans position their command post in the presbytery of Tjamsweer. From here they have an excellent connection with...
Fortification
The Flakturm Friedrichshain was a flak tower complex, which was used for protection against air raids, but also a milita...
The bunkers at Dishoek played a crucial role during the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. After the fall of Antwerp, Hitler...
Museum
The Sainte-Mère-Église museum was inaugurated in 1964 right where American paratroopers were involved in fierce battles ...
With the German offensive in the Ardennes beginning on the 16 December 1944, the German 5th Panzer Army pushed through t...
Monument
The Sachsenhausen concentration camp was built in the summer of 1936 in Oranienburg, in the region of Brandenburg, Germa...
The German Naval Museum tells the history of the naval town of Wilhelmshaven, Germany from 1869 and including both World...
Cemetery
The national necropolis of Luynes, located a few kilometres south of Aix-en-Provence, was built from 1966 to 1969. Burie...
The 100th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) arrived here on 9 June 1943. Formerly RAF (R...
The Remembrance Museum in Borgo a Mozzano (about 20 km from Lucca) preserves war relics, posters and documents from WWII...
In September of 1943, Curtis LeMay became the first commander of the newly formed US 3rd Air Division that was based ...
The Camp des Milles Memorial in Aix-en-Provence opened in 1993 and serves as both a museum and a place of memory. The Me...
Landmark
During the Second World War much of the Allied planning for operations was conducted in London. The plans for Operation ...
The small village of Buriton in Hampshire rallied together upon the outbreak of the Second World War, hosting evacuees a...
The last major battle of the Normandy campaign was fought in August 1944 in the so called Falaise-Argentan pocket, where...
Located at the bottom of two slopes, the Ruquet Valley was one of the four natural exits from Omaha Beach that allowe...
The Wöbbelin memorial sites recall the history of the concentration camp near Wöbbelin, 190 km northwest of Berlin. The ...
The museum of the liberation of the Colmar Pocket, full of authentic artefacts both big and small, tells the story of a ...
The Atlantic Wall Museum is located inside the former German headquarters acting as fire control for the batteries cover...
The Mons Memorial Museum opened in the spring of 2015. An area of 1,200 m² is devoted to the permanent exhibition, which...
Before the airborne troops land at Arnhem, Nijmegen and Eindhoven and the British 2nd Army advances from the Belgian-Dut...
On Tuesday morning 19 September, five Dutch civilians are led into the depot of Van Gend en Loos at Bakkerstraat 63-64 b...
The company of lieutenant Victor Dover has been ordered to take the German Ortskommandantur, but gets stuck at the Utrec...
During the Second World War, the former Mansfield Hotel was used as accommodation for female Naval staff. It was here ...