1926 result(s)
Battlefield
After the Canadians of the South Saskwatchewan Regiment have crossed the Emma Bridge in Groningen on Sunday morning, Apr...
Landmark
The Island's power station, at Queen's Road, St Helier, was diesel-fulled. The shortage of diesel prompted the Organisat...
Story
On 11 September 1944, US troops reached Eupen. Most Nazi activists and many Germans had fled in the previous days. Never...
The Elsenborn military training ground was established for the Prussian Army in 1894, when the region was part of the Pr...
Museum
For the purpose of remembrance and warning Museum Huertgen Forest 1944 and in Peacetime (Museum Hürtgenwald 1944 und im ...
Bélian Abbey was founded in the 13th century at Mesvin, along what would later become the main road from Maubeuge to Mon...
In the weeks preceding the liberation of South Limburg, the German troops hastily built fortifications along the river G...
Monument
An impressive memorial recalls one of the most wrenching war events in Zuidlaren and the wider area. It's not known as t...
Audiospot
In the middle of January 1945, the fight for liberation broke out in the Rur region. After a sequence of ferocious battl...
The monument recalls two important moments in Dutch history: The May days of 1940 and the preparations for Operation Mar...
There is a war monument in Meeswijk, on the Belgian side of the ferry across the river Meuse near Berg aan de Maas. It ...
During WW2, the city of Roermond suffered greatly under the German occupation and the efforts of the Allies to liberate ...
in the early morning of October 26, the first units of the Scottish 156th Infantry Brigade landed on Amber Beach, just s...
At the end of the war, a unique story played out in the village Balgoij in the Netherlands. In the leading roles were th...
Anton van der Waals was hiding out as Joop van der Meer in a cottage in Midlaren. He had sent hundreds of resistance fig...
September 1944. As the liberation approached, some 5,000 French-speaking collaborators, including their leader Léon Degr...
On Tuesday 12 September 1944, men of the 117th regiment of the 30th American infantry division (Old Hickory) crossed the...
This Sherman, enthroned in front of the Mons Memorial Museum since August 2019, is the emblematic tank of the Liberation...
Cemetery
The necropolis contains 464 graves of French Army soldiers who, under the command of General de Lattre de Tassigny, land...
The mosaics on Liberty Square in Gennep were inspired by film images made by amateur filmmaker Jan Jetten from Gennep. T...
The abbey of Monte Cassino was founded in the 6th century by St. Benedict. During the Second World War it formed a key p...
The monument commemorates the Allied bombing of 28 April 1944 that was aimed at destroying the Porrettana railway bridge...
A light tank arrives bearing the white star: the Americans are here. This tank, arriving on rue Léon Save, quickly circl...
During the occupation of Leopoldsburg, the old cavalry blocks of the Belgian army no longer housed horses, but political...