1926 result(s)
Landmark
Sinah Heavy Anti-Aircraft (HAA) battery was positioned on this small common at Hayling Island. Sections of the former ba...
Story
His name was Werner Klemke. He got his baptism of fire at the front line in North Brabant. Just like every other German ...
‘I’m very far away, but my heart is back at home. With my wife, who is alone. All I have now is the memory of the fairy ...
A historic Roman prison, anti-fascists, fascist traitors and partisans were imprisoned there during the war. It thus bec...
Other
HM Landing Craft Tank (LCT) 7074, was a mark III Landing Craft Tank that took part in Operation Neptune in June 1944....
Stories went around about Winando even before the war. The man, whose real name was Henk van Heusen, said he had many gi...
The medical company of the Polish paratrooper brigade chose the Roman Catholic primary school as its emergency hospital....
On 22 April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights, situated about 70 km east from Berlin, were encircl...
Fortification
The Roquetoire bunker is located about ten kilometres from the special construction "Bauvorhaben 21" (La Coupole) in ...
Monument
Breskens was bombed on September, 11 1944. Using air strikes, the British Royal Air Force tried to prevent the retreat o...
In September 1944 the Allies launched Operation Market Garden with the goal of capturing several bridges in the Netherla...
On 16 April 1945, the Soviet forces started to encircle Berlin in a pincer movement. Five days later, the first Soviet u...
There was a ghostly atmosphere in Asten in the night of Wednesday 20 to Thursday 21 September 1944. British grenade fire...
“I was always compared to the other Hans”, said Hans van Alphen (1946) from Uden. During the bloody liberation of Braban...
Museum
Located on the ground floor of the Flipje and Streekmuseum Tiel, is the WW2 Information Centre Rivierengebied. The centr...
On 26 April 1945, Berlin Tempelhof Airport came under the control of Soviet combat troops led by General Vasily Chuikov....
To secure the strategic bridges captured earlier by airborne forces, the Allied ground troops of Operation Market Garden...
After the Allied break out from Normandy in August 1944 the German army had been in full retreat. With the capture of An...
In the night of 21 January 1943, the German occupiers raid and clear Het Apeldoornsche Bosch ('The Apeldoorn Forest'). C...
The German Kulmhof Death Camp in Chelmno operated over two periods: between 1941 and 1943, and between 1944 and 1945. Th...
This seemingly peaceful spot was a part of Saint-Raphaël that experienced several major wartime events. In 1943-1944, it...
This is the site of the national monument to the African Army, an obelisk with a flame of remembrance that is regularly ...
At the Milliomont stream near Renuâmont, an American Sherman tank nicknamed ‘Barracuda’ by its crew, was hit by enemy fi...
Woensdrecht was an important place for the Allies since it was the only land entrance to South-Beveland and Walcheren. I...