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Fortification
Fort Regent was built on Mont de la Ville (Town Hill), overlooking St Helier, in the early 19th century. During the Germ...
Battlefield
The small village of Foy, just four kilometres to the north of Bastogne on the road to Houffalize, was occupied by the G...
Monument
Walcheren was of great strategic importance due to its location at the mouth of the Scheldt Estuary and the strong Atlan...
The monument to General Patton, under whose command the American army liberated Pilsen, was unveiled on May 1, 2015. Its...
Museum
Camp Vught, the former Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch, was the only SS concentration camp outside Nazi Germany and th...
Cemetery
The Beach Head War Cemetery near Anzio is a Commonwealth Cemetery of the Second World War. In all, the cemetery contains...
The Eperlecques Bunker is a so-called special construction located in the Eperlecques forest. Code-named Kraftwerk Nord ...
In the center of the small town of Beveren there is a bust of general Stanislaw Maczek. It reminds the citizens of the c...
The Allied landing at Salerno on 9 September 1943 coincided with the proclamation of the armistice of the Kingdom of Ita...
Story
During World War II, more than 6,000 aircraft crashed or made an emergency landing in the Netherlands. The flight routes...
Landmark
The Flakturm Tiergarten was the first Flakturm complex, which was used for protection against air raids, but also a mili...
Jindřich Křečan commemorative plaque and Roosevelt Bridge (Rooseveltův most) honour two individuals of World War II: Jin...
In 2017 three memorial plaques were unveiled in honor of the Pilsen resistance fighters at three houses on Čechova Stree...
On 13 October 1943 the Kingdom of Italy declared war on Germany and was recognized as a cobelligerent by the Allies. The...
The New Forest National Park, on the south coast of England, was an important base of operations in the build up to D-Da...
During Liberation Day celebrations in May 2012, a monument to Czechoslovak soldiers who fought on the Western Front in 1...
As the Embarkation Area Headquarters for the Portsmouth sector during the D-Day campaign, Quay House was central to the ...
On 28 August 1944, 21 FFI (French Forces of the Interior), who were entrenched in the ruins of Rimberlieu Castle were at...
On Saturday 14 April 1945, the Canadians advanced via the Parkweg to the main station and in the late afternoon the enti...
After the Second World War the former deputy commander of the Military Transit Depot, captain Dąbrowski, initiated the b...
Audiospot
In March 1945, the hamlet of Woeste Hoeve was caught centre stage in a horrific and bloody drama. The highest-ranking Du...
Hollybrook Cemetery, Southampton, contains two Commonwealth War Graves Commission plots and a memorial. The cemetery...
The memorial plaque at the confluence of the Mže and Radbůza rivers commemorates the day of the first free radio broadca...
At the frontline of England’s defences for many centuries, Dover has often been subjected to attacks from foreign invade...