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Story
Roosteren was liberated on 30 September 1944. However, 40 members of the resistance and former soldiers from Roosteren a...
Operation Veritable was an Allied campaign aimed at driving the German army out of the Reichswald, a vast and dense fore...
Monument
When rumours of the liberation of Brussels reached Leopoldsburg, the occupiers began to retreat. So too in the K-blocks,...
Shortly after midnight on 6 June 1944, D-Day began with the landing of American and British airborne troops on French so...
Museum
The Memorial Museum of the Landing in Provence can be found in Toulon and was inaugurated in 1964 by General de Gaulle d...
The world-famous dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker performed here at Café van Lin in Overasselt on 4 and 5 Dece...
Fortification
The Salerno bunker is kocated on the Bellara hill, one of Salerno's most scenic points from which one can see almost all...
Audiospot
On the 19th of September 1944 the Allied advance on Nijmegen halted here. The bridges had to be captured (preferably und...
On Sunday the 17th of September 1944, the sky was brightly coloured. Hundreds of planes flew over and countless parachut...
After a week of fighting it became clear that Operation Market Garden had failed. At that point many British and Polish ...
Constructed by Nazi Germany, the Atlantikwall was a line of defence of more than 5000 kilometres in length to prevent an...
The National Memorial Arboretum is the centre of remembrance in the U.K. Here you can find the Normandy Campaign Memoria...
The lock between Dieren and Spankeren was where the locals celebrated the retreat of the last German soldiers. Bren carr...
Landmark
When, in November 1944, worn-out American units were forced to retreat from the village of Schmidt, they had to pass the...
The monument 'The Fallen Warrior' stands next to St Martin's Church. It is a memorial to the hundreds of victims who fel...
The Friedrichstraße Railway Bunker was built to protect railway passengers and had room for 1500 people. After the war i...
The medical aid bunker Nr. 374 in Simonskall was built in 1938. Here four medics could give emergency treatment to about...
RAF Scampton is perhaps the most famous RAF airfield in the UK. The airfield is located to the north of Lincoln and wa...
Cemetery
Catania War Cemetery is a Commonwealth cemetery in Catania on the eastern coast of Sicily. It contains graves of 2,135 s...
On 17 September 1944, two crewmembers of a downed American transport plane were captured in Wyler and moved to Kranenbur...
Battlefield
The Canadian soldiers of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division advance along the Hoendiep via Hoogkerk to Kostverloren. The...
Following the occupation of the Reichstag by Soviet troops on 1 May 1945, German defeat was imminent. On 2 May, Soviet i...
In November 1944 the Allies launched Operation Queen with the goal of crossing the Rur river and then pushing forward to...
Lager Wick Labour Camp was a labour camp built by the Organisation Todt in 1942 during the German Occupation of Jersey....