1926 result(s)
Story
‘Operation Market Garden’ was the Allied attempt to defeat the Germans as quickly as possible and put an end to the war....
Monument
The Casemate of Aschenbach in Uffheim is an interval infantry casemate of the Maginot Line, composed of two firing chamb...
Near Moerstraten lies the oldest monument commemorating fallen Canadian servicemen in the Netherlands. The initiative fo...
Audiospot
November 1944. American troops fight to no end in the Hürtgen Forest, in impenetrable woods and incessant rain, facing h...
Battlefield
Willemstad, a centuries-old fortified town, proved a tough nut to crack for the Allies in November 1944. A British divis...
The noise of war had approached the West Brabant village of Dinteloord in the first days of November 1944. It stopped at...
"The name Woensdrecht alone sends shivers down the spines of veterans of the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division." These are ...
The area around the current roundabout in Hoogerheide was the scene of fierce street fighting between Canadian soldiers ...
By mid-January 1945, units of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division had been staying along the Meuse front for another two ...
While German troops were withdrawing to new positions across the entire front in the West Brabant region in late October...
During the Second World War, Milsbeek suffered a relatively high number of civilian casualties. Most fell when the vill...
Cemetery
The Zuydcoote National Necropolis has been in existence since 1922, and brings together soldiers from the First World Wa...
Fortification
The Atlantikwall Raversyde in Oostende, Belgium features over 60 bunkers, observation posts and artillery positions of t...
Museum
The Memorial Museum of the Maginot Line of the Rhine, located in Marckolsheim, commemorates the fierce fighting of 15, 1...
The Dunkirk Memorial honours the memory of the 4,528 soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force from 110 different unit...
After the battle was won in Normandy, the 4th Canadian Armoured Division began its long march into Holland. In late Octo...
Liberating the inner city of Bergen op Zoom proved to be an easy task for the 4th Canadian Armoured Division. The comple...
On Sunday 15 April around 1:30 PM, a large open truck will head for the Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat. The German army vehic...
An unknown page in the military history of the Canadian Army are the serious violent crimes committed by Canadians in t...
Two families who were members of the Czech Resistance lived in this building; the Král family and the Hrdlička family....
It was in this building that the Král family lived; Václav Král, his wife Pavla Králova, and their daughter, Helena Král...
The Biesbosch Museum Island tells the unique story of the historical development of the Biesbosch. Visitors discover the...
From 1935 to 1945 the EL-DE House was the headquarters of the Gestapo of Cologne, Germany. The documentation centre was ...
The village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne, France became the scene of a Nazi war-crime on June 10, 1944. Soldiers...