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Museum
Opened in 2002 and located at Salford Quays in Greater Manchester, IWM North is one of the five branches of the Imperial...
Story
With the arrival of the Canadian Allies, liberation was approaching. On Sunday 8 April 1945, the Canadian Allies set up ...
Audiospot
On September 17, 1944, the British XXXth Army Corps departs from here to enter the Netherlands. The bridge does not fall...
Cemetery
The Haaren Jewish Cemetery was built in 1839, and was completely destroyed in 1938 a few days after the November pogro...
The La Cambe military cemetery is located only a few kilometres from Omaha Beach on the French Atlantic coast. On 6 Ju...
During the war, the Veerman Hotel/pub/restaurant in Wijhe is very well-known. Locals play billiards, do gymnastics, enjo...
On the 1st of October 1944, the 1st Polish Armoured Division enters the Netherlands to the south of Baarle-Nassau. But i...
Monument
Richard Jung was born on 27 February 1911 in Reichenberg, Czech Republic. He worked as a shunter with the Czech Railways...
A tall Cross of Honour once stood on the deserted Peel. It marked the spot where a bomber crashed on the 7th of February...
In May 1944, the British 50th Infantry Division landed here at Hayling Island beach front as part of Exercise Fabius I...
On 1 November 1944, the island of North Beveland was liberated by the Canadians. Schouwen-Duiveland is still occupied at...
The American 30th Infantry Division reach the Netherlands on 12 September 1944, and liberate Maastricht. They turn to th...
On 8 April 1945, an aerial bombardment of a train at Meppel station kills dozens of people, including travellers of Germ...
On 2 May 2015, this monument was unveiled here for the Frisian Canadian soldier, Gaele Visser, who was born in Haskerhor...
On 11 June 1944, a group of seven resistance fighters from the former Pas-de-Calais region, on their way to a maquis (a ...
On the afternoon of 12 September 1944, the small municipality of Roetgen, located about 20 kilometres southeast of Aac...
On September the 17th 1944, Veghel celebrates the liberation. American paratroopers have control of the bridges andare ...
On 2 September 1944, 36 civilians were executed by retreating German troops in the hamlets of Gard and La Junière (locat...
Home to an extensive collection of original uniforms, weapons, artefacts, and scale models, the Canada-Poland War Museum...
Venray War Cemetery is a Commonwealth war grave in Venray. 692 soldiers who died during the period from October 1944 to ...
Fortification
Located near the Dutch border in Horbach, a district of Aachen, are tank traps that were once part of the Westwall. Co...
The Kazemattenmuseum (Casemate Museum) in Kornwerderzand is made out of seven casemates. These bunkers helped the Dutch ...
Battlefield
Camps C18, C19, C20 & C21, Southampton Common were positioned around the northern end of the common. The marshalling a...
‘Operation Market Garden’ was the Allied attempt to defeat the Germans as quickly as possible and put an end to the war....
