1942 result(s)
Musée
The museum of the ‘Cité Martyre’ of Wiltz is located in the Old Castle and deals extensively with the dramatic events ...
Destroyed by tank fire on 17 December 1944, the castle of Clerf was renovated after the war. It now houses an authentic ...
Audiospot
In the autumn of 1944, Operation Market Garden became bogged down in the swampy fields of the Betuwe and at many locatio...
Monument
The seven-metre-high monument 'The Wing' was unveiled in 2014. It is a steel duplicate of a wing of a US warplane contai...
Histoire
After the failure of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, the Allies wanted to advance towards Arnhem via the Betu...
The Landing Museum is the main place of memory of the Second World War in Sicily. A rich exhibition itinerary, frequen...
This plaque, inaugurated in 1946, commemorates the most serious massacre of civilians by the German forces in Sicily, an...
Cimetière
The Commonwealth Cemetery 3km from Syracuse houses over 1000 victims of the first days of the Sicily landings. ...
The cemetery in Motta Sant'Anastasia, in the province of Catania, is home to over 4,500 German soldiers who fell durin...
Autre
This plaque, unveiled in 2012, commemorates the victims of the massacre of prisoners perpetrated by the American force...
Robert Capa was one of the most important reporters of the 20th century. The Troina Museum, opened in 2021, exhibits h...
The Licata Landing Documentation Centre, promoted by the Associazione Memento in collaboration with the local Archaeol...
Fortification
Fort Pannerden, built between 1869 and 1872, was the easternmost fort of the historical New Dutch Waterline. During Worl...
In October 1944 a combat incident took place which involved Bill Call, a Lieutenant in the US Parachute Infantry Regimen...
The Evacuation Monument in Angeren commemorates the citizens who experienced the evacuation and all those who died in or...
Operation Market Garden ended on 26 September 1944 with the evacuation from Oosterbeek of the 1st Airborne Division. Ar...
During Operation Market Garden, the Allies failed to capture the Arnhem Rhine Bridge. Their advance ran aground in the O...
On the Rijndijk near Doornenburg, opposite Restaurant Rijnzicht, stands a bronze statue of a woman fleeing with her four...
Augusta has been an important naval base since 1934. The Museum, established in 1986 and refurbished in 2012, traces t...
The beaches of Pachino, on the south-eastern tip of Sicily, saw the first landing of Operation Husky with the landing of...
Lieu d'intêret
During the Sicily landings, the headquarters of the command of the VI Italian Army and the FF.AA (Armed Forces) of Sic...
The final years of the war are tough on the people of Huissen. Hundreds are killed and wounded during heavy allied bombi...