1922 result(s)
Musée
Major Jean Prosper Gautier was the commander of the Squadron of the Royal Canadian Dragoons that entered Dokkum with its...
Lieu d'intêret
On the day of the Dokkum’s liberation, a deadly tragedy unfolded at the southern access bridge. The Allies were approach...
The liberation of northeast Friesland was not achieved without a struggle. The Dutch Domestic Armed Forces (NBS) and Can...
Monument
On 22 January 1945, members of the 'Sipo und SD' killed twenty men on the Woudweg in Dokkum. It was the largest executio...
Audiospot
When the Allied advance came to a standstill in Arnhem during the failed Operation Market Garden of September 1944, the ...
Histoire
Near Haskerhorne, a plane dropped valuable cargo on the night of 1 to 2 November 1944: two secret agents, Peter Tazelaar...
In the evening of 14 April, a Royal Canadian Dragoons patrol reached the area around the village which is now called Dam...
"That morning lasted longer than ever. I did nothing but stand at the window and talk. Down in the park a man told me th...
After the Allied airborne troops were defeated at Arnhem in September 1944, it took until March 1945 for the Allies to g...
La piste d’atterrissage Ost-West-Achse était située sur l’actuelle avenue Straße des 17. Juni. Durant les derniers jours...
The Irish Regiment of Canada fought in Gelderland in April and then spent a short time in Friesland to guard the Zuiderz...
On Sunday 15 April 1945 - the day that is considered Friesland's liberation day - here in Kiesterzijl, German gunfire ki...
After the German occupation of Rome, the soldiers who remained in the capital tried to organise themselves, forming the ...
Le Musée de la Poste polonaise de Dantzig a ouvert ses portes le 1er septembre 1979, jour du 40e anniversaire du début d...
L'Opération Véritable s'inscrivait dans le cadre d'un mouvement de prise en tenaille initié par les Alliés et destiné à ...
Cimetière
The cemetery is the largest created in Italy by the German Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge organisation. It stan...
The South African war cemetery hosts the bodies of 503 soldiers who fell during operations on the Gothic Line....
On the night of 13-14 April 1945, a skûtsje (a sailing ship) was sunk by the resistance here, right in front of the bri...
Entre septembre 1944 et février 1945, les soldats américains et allemands s'affrontent directement dans les blockhaus de...
Approximately 6500 aeroplanes crashed in the Netherlands during the Second World War. 400 of these crashed in the Achter...
Siebrand Paapst (1928-2016) is taken hostage by the Germans on April 27, 1945. Together with 25 villagers he spends a fr...
De nombreux soldats amérindiens ont joué un rôle important dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des milliers d'entre eux aya...
Le Musée des Alliés retrace l'histoire unique de l'Allemagne et de sa capitale, depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondi...
The Canadians reach the Bolwerk bridge in Appingedam on Monday 23 April 1945. The shooting stopped for a while. Three Ge...