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On the night of 3 to 4 October, the shelling lasted almost 10 hours. Dozens of civilians did not survive the bombing. It...
#Storia
The battle erupted in full force. For a fortnight, both camps shot back and forth. Kalmthout was heavily bombed. Many ho...
House to house, body to body. On 25 September 1944 Canadian liberators crossed the Dessel-Turnhout-Schoten canal near Ri...
On October third 1944, Allied troops took Brasschaat. After liberation, a gruesome discovery was made at the Maria-ter-H...
The liberators were coming. On 4 September, British tanks rushed towards Boom. Their mission: to liberate Antwerp and th...
Brickworks battlesOn 24 September, the battle erupted. With the help of local resistance fighters, the 49th Infantry Div...
On 24 September, troops of the British 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division advanced from Postel, across the northern canal ba...
The sparsely built-up area around Kasterlee was home to a lot of German anti-aircraft artillery during World War II. The...
The end of the war was already in sight in Heist-op-den-Berg in August 1944. On 29 August, the women and children of the...
Antwerp had been liberated, but the Germans were entrenched behind the Albert Canal. The Command of the British 50th Nor...
On 14 September 1944, the 15th Scottish Infantry Division managed to cross the Bocholt-Herentals Canal and form a small ...
On March 6 1945, at around 10 pm, a German flying bomb struck Heuvelplein. The projectile came down on the corner of Nie...
In September 1944, projectiles from Germans and British crossed each other for days over the Kempisch Kanaal at Mol-Donk...
During World War II, the Nazis used the Dossin Barracks as an assembly camp for nearly 26,000 Jews, Roma and Sinti. Plan...
In the final months before liberation, several aircraft crashed near Gierle. On 9 May 1944, a US B-24 bomber crashed at ...
From 3 September 1944, the Germans began the retreat. They claimed everything with wheels, from bicycles to farm carts. ...
L’ultima offensiva tedesca Nel dicembre 1944, la Wehrmacht colse di sorpresa l’alto comando alleato, lanciando un’offens...
A seguito dell’invasione dell’Unione Sovietica e dell’entrata in guerra degli Stati Uniti a fianco della Gran Bretagna, ...
La chiave per la liberazione dell’Europa nord – occidentale Aspramente combattuta tra gli emblematici sbarchi del 6 giug...
Dal 1943 al 1945 l’82ª Divisione aviotrasportata dell’Esercito degli Stati Uniti fu impiegata nei maggiori teatri operat...
#Biografia
Il giorno più lungo La data del 6 giugno 1944 è universalmente riconosciuta come il D–Day, per indicare l’inizio dello s...
La rapida avanzata Il 2 settembre 1944 le truppe alleate attraversarono il confine belga in diversi punti. In dieci gior...
L’ultima grande offensiva nel teatro europea della seconda guerra mondiale La battaglia di Berlino fu l’ultima battaglia...
Il ritorno alla libertà e alla sovranità nazionale La liberazione di Parigi non era un obiettivo prioritario per gli All...
