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The Second World War has left its marks on the world. LandmarkScout looks for and visits these places and shares what it finds on this blog.

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, Last update: March 29 2018,
Hidden in a small forest at West-Souburg, heavy Batterie Nord "Stützpunkt Fichte" was a field position of the Kriegsmarine. The main armament of the position were 105mm SK C/32...
, Last update: March 29 2018,
National Filling Factory No.1, also known as Barnbow, was a First World War munitions factory located at Cross Gates in Leeds. The site covered over 400 acres. When war...
, Last update: December 17 2017,
This is the only large WW2 cemetery for fallen American soldiers on Dutch soil. Most of these victims fell during Operation Marketgarden, the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of...
, Last update: December 7 2017,
In this quiet graveyard of the Parish Church of St Martin's Bladon, England, lies the grave of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965).
, Last update: November 24 2017,
Stützpunkt Von Kleist was a Heeresbatterie of the VB Vlissingen. The battery had a fire support role defending the Landesfront of the Verteidigungsbereich of Flushing.
, Last update: November 21 2017,
Flushing was of great strategic importance during WW2. As part of the Atlantikwall, the Germans fortified the city and the surrounding area for it's defense. To prevent an attack...
, Last update: November 11 2017,
73 years ago to this very day on the 14th of November 1944. Halifax bomber LK844 part of the 51 squadron of the R.A.F took off from Snaith airfield...
, Last update: October 27 2017,
With great pride we can announce that the first LandmarkScout book is out! After working on this project almost continuously for the past two and a half years, we...
, Last update: October 21 2017,
In the early morning of 1st November 1944, the town of Flushing is rudely awakened by an extensive artillery bombardment. Under the cover of this preliminary attack, the first...
, Last update: August 27 2017,
On the main square in Bastogne is a bust of General Mc Auliffe. He and his American troops withstood the brunt of the German attack on Bastogne during the...
, Last update: September 26 2017,
In the photograph, I am wearing my much-vaunted black Landmark Scout t-shirt, standing at location 30.327396, -86.166762, or rather, Grayton Beach, Florida, looking seaward 225 miles away toward location...
, Last update: August 14 2017,
Geldern was bombed several times during World War Two, it was a target for bombing raids during the last months in 1944 and bombed on 14 February in 1945....
, Last update: September 19 2017,
After the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force it was used by the German Kriegsmarine and was now part of the Atlantic Wall.
, Last update: August 2 2017,
Near the town of Hazebrouck in France is a World War One cemetery called La Kreule. La Creule was once a small town on its own but today Hazebrouck...
, Last update: July 6 2017,
To write an article about a museum which can't be visited any longer seems odd but the museum had a great and huge cellar dedicated to the Battle for...
, Last update: August 27 2017,
The Cenotaph was erected in 1924, before World War Two, and was designed by Vernon March to commemorate the South African fallen soldiers in World War One.
, Last update: August 26 2017,
On 14 October 1944, two Generals came to pick up Erwin Rommel at his home. Rommel said farewell to his wife and son, got into the car with the...
, Last update: August 13 2017,
During the liberation of Valkenburg in the southern tip of the Netherlands, street fighting caused a Sherman M4 tank to fire its gun in close quarter combat.
, Last update: July 12 2017,
Like many bigger towns in Russia the Second World War or Great Patriotic War as they revere to it, are Victory Parks where you find memorials, probably some guns...
, Last update: August 14 2017,
A German PaK 40 Anti Tank Gun in front of the Municipal Hall in the town of Valkenburg. It is a remembrance to the liberation of the town during...
, Last update: August 26 2017,
Almost everyone with the slightest interest in WW2 is likely to know Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his famous nickname "The Desert Fox" or "Wüstenfuchs". Erwin Rommel was one of...
, Last update: August 4 2017,
In this building situated in the Upper-Austrian city of Braunau am Inn (then the Austria-Hungarian empire) Adolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889.
, Last update: July 12 2017,
The German War Cemetery in Lommel is the largest WWII German Military Cemetery outside of Germany in Western Europe. The cemetery is the final resting place for a little...
, Last update: July 17 2017,
From May the 26th until the 4th of June in 1940 the British fought fiercely to evacuate their Expeditionary Force together with French, Belgium, Dutch, Poles, Czechs and other...

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