TankChurchill AVRE Mk. IV Tank – Lion-sur-Mer, Normandy, FranceA Churchill Avre Mk. IV tank stands near the 41st Royal Marine Commando Monument. The AVRE or in … Posted July 22, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Pascal
CemeteriesCommonwealth War Graves, RAF 626 Squadron Lancaster ND952 – Theillay, FranceLancaster ND952 of RAF 626 Squadron was shot down during an air raid on railway yards near Vierzon, … Posted July 21, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Pascal
Bunkers & FortificationsStelling Den Oever – Afsluitdijk, the NetherlandsPosition or "Stelling" Den Oever was built between 1932 and 1936 on the North Holland side of the … Posted July 21, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Pascal
MonumentsOperation Amherst, Antoine Treis Memorial – Orvelte, the NetherlandsIn the morning of April Sunday the 8th, a SAS (Special Air Service - British Special Forces) unit … Posted July 20, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Pascal
Bunkers & FortificationsStelling Kornwerderzand – Afsluitdijk, the NetherlandsPosition Kornwerderzand was constructed between 1931 and 1936 and consisted of two lines of defense with a total … Posted July 16, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Pascal
CemeteriesCommonwealth War Graves, RAF 90 Sqdn – General Cemetery Montfoort, Utrecht, the NetherlandsOn the general cemetery at the village of Montfoort, Utrecht, the Netherlands lie the Commonwealth War Graves of … Posted July 14, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Pascal
Transport ShipLiberty Ship SS Jeremiah O’Brien – San Francisco California United States of AmericaThe construction of a Liberty Ship took about 240 days, later on, when the construction yards specialised and … Posted June 19, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Patrick
BattleshipUSS Missouri BB-63 Iowa Class Battleship – Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States of AmericaAt the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor lies USS battleship Missouri which hosted the surrender of Imperial … Posted June 18, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Patrick
Personal Stories4th Battalion Coldstream Guards in WW2This photograph is from the private collection of Don Roper. His father Herbert Hughes Roper or Bert for … Posted June 15, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Patrick
MuseumsKazemattenmuseum Kornwerderzand – Afsluitdijk, the NetherlandsDuring the construction of the 32 km long and 90m wide Afsluitdijk, a number of man made islands … Posted April 5, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Pascal
CemeteriesSection 41 of Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Jackson Mississippi – USADuring World War 2 there was a peaceful invasion of Jackson, Mississippi, for two years by nearly a … Posted March 2, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Pascal
Labour & Concentration CampsKZ-Arbeitslager Karlshagen I – Usedom, Mecklenburg – Vorpommern, GermanyTo compensate the growing shortage of laborers to work in the Peenemünde test facilities, forced laborers were put … Posted August 20, 2014 (updated January 6, 2026) by Pascal
CemeteriesCanadian War Cemetery Bretteville-Sur-Laize, Normandy – FranceMost of the fallen soldiers on this field of honour fell during later stages of the Battle for … Posted August 17, 2014 (updated January 6, 2026) by Patrick
CemeteriesThe only Polish War Cemetery in France, near Grainville–Langannerie & UrvilleThe only Polish cemetery in France lies on the crossroad from Grainville–Langannerie to Urville, kilometres south of Caen. … Posted July 25, 2014 (updated January 5, 2026) by Patrick
MonumentsAktion T4 – Tiergartenstrasse 4, Berlin, GermanyIn October 1939, Hitler signed an euthanesia decree authorizing Phillipp Bouhler and Karl Brandt to carry out a … Posted July 16, 2014 (updated January 5, 2026) by Pascal
MuseumsTankograd, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in Oblast Chelyabinsk, RussiaЧелябинский тракторный завод (ЧТЗ) or phonetic "Chelyabinskiy traktornyy zavod" (ChTZ), is the full name of the tractor plant … Posted July 10, 2014 (updated January 5, 2026) by Patrick
CemeteriesCommonwealth Cemetery Arnhem , Operation Market Garden in Oosterbeek – The NetherlandsIn Arnhem, close to the Hartenstein Airborne Museum, is a Commonwealth Cemetery with fallen soldiers from operation Market … Posted July 7, 2014 (updated January 5, 2026) by Patrick
Personal StoriesJan van Driel – How a Forced Labourer ended up in Sweden during 1944A few years after the outbreak of the second world war, probably around 1943, the Germans ordered all … Posted July 3, 2014 (updated January 5, 2026) by Patrick
