Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O’Brien – San Francisco California United States of America The construction of a Liberty Ship took about 240 days, later on, when the construction yards specialised and … Posted June 19, 2015 (updated February 5, 2023) by Patrick
USS Missouri BB-63 Iowa Class Battleship – Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States of America At the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor lies USS battleship Missouri which hosted the surrender of Imperial … Posted June 18, 2015 (updated February 5, 2023) by Patrick
Tank Driver Bob Dare recounts the fate of the Jackal in the Battle of Overloon, Netherlands John Collier was a wireless operator/ loader on Cheetah of Number 2 Squadron of the Coldstream Guards of … Posted June 15, 2015 (updated February 18, 2024) by Patrick
4th Battalion Coldstream Guards in WW2 This photograph is from the private collection of Don Roper. His father Herbert Hughes Roper or Bert for … Posted June 15, 2015 (updated May 26, 2022) by Patrick
Kazemattenmuseum Kornwerderzand – Afsluitdijk, the Netherlands During the construction of the 32 km long and 90m wide Afsluitdijk, a number of man made islands … Posted April 5, 2015 (updated May 13, 2024) by Pascal
Section 41 of Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Jackson Mississippi – USA During World War 2 there was a peaceful invasion of Jackson, Mississippi, for two years by nearly a … Posted March 2, 2015 (updated May 20, 2024) by Pascal
The John Frost Bridge, Operation Market Garden in Arnhem – Netherlands [...]Read More... Posted September 9, 2014 (updated September 12, 2024) by Patrick
The John S. Thompson Bridge, the 11th bridge of Operation Market Garden near Grave in the Netherlands The bridge over the river Meuse was one of the objectives of Operation Market Garden in September 1944. … Posted September 7, 2014 (updated May 13, 2024) by Patrick
KZ-Arbeitslager Karlshagen I – Usedom, Mecklenburg – Vorpommern, Germany To compensate the growing shortage of laborers to work in the Peenemünde test facilities, forced laborers were put … Posted August 20, 2014 (updated May 14, 2024) by Pascal
Canadian War Cemetery Bretteville-Sur-Laize, Normandy – France Most of the fallen soldiers on this field of honour fell during later stages of the Battle for … Posted August 17, 2014 (updated May 14, 2024) by Patrick
Maisy Battery – Widerstandsnest 83, Grandcamp-Maisy, Normandy – France Battery Maisy or Widerstandsnest 83 was a coastal fortification on the Atlantic Wall near the French town of … Posted August 13, 2014 (updated April 14, 2024) by Patrick
The Massacre at Oradour sur Glane Memorial Center – Limousin, France Some villagers had barely seen a German soldier from up close and it even seemed like the Second … Posted August 9, 2014 (updated June 16, 2024) by Pascal
The only Polish Cemetery in France, near Grainville–Langannerie & Urville The only Polish cemetery in France lies on the crossroad from Grainville–Langannerie to Urville, kilometres south of Caen. … Posted July 25, 2014 (updated April 6, 2024) by Patrick
Aktion T4 – Tiergartenstrasse 4, Berlin, Germany In October 1939, Hitler signed an euthanesia decree authorizing Phillipp Bouhler and Karl Brandt to carry out a … Posted July 16, 2014 (updated February 14, 2022) by Pascal
Hotel Hartenstein, Airborne Headquarters during Operation Market Garden, Oosterbeek near Arnhem – The Netherlands There had been reports of bombardments on the cities of Ede, Arnhem, airfields, and anti aircraft positions, but … Posted July 12, 2014 (updated September 12, 2024) by Patrick
Tankograd, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in Oblast Chelyabinsk, Russia Челябинский тракторный завод (ЧТЗ) or phonetic "Chelyabinskiy traktornyy zavod" (ChTZ), is the full name of the tractor plant … Posted July 10, 2014 (updated April 26, 2024) by Patrick
Commonwealth Cemetery Arnhem , Operation Market Garden in Oosterbeek – The Netherlands In Arnhem, close to the Hartenstein Airborne Museum, is a Commonwealth Cemetery with fallen soldiers from operation Market … Posted July 7, 2014 (updated March 27, 2023) by Patrick
Jan van Driel – How a Forced Labourer ended up in Sweden during 1944 A few years after the outbreak of the second world war, probably around 1943, the Germans ordered all … Posted July 3, 2014 (updated February 18, 2024) by Patrick
