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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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John Collier was a wireless operator/ loader on Cheetah of Number 2 Squadron of the Coldstream Guards of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade. John addressed LandmarkScout after reading the...
, Last update: June 16 2015,
This photograph is from the private collection of Don Roper. His father Herbert Hughes Roper or Bert for short was Squadron Sergeant Major of three squadron Coldstream Guards, from...
, Last update: January 6 2016,
During the construction of the 32 km long and 90m wide Afsluitdijk, a number of man made islands were created along the dam to form defense lines with armed...
, Last update: December 25 2015,
During World War 2 there was a peaceful invasion of Jackson, Mississippi, for two years by nearly a thousand Dutch military flyers and many of their civilian family members.
, Last update: January 7 2016,
John Frost Bridge, the Most Northern bridge of Operation Market Garden The British 1st Airborne Division under the command of General Roy Urquhart landed on 17 September 1944...
, Last update: December 21 2017,
The bridge over the river Meuse was one of the objectives of Operation Market Garden in September 1944. The 82nd Airborne Division was selected to take the area south...
, Last update: September 18 2016,
To compensate the growing shortage of laborers to work in the Peenemünde test facilities, forced laborers were put to work between May 1943 and April 1945. To house...
, Last update: December 5 2018,
Most of the fallen soldiers on this field of honour fell during later stages of the Battle for Normandy in the assault on Caen, Saint-André-sur-Orne  and the Falaise gap.
, Last update: January 6 2016,
Battery Maisy or Widerstandsnest 83 was a coastal fortification on the Atlantic Wall near the French town of Grandcamp - Maisy in Normandy. It was constructed by Organisation Todt...
, Last update: November 21 2016,
Some villagers had barely seen a German soldier from up close and it even seemed like the Second World War would pass this village by quietly. But that all...
, Last update: January 6 2016,
The only Polish cemetery in France lies on the crossroad from Grainville–Langannerie to Urville, kilometres south of Caen. These fallen soldiers belong to Major–General Stanislaw Maczek and the Polish...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
In October 1939, Hitler signed an euthanesia decree authorizing Phillipp Bouhler and Karl Brandt to carry out a secret euthanasia program.
, Last update: October 5 2016,
There had been reports of bombardments on the cities of Ede, Arnhem, airfields, and anti aircraft positions, but this didn't stop Field marshal Model and General Krebbs to...
, Last update: November 22 2015,
Челябинский тракторный завод (ЧТЗ) or phonetic "Chelyabinskiy traktornyy zavod" (ChTZ), is the full name of the tractor plant in Chelyabinsk. It was founded on 1 June 1933 and...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
In Arnhem, close to the Hartenstein Airborne Museum, is a Commonwealth Cemetery with fallen soldiers from operation Market Garden. The majority of those who fought and died during the...
, Last update: July 4 2014,
A few years after the outbreak of the second world war, probably around 1943, the Germans ordered all men of a certain age to work in the German war...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
At the intersection of the road leading to Hitler's Wolfsschlucht 1 in Brûly-de-Pesche and Couvin, you will find the "Chapelle du Maquis". This chapel has been erected on the...
, Last update: January 6 2016,
On June 6th 1940, Hitler and his general staff observed the advance of the German forces through France during operation "Fall Rot" from this location in Brûly-De-Pesche. The invasion...
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Breendonk was built as part of the fortification defence to protect the city of Antwerp and especially the port of Antwerp in addition of the 1859 stronghold. It was...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
From October 29 till November 3th I took a short organized trip to Poland. The organizer called this trip "Poland under the Nazis". The trip included a stay in...
, Last update: December 6 2015,
This is the story of Mr. Gunther A. Hornig who enlisted in the German Army during world war two. It was provided by his Son, Mr. Gunther Hornig. His father...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
The camp is located South-West of the small city of Auschwitz. It was together with Auschwitz II -Birkenau and Auschwitz III-Monowitz one of the biggest German concentration camps. ...
, Last update: January 7 2016,
The Birkenau concentration camp is a place where I was transfixed. I never imagined it had this size. As far as the eyes could reach barbed wire, guard towers,...
, Last update: May 14 2016,
Hendrik (Henk) Hoogendoorn was born on the 1st of February 1921, my grandfather was just 19 years of age when the German paratroopers dropped down from the sky on...

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