Battle of the Bulge
WWII German War Cemetery Lommel – Kattenbos, Belgium
July 28 2017, Last update: July 12 2017, Author: Pascal
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...
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D-Day Harbour Weymouth & Exercise Tiger – The Battle of Lyme Bay – United Kingdom
June 6 2017, Last update: June 11 2017, Author: Patrick
At the Weymouth sea side stands a cenotaph commemorating United States soldiers who left this harbour to fight on the landing beaches in France during D-Day. The Majority of...
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Battle of the Bulge – German War Cemetery Recogne Bastogne, Belgium
January 4 2017, Last update: January 4 2017, Author: Pascal
The Battle of the Bulge claimed many lives on both sides. In this last stage of the war during the winter of 1945, brave men gave their lives for...
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Mardasson Memorial & Bastogne War Museum – Bastogne, Belgium
December 27 2016, Last update: January 4 2017, Author: Patrick
A huge memorial in the shape of an American star was resurrected in Bastogne to commemorate the American soldiers who fought bravely and left so much behind on the...
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Bastogne Barracks – The Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne – Belgium
December 13 2016, Last update: December 13 2016, Author: Patrick
The Bastogne Barracks was the location of the Allied headquarters in December of 1944. After chasing away the retreating German army from France and Belgium the Allied forces halted...
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Arnhem War Museum 40-45 Operation Market Garden, Netherlands
September 14 2013, Last update: January 7 2016, Author: Patrick
In the years after Operation Market Garden multiple museums, memorials and other reminders of the battle could be found in the area of Arnhem and Nijmegen.
One of the lesser...
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German War Cemetery Ysselsteyn, The Netherlands
June 27 2012, Last update: January 7 2016, Author: Patrick
On Saturday 19 may 2012, before our visit to Militracks, we stopped near the village of Ysselsteyn. Here lies a very large German war cemetery. La Cambre in France...
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The battle of Hürtgen Forest, North Rhine-Westphalia – Germany
January 1 2012, Last update: January 6 2016, Author: Pascal
From mid September 1944 until the 9th Februari 1945, the U.S. Army fought it's longest single battle ever recorded, also it's longest battle on German soil, over an area...
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Fort Eben-Emael – Belgium
November 7 2011, Last update: January 6 2016, Author: Pascal
Between 1932 and 1935, for the sum of 24 million Francs, Fort Eben-Emael was built on a strategically important place to defend the eastern border of Belgium and to...
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Houffalize Belgium – It all started here for LandmarkScout
June 1 2008, Last update: September 9 2016, Author: Patrick
We planned a hike in the Belgium Ardennes with a couple of our friends. Leaving early from the Netherlands, we arrived in the lovely village of Houffalize. This...
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