Battle for Bastogne
On the 16th of December 1944 the Germans launched a last offensive against the fast moving allied forces on the ...
By Fred Bolle
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19 April, 2014
Military events - 1944
Articles
Battles for Overloon and Venray
"Overloon, it’s mines, mud and woods, stiff with the enemy all the way!" "The concussion had blown me to the floor ...
By Peter ter Haar
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12 February, 2014
Military events - 1944
Transportation Plan
Introduction The German supremacy in Northwestern Europe was one of Dwight Eisenhower's main concerns in the run-up to D-Day, seeing as ...
By Yoram Boer
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22 December, 2013
Military events - 1944
Sinking of the Junyo Maru
Many people think the sinking of the Titanic was the biggest disaster in modern history also due to the romanticized ...
By Peter ter Haar
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17 March, 2013
Military events - 1944
Operation Pegasus 2
During World War II, Major Airey Neave was head of British Intelligence. He was responsible for providing opportunities for Allied ...
By Chrit Houben
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17 October, 2012
Military events - 1944
Operation Pegasus 1
After the dramatic end of Operation Market Garden, about 300 allied soldiers in the German-occupied territory, north of the Rhine, ...
By Chrit Houben
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17 October, 2012
Military events - 1944
Bombardment of Nijmegen, February 22nd, 1944
Almost every Dutch person is familiar with the German bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940. In order to force the ...
By Chrit Houben
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21 September, 2012
Military events - 1944
Battle for the river Scheldt
The developments on the Western Front, from the moment the allied troops crossed the river Seine by the end of ...
By Fred Bolle
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11 January, 2012
Military events - 1944
Airraid on Kleykamp
Introduction The population registration administration and personal identity documents were an important checking tool for the German occupying forces. Slowly ...
By Fred Bolle
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29 December, 2011
Military events - 1944
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Restoring the Veestraatbrug in Helmond
It has now been over three years since [note]https://www.tracesofwar.nl/news/10329/Nieuwe-foto-van-de-Veestraatbrug-in-Helmond.htm (consulted on 03-08-2024).[/note] I wrote about the discovery of a "new" ...
By Sophie Louwers
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1 January, 1970
Military events - 1944