After the devastating air raid on Wangerooge of 25 April 1945, the Dutch surviving forced labourers wanted to go home ...
Seventy years ago, on 25 April 1945, the East Frisian island of Wangerooge was bombed by 482 bombers of ...
Preface The German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, carried out a large scale bombardment on Coventry on 14 November 1940. A sizable ...
Preface At the outbreak of World War Two RAF Bomber Command consisted of five Groups. The Command possessed four types of ...
I went over to C Company and found a satisfied commander. He had secured the row of houses north of ...
From 24 April till 1 May 1941, over 50,000 troops of the British Expeditionary Forces were evacuated from Greece. ...
During the Teheran Conference in November 1943 the "Big Three", Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, approved of a plan of deception.Germany ...
For the Royal Dutch Navy, the most direct and visible contribution to the liberation of The Netherlands was the participation ...
The battle for Bastogne was a decisive moment during the Ardennes offensive. The harsh wintery conditions and the fact that ...
Introduction On Friday the 10th of May, 1940, the Dutch neutrality was ravaged when the German armies attacked the Low Countries. ...
Introduction German cities suffered large scale bombing by the Allied Air Force during the Second World War. The big bombing raids ...
At the outbreak of the Second World War RAF Bomber Command was composed of five Groups. The Command had four ...
On the 16th of December 1944 the Germans launched a last offensive against the fast moving allied forces on the ...
"Overloon, it’s mines, mud and woods, stiff with the enemy all the way!" "The concussion had blown me to the floor ...
Introduction The German supremacy in Northwestern Europe was one of Dwight Eisenhower's main concerns in the run-up to D-Day, seeing as ...
