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On 29 September 1944, the British 49th West Riding Infantry Division advanced on Merksplas Colony. That place was marked...
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As during World War I, the Germans took up residence in the castle of the Counts de Renesse. In 1941, British bombs dest...
A big role for two small bridgesIn Willebroek in 1944 there was a pontoon bridge over the Brussels-Scheldt Canal, and in...
During September 1944, nervousness increased in Turnhout. Both residents and German soldiers knew that the Allies were g...
During World War II, Breendonk Fort served as a transit camp. The German occupiers locked up political prisoners and res...
By 9 September 1944, Viersel village had already been liberated. The other side of the Albert Canal was still in the han...
October 1944. In the north-east of the province of Antwerp, the German army was trying to hold out. The British 49th Inf...
Hoevenen experienced turbulent times in 1944. The liberation of Antwerp on 4 September brought not the hoped-for joy, bu...
Belgium fell victim to the infamous flying bombs, a German precursor to the rocket. Antwerp and its port were major targ...
In September 1944, the British army took the southern part of Kempen step by step. The Germans did what they could to st...
On 13 September 1944, the British liberated Mol. Nearby, every crossing on the Kempen Canal Bocholt-Herentals was fought...
Merksplas was the scene of heavy fighting during the last days of September 1944. On 29 September, British troops delive...
On the night of 14-15 February 1943, German guns brought down a Royal Air Force bomber over Meerhout. The HE164, a Vicke...
On the night of 3 to 4 October, the shelling lasted almost 10 hours. Dozens of civilians did not survive the bombing. It...
The battle erupted in full force. For a fortnight, both camps shot back and forth. Kalmthout was heavily bombed. Many ho...
House to house, body to body. On 25 September 1944 Canadian liberators crossed the Dessel-Turnhout-Schoten canal near Ri...
On October third 1944, Allied troops took Brasschaat. After liberation, a gruesome discovery was made at the Maria-ter-H...
The liberators were coming. On 4 September, British tanks rushed towards Boom. Their mission: to liberate Antwerp and th...
Brickworks battlesOn 24 September, the battle erupted. With the help of local resistance fighters, the 49th Infantry Div...
On 24 September, troops of the British 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division advanced from Postel, across the northern canal ba...
The sparsely built-up area around Kasterlee was home to a lot of German anti-aircraft artillery during World War II. The...
The end of the war was already in sight in Heist-op-den-Berg in August 1944. On 29 August, the women and children of the...
Antwerp had been liberated, but the Germans were entrenched behind the Albert Canal. The Command of the British 50th Nor...
On 14 September 1944, the 15th Scottish Infantry Division managed to cross the Bocholt-Herentals Canal and form a small ...
