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Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema was born in the former Dutch East Indies and moved to The Hague with his parents in the...
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George John Lionel Maduro moved to The Hague from Willemstad (Curaçao) at the age of 10. When the war broke out, he was ...
The 18-year-old Berliner Joachim Peiper enlisted the SS in October 1933 and was soon assigned to the elite of this force...
Helene Palm’s family was unwilling to evacuate their ancestral village of Vossenack, but the fighting made it impossible...
A philosopher by education, a tankman by calling. Soldiers adored him, for he cared about their lives. Dutchmen and Belg...
Josef Brettschneider took part in the Battle of Berlin as a young lieutenant. In a hopeless situation, he had to fight w...
It was on 10 September 1944 that British Major-General George Erskine (1899-1965) arrived in Brussels. He stayed there u...
Joseph Van de Meulebroeck (1876-1958), who was dismissed from his position by the occupier in the summer of 1941, reache...
On 13 July 1944, the military administration which had been in place since 28 May 1940 and headed by General von Falkenh...
"The" resistance fighter from Mons-Borinage, and much more Obviously, one individual cannot by him- or herself sum up th...
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny comandò l’”Armata B” francese, poi la 1ª Armata, che partecipò alla liberazione della Francia...
Dopo aver evacuato le forze giapponesi da Guadalcanal nel 1943, il generale Patch prense il comando della 7ª Armata degl...
Lieutenant Shalwa Loladze was a Georgian soldier fighting for the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Second World War....
During the Second World War the U.S. Armed Forces were segregated based on race. The 761st Tank Battalion, known as the ...
After the Allied outbreak from Normandy in August 1944 the population of Paris decided that it was time to try to libera...
As an Indian secret agent Noor Inayat Khan was active for the British secret service Special Operations Executive (SOE) ...
As part of not only the French Armed Forces but also the Free French Forces under command by Charles de Gaulle, Edgard T...
Sophie Scholl svolse un ruolo attivo nel gruppo di resistenza della Rosa Bianca. Era eccezionalmente attenta al pensiero...
The Allied forces insisted only white soldiers would be present for the liberation of Paris. Claude Mademba-Sy was an ex...
During Operation Amherst, French parachutists were dropped in Drenthe. The goal of this operation was to support the Can...
For a long time the prevailing view among the U.S. Air Force was that African Americans could not fly airplanes. However...
Joe Polowsky was one of the U.S. soldiers who met the Soviet troops on the Elbe near Torgau in April 1945. After the war...
The Women’s Land Army (WLA) was established to avoid a food shortage in the United Kingdom in 1939. Daphne Mary Banks (n...
During the Second World War, American Lee Miller was one of the few female photographers accredited as war correspondent...
