Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
As D-Day approached, Kent became the stage for one of the War’s greatest deception plans, Operation Fortitude South. In ...
#Story
The Allied Rhineland Offensive comprised several large-scale military operations during the last months of the Second Wo...
The Second World War in Europe ended in the spring of 1945 with the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. The fate of the Ge...
The concentration camp in Stutthof was initially founded to eliminate and persecute Poles. Later in the war the role of ...
Quickly following the United States’ entrance into the Second World War in December 1941, hundreds of thousands of Ameri...
During World War Two, The Hague was generally spared from major attacks causing widespread devastation. That is until th...
In the early morning of 10 May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. The purpose of the 'Battle for The Hague' was to c...
An estimated 1,800 Dutch citizens attempted to escape to England during World War Two. The majority chose to travel via ...
The success of the Allies in the liberation of Western Europe was made possible by the men who helped bring supplies to ...
Crushed and definitively vanquished by the Allies on the borders of Normandy in the "Falaise pocket", the Nazi armies be...
The longest campaign of the Second World War Among the military operations conducted by the Allies to liberate Europe th...
Operation Cannonshot was the code name for the Canadian crossing of the IJssel at Gorssel and Wilp on April 12, 1945. Af...
Last French province to be free The liberation of the Alsace happened in stages. Logistical difficulties, broken terrain...
The American and French offensive in mid-November 1944 was a success, resulting in the liberation of most of Alsace. How...
For three quarters of a century, or so, two Belgian cities - Mons and Tournai - have been competing for the honour of be...
The Allied invasion of Southern France The second invasion of France, aimed to speed up the liberation of the country an...
The final hurdle of the Rhineland Offensive was the Rhine itself. The crossing near Wesel (Operation Plunder) was one of...
The Battle of Ortona, fought between 20 and 28 December 1943 by Canadian and German forces was one of the most important...
On 1 July 1945, Colonel Frank Howley arrived in Berlin with an advanced detachment of the U.S. Army. His mission was to ...
#Biography
James Megellas joined the U.S. army in May 1942 and saw action in Italy, Holland, Belgium and Germany. He took part in s...
Jean-Baptiste Piron, born in Belgium in 1896, was a military officer who fled to England during the Second World War. He...
Adriana Vitali, a 9 year old girl, witnessed the shelling of Littoria (nowadays Latina), by American and British planes ...
Like the other children in La Roche, Andrée Collin was eagerly looking forward to Christmas of 1944. In September the Am...
During the Allied invasion of Normandy Arlette Varin, ten years old, lived in the city of Lisieux. On 6 June 1944 she lo...