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Storia
Frameries was an important transit point on the long road to Germany. From here, you could descend to the south-east tow...
Monumento
From 5 to 6 September 1944, the US 9th Infantry Division liberated the town of Hastière, as they pushed through the Ar...
Goegnies-Chaussé, a border village on the road from Bavay to Binche, was where German troops retreated via Bois Bourdon ...
The Cheval Blanc crossroads was a strategic point south of Mons: the crossroads of two essential roads for the belligere...
Luogo di interesse
On the evening of 2 September 1944, the 3rd AD headquarters moved into the Château de Warelles (Warelles Castle)....
The Ciply roadblock was controlled by two Tank Destroyers covering the Rue Brunehault in Mesvin, and two others supporti...
Gabriel Ottelet was an accountant at the Citroën garage on Rue d'Havré in Mons. Resisting forced labour in Germany, by d...
On 2 September 1944 at around 18:15, a column of 3rd AD tanks from Nouvelles entered Mesvin via the Rue du Cimetière (no...
The Combined Operations Memorial at Warsash commemorates the embarkation point for the Commando Units and those of the...
Campo di battaglia
The first real confrontation between Poles and Germans on Zeeland territory took place at the Bonte Koe (Pied Cow), a ha...
The pub house located on the High Street, Southwick Village was the unofficial Navy, Army and Airforce Institute (NAAF...
Cimitero
Deeply frustrated by their captivity, 152 men and women are known to have escaped from Jersey during the German Occupa...
Dorothea Weber, at great risk to herself, hid her Jewish friend Hedwig Bercu-Goldenberg in her terraced house at 7, We...
The twinning of towns after the Second World War helped unite and heal a war-torn Europe. In 2002, the parish of St He...
On this site stood Albert Bedane’s home and physiotherapy surgery where, at great risk to himself, he sheltered a Jewi...
In September 1942, Adolf Hitler demanded the deportation of all English-born residents of the Channel Islands. This wa...
On the southern wall of the church nave is a memorial plaque to Guernseyman Canon Clifford Cohu, who was the rector of...
This memorial tablet, installed in 1995, marks the location of the former Newgate Street Prison – otherwise known as G...
The Swedish Red Cross ship SS Vega visited the Channel Islands six times with lifesaving food parcels and medical suppli...
Liberation Square in St Helier was officially opened as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations. The principal buildin...
During the German Occupation the Pomme D’Or Hotel was the German Naval Headquarters. A large swastika flag hung from its...
Guidato da Leslie Huelin e Norman Le Brocq, il Partito Comunista di Jersey (JCP) si riunì per la prima volta alla fine d...
On 9 May 1945, St. Helier Harbour was a hive of activity, with many civilians heading down to watch the magnificent even...
Museo
Jersey’s Maritime Museum, which occupies two large granite goods stores dating from the late 1800s, sits on the New Nort...