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Operation Market Garden – Daily Situation Report – September 20th, 1944

Joris Nieuwint

  A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944. Written by Joris Nieuwint for Hells Highway tours. Nijmegen At Nijmegen the combined…

Operation Market Garden – September 19th, 1944 – Daily Situation Report

Joris Nieuwint

A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944. Written by Joris Nieuwint for Hells Highway tours. Eindhoven The ground forces have repaired…

Operation Market Garden – Daily SitRep – September 18th, 1944

Joris Nieuwint

A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944. Written by Joris Nieuwint for Hells Highway tours. Eindhoven Eindhoven is liberated by the 506…

Operation Market Garden – Situation Report: September 17th, 1944

Joris Nieuwint

A day-to-day account of Operation Market Garden, as it happened in 1944.  Eindhoven At Veghel the 501st PIR was dropped on two drop zones to…

The sad story of the Italian armistice of 8 September 1943

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By Romeo Pavoni for War History Online There are some events in the history of every nation that represent a turning point, for the Italian…

The submerged Sherman tank off Saipan

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The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands…

5 Picks of D-Day Paratrooper Militaria

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  Warstuff.com SO FAR IN our news we’ve resisted writing about D-Day Airborne relics largely as they seem to be well covered everywhere else. We’ve…

The scale model of the Mohne Dam

By Mark Barnes / For Your Tomorrow for War History Online I had a photography job at BRE, the former Building Research Establishment. I had…

Memorial Day 2013 – Thoughts from a wreath layer

Joris Nieuwint

Written by Joris Nieuwint for War History Online. Joris lives in the Netherlands. Yesterday, May 26th, was the annual Memorial Day Ceremony at the Margraten American…

ARTICLE: The Battle of Moerbrugge – September 10th and 11th: The Canadian Triumph and the Anti-Climax:

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September 10th and 11th: The Canadian Triumph and the Anti-Climax:  The Bailey bridge was completed by the 8th Field Squadron, RCE, by 0600hrs on the…

The Final Push, the fight to liberate the Netherlands – March 30th 1945

The story continues on our series following the liberation of the Netherlands in the final months of WW2 and the thoughts and diary on a…

The Final Push, the fight to liberate the Netherlands – March 29th 1945

The story continues on our series following the liberation of the Netherlands in the final months of WW2 and the thoughts and diary of a…