Myron - The Dutch Historian

A sign of A.H. his goodwill, but also the start of a lot of messing around with the Dutch prisoners of war..Shortly after the capitulation, some 25,000 of the approximately 270,000 Dutch soldiers were held captured in Germany. But in June 1940, they were allowed to go home. The prisoners were war...

To commemorate the uprising in the GDR..On 17 June 1953, thousands of Dresdeners demonstrated here on the Postplatz for democracy, free elections and against the arbitrariness of the communist dictatorship. After the violent suppression of the uprising, many of them were arrested and convicted..A...

Exercise Tiger was the code name for one of the exercise leadings prior to the D-Day invasion of Normandy. The exercise took place on 27 April 1944 on the Slapton Sands in Devon. Coordination and communication problems resulted in deaths from friendly fire, and a convoy positioning itself for a l...

80 years have passed since American, British and Canadian troops, along with some other nationalities, stormed the beaches of Normandy. Operation Overlord had begun..What does this mean to you?.Let us not forget those who fought for freedom. Lest we forget..Comment - Tag - Share - Follow.#dday #d...

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On the night of June 5th, 1944, more than 800 C-47 transport aircraft carrying over 13,000 paratroopers crossed the English Channel. These spearheads would secure key crossroads behind enemy lines and silence artillery guns. The use of airborne troops was a big unknown to Eisenhower, who feared t...

3 June morning, 1942. The ship USS Gillis urgently sent a message to William Updegraff, commander of the Alaskan naval base Dutch Harbor: The Japanese are attacking Alaska..The Americans had known for a few days that two Japanese aircraft carriers and five destroyers were sailing around the Alask...

Japanese Raid on Madagascar ___On May 29th, 1942, Japanese submarines I-10, I-16, and I-20 arrived along the coast of Madagascar. Three weeks prior the British had been battling French Vichy forces for control over the island of Madagascar. The Japanese wanted control over the island to use it as...

Imperial Japanese Navy plane crashes into the ocean after being hit during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 25-27 October 1942. The battle is sometimes also referred to as the Third Battle of Solomon Sea, part of the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II..Colorized and sound edit by @druid_wo...

Faces of war, faces of defeat. British soldiers resting on a boat just after their evacuation from Dunkirk..On this day in history, 26 May 1940, Operation Dynamo began. When 400,000 men could not get home, home came for them. Over nine days, an armada of more than 900 ships evacuated 338,226 mili...

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On this day in history, the Georgian Uprising ended..The Georgian Uprising, or the Ruski War, was a large-scale mutiny at the end of World War II of Georgian troops, part of the Wehrmacht, on the Dutch island Texel. The rebellion turned against the losing Germans. It started at the night of 5 to ...