Walking arm-in-arm with the Dutch queen, American World War II veteran Kenneth Thayer has returned to the tiny village that ...
MESCH, Netherlands — American World War II veterans and U.S. soldiers now ... drove into Thursday’s commemoration ceremony on a vintage military vehicle next to King Willem-Alexander and ...
American airborne troops stormed out of their helicopters and took cover in some of the same fields where Allied troops took ...
the sun broke through onto a corner of a foreign field and the final resting place of English World War II soldier, private ...
MARGRATEN, Netherlands — In the rolling hills of ... to liberate towns and villages from the Nazi occupation in World War II. Nowhere is the deep-rooted gratitude of the post-war generations ...
Veterans and royals gather this weekend to mark the 80th anniversary of one of World War II's greatest Allied debacles: an unprecedented but failed airborne operation to seize Dutch bridges and forge ...
During World War II, aircraft carriers revolutionized naval warfare, and several stood out for their significant ...
The gravesites of American soldiers buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial near Margraten have been adopted by Dutch families for generations.
The guide is World War II expert Arie-Jan van Hees, a local resident and retired member of the Dutch military. He shares somber facts about the war during his 90-minute tour. Its devastating human ...