BELGIUM

  • CANADIAN-BRITISH FORCE TASKED TO OPEN ANTWERP PORT

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 7 minutes

    Antwerp, Belgium • November 1, 1944 After the Allied breakout from Nor­mandy in North­western France begin­ning on August 13, 1944, German forces stub­bornly held the French and Belgian English Chan­nel ports. Thus the Western Allies were forced to bring all supplies for their rapidly east­ward advancing armies from the Mul­berry arti­fi­cial harbor they had opened off…

  • GERMANS CRUSH DUTCH DEFENSES

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 6 minutes

    Rotterdam, The Netherlands • May 14, 1940 On this date in 1940 in Holland, the German Luft­waffe bombed Rotter­dam’s medi­e­val city cen­ter, killing nearly 1,000 people and leaving 85,000 home­less. Rather than endure more fero­cious bombings—leaf­lets dropped on Utrecht indi­cated it was next Dutch city in German cross­hairs—the Dutch Army surren­dered the next day. The German…

  • GERMANS OVERWHELM DUTCH DEFENDERS

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Rotterdam, Netherlands · May 14, 1940 On this date in 1940 in Holland, the Ger­man Luft­waffe bombed Rotter­dam’s medi­e­val city cen­ter, killing nearly 1,000 people and leaving 85,000 home­less. Rather than endure more bombings—leaf­lets dropped on Utrecht indi­cated it was next Dutch city in Ger­man cross­hairs—the Dutch Army surren­dered the next day. The Ger­man offen­sive against…

  • GERMANS OVERWHELM DUTCH DEFENDERS

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Rotterdam, Netherlands · May 14, 1940 On this date in 1940 in Holland, the Ger­man Luft­waffe bombed Rotter­dam’s medi­e­val city cen­ter, killing nearly 1,000 people and leaving 85,000 home­less. Rather than endure more bombings—leaf­lets dropped on Utrecht indi­cated it was next Dutch city in Ger­man cross­hairs—the Dutch army surren­dered the next day. The Ger­man offen­sive against the…