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King Haakon returns to liberated Norway. King Haakon of Norway, home for the first time since the German invasion in 1940, inspects a guard of honor composed of U.S. troops during the ceremonies June 7, 1945, welcoming him back to Oslo, Norwegian capital. Exactly five years previously June 7, 1940, King Haakon left Norway for London on a British cruiser to carry on the fight against the Germans.

King Haakon returns to liberated Norway. King Haakon of Norway, home for the first time since the German invasion in 1940, inspects a guard of honor composed of U.S. troops during the ceremonies June 7, 1945, welcoming him back to Oslo, Norwegian capital. Exactly five years previously - June 7, 1940 - King Haakon left Norway for London on a British cruiser to carry on the fight against the Germans ...

Van de Nederlandse strijdkrachten telde de marine de meeste mensen. In tegenstelling tot de landmacht was de marine er begin mei 1940 in geslaagd een aanzienlijk deel van personeel en materieel uit Nederland te evacueren. Daarnaast bevond zich in de Indische wateren het marinesmaldeel dat belast was met de verdediging van de archipel. Naast het escorteren van konvooien hebben Nederlandse marineschepen ...

Slag om Arnhem 1944/1945; operation Market Garden. A dead city revives. On September the 17th 1944 about 12 o'clock, the airborn troops of the Second British Army were dropped around Arnhem. They were marching to their collection points and from there they advanced to the Rhine bridge. The final result of this operation, which not succeeded, was, that the town of Arnhem became a dead city. On the 19th ...