
The Battle of Morotai , part of the Pacific War, began on 15 September 1944, and continued until the end of the war in August 1945. The fighting started when United States and Australian forces landed on the southwest corner of Morotai, a small island in the Netherlands East Indies (NEI), which the Allies needed as a base to support the liberation of the Philippines later that year. The invadin...
Background of the Movements===== The French Resistance movement is an umbrella term which covered numerous anti-German resistance groups that were based within France. ===There were a number of resistance movements, some that took direct orders from the Special Operations Executive , there was the communist resistance, groups loyal to de Gaulle , regional resistance movements that wanted indepe...
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), called "Women's Army Service Pilots" by some sources, was a paramilitary aviation organization. The WASP's predecessors, the Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) and the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) organized separately in September 1942. They were the pioneering organizations of civilian female pilots, employed to fly military aircra...
Omgekomen in de Javazee ‧ 1942-1943 ‧ Dutch victims Asea . . . . . 〓 Op verschillende data vonden gevechtshandelingen plaats : 02 jani 1942 - 29 nov 1943 - 13 feb 1942 - Koopvaardij-schepen - 19 feb 1942 - 24 feb 1942 - 27-28 feb 1942: Slag in de JAVA-zee 〓 Schepen : Hr.Ms. KORTENAER - Hr.Ms. JAVA - Hr.Ms. DE RUYTER 〓 ss. SUEZ MARU : Japans krijgsgevangenen-schip getorpedeerd op 29 november ...
USS Thresher (SS-200): submarine:
This is the umbrella project for the wide range of Resistance Movements, Underground Organisations and Partisan Fighters during WWII that were active in almost every country though a variety of methods. >>===PLEASE ADD PROFILES TO THE RELEVANT PROJECTS LISTED BELOW===Should a suitable project not yet exist for your profiles you can create a new one. If you need help with starting another projec...
USS Edsall (DE-129): Seaman Norman Edsall:
Engelandvaarders= Engelandvaarder werd de erenaam voor alle mannen en vrouwen die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog (1940-1945), na de capitulatie van de Nederlandse strijd-krachten en vóór de geallieerde invasie in Normandië op 6 juni 1944 (D-day) uit bezet gebied wisten te ontsnappen met de bedoeling zich in Engeland of ander geallieerd gebied bij de geallieerde strijdkrachten aan te sluiten om ...
Stalag VII-A (in full: Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager VII-A) was Germany's largest prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, located just north of the town of Moosburg in southern Bavaria. The camp covered an area of 35 hectares (86 acres). It served also as a transit camp through which prisoners, including officers, were processed on their way to other camps. At some time during the w...
USS Brough (DE-148): LT. (jg) David Atkins Brough (1914-1942)
Amerikaans 'vergeten' Bombardement=∴ 1943 ∴ 31 maart ∴ 13:30 uur ∴ =Rotterdam-West ==∴ Delfthaven ∴ Zuid-Holland ∴ Nederland ∴=∴ =∴ Het 'Vergeten Bombardement' op Rotterdam-West vond plaats op 31 maart 1943 met wederom een groot aantal slachtoffers : 401 mensen kwamen om en 16.500 mensen raakten dakloos, de meesten bewoners van of voorbijgangers in de wijken Bospolder-Tussendijken - Spangen - Z...
In May 1940, a handful of Jewish US citizens were evacuated from British Palestine aboard an Egyptian freighter. This project tells the events leading up to the evacuation and their remarkable story Summary In May 1940, a series of diplomatic dispatches ensue between Jerusalem British Consul General Wadsworth and United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Wadsworth is very candid about w...
EEREBEGRAAFPLAATS in de Kennemer duinen van Bloemendaal / Overveen waar 373 verzets-strijders uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog hun laatste rustplaats vonden. Voor zover niet anders vermeld kwamen zij om op 1 juli 1943 tijdens executies elders in de Kennemerduinen waar zij aanvankelijk ter plekke werden begraven. Sommigen kregen posthuum het Verzetsherdenkingskruis 1940-1945 en zijn gemarkeerd ♕ . Ex...
USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I . Shortly after the end of the war, Arizona was on...
SOVJET ereveld ‧ Leusden / Amersfoort ‧ since 18 nov 1948 bronnen ‧ documentatie ‧ informatie begravenen : total 865 slachtoffers van WWII uit de Sovjet-Unie Sovjet Ereveld Leusden wikipedia 2012 : Remco REIDING ‧ x ‧ Kind van het Ereveld, D33 Publicaties ‧ ISBN 94-90-47009-0. De indeling van het veld is een ontwerp van Amersfoorts stadsarchitect David Zuiderhoek wikipedia . ...
This project is dedicated to the 400+ Rabbis who participated in the Rabbi's March on October 6, 1943. The march was arranged by Hillel Peter Kook (real name: Hillel Kook). It started off in Union Station Washington, DC, then continued to the Capitol, where they were met by Vice-President Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the USA . who listened to their plight, then told them that he wou...
❗️Collegae welkom. Verzoek deze pagina NIET zonder overleg te wijzigen! Aanvulling, verbeteringen of opmerkingen welkom via een daartoe te starten discussie of via een bericht aan een van de personen in het redactie-team. Meer informatie over slachtoffers / familie-leden is voor hun nageslacht gaandeweg te vinden via een doorklik naar de betreffende profiel-pagina, voorzover die niet PRIVE ...
This is the sub-project where all profiles of South Africans who were casualties during World War II can be added. = All South African Army, Navy and Air Force soldiers who were casualties during WWII can be added to this project. About 334,000 men volunteered for full-time service in the South African Army during the war (including some 211,000 whites, 77,000 blacks and 46,000 coloureds and In...
The Battle of Visayas (Filipino: Labanan sa Visayas; Visayan languages: Gubat sa Kabisay-an), also known as the Battle of Panay, was fought by U.S. forces and Filipino guerrillas against the Japanese from 18 March – 15 August 1945, in a series of actions officially designated as Operations Victor I and II, and part of the campaign for the liberation of the Philippines during World War II. The b...
RMS Nova Scotia was a 6,796 GRT UK transatlantic ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship. In World War II she was requisitioned as a troop ship. In 1942 a German submarine sank her in the Indian Ocean with the loss of 858 of the 1,052 people aboard. Many corpses were washed ashore in Natal.[13] The bodies of 120 Italian prisoners of war and internees were buried in a mass grave in the Hillary suburb of...
De geschiedenis van Surinaamse migranten naar het vroegere Nederlands-Oost-Indië geniet nauwelijks enige bekendheid. Door de interneringskaarten van de Japanse bezetter kan een duidelijk beeld worden verkregen van de lotgevallen van vroegere landgenoten in de periode van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.In de eerste decennia van de twintigste eeuw werden in Suriname door het moederland lokale krachten ge...
West Virginia (BB-48), a Colorado-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 35th state.Her keel was laid down on 12 April 1920 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia. She was launched on 19 November 1921 sponsored by Miss Alice Wright Mann, daughter of Isaac T. Mann, a prominent West Virginian; and commissioned ...
Over dit project:= Dit project is het overkoepelend project voor alle projecten op Geni over de Tweede Wereld Oorlog in Nederland Wij vragen momenteel om hulp bij het verder uitbouwen van de sub-projecten van dit project. English: This is the main project for all Dutch WW2 related projects currently on Geni =Nederland in oorlog 1940-1945= The Netherlands at war 1940-1945 Op 10 mei 1940 viel Dui...