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Researching
World War IINetherlands
Holland, Belgium, LuxembourgWorld War II Monographs and Books on CDThisgrouping of information is for the World War 2 Researcheror Family Member and is
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Netherlands
Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg
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17-20Dec442nd Infantry Division
38th Infantry Belgium
34Pages - PDF
15-20Jan452nd Infantry Division
23rd Infantry Belgium
22 Pages - PDF
17-19Jan452nd Infantry Division
23rd Infantry Pass
Odenval, - PDF
2-4Oct447th Armored Division
48th Armored InfantryOverloon, Holland
18 Pages - PDF
27-29Oct447th Armored Division
48th Armored Pages - PDF
4Jan4517th Airborne Division
513th on
Flamierge, - PDF 7-8Jan4517th Airborne Division
507th of
Dead Man's Ridge
Laval, BelgiumArdennes26Pages - PDF 16-18Dec4428th Infantry Division
110th Infantry - - PDF 20-23Dec4428th Infantry Division
109th Infantry RegimentOperations
Grosbus, Pages - PDF
25Dec44-7Jan4575th Infantry Division
289th Infantry BelgiumArdennes
23 Pages - PDF 15-19Sep4482nd Airborne Division
508th ParachuteInvasion
Arnheim, - PDF 15-24Sep4482nd Airborne Division
508th ParachuteInvasion
Holland
Rhineland37Pages - PDF 17-18Sep4482nd Airborne Division
508th - PDF
17-21Sep4482nd Airborne Division
504th ParachuteInvasion of Holland
43Pages - PDF 17-23Sep4482ndAirborne Division
505th ParachuteAirborne LandingGrossbeek and
Nijmegen, HollandRhineland29Pages - PDF 19-20Sep4482nd Airborne Division
505th ParachuteNijmegen BridgeNijmegen, - PDF 22-24Dec4482nd Airborne Division
517th ParachuteOperationsSoy, - PDF
22-25Dec4482nd Airborne Division
508th - PDF 22Dec44-7Jan4582nd Airborne Division
508th - PDF 2-7Jan4582nd Airborne Division
551st Ponts, - PDF 16-21Dec4499th Infantry Division
394th Infantry Action Near
Elsenborn, - PDF 14-19Sep44101st Airborne Division
506th - - PDF 17-27Sep44101st Airborne Division - PDF 17Sep-9Oct44101st Airborne Division
506th - PDF 18Sep-15Oct44101st Airborne Division
327th Glider - PDF
20-26Dec44101st Airborne Division
327th Glider of
Bastogne, BelgiumArdennes30Pages - PDF 25Dec44101st Airborne Division
401st Glider of - PDF 2Nov44104th Infantry Division
413th Infantry RegimentNight River CrossingMark - PDF
HistoricalStudy
Airborne Operations191 Pages - PDF

PictorialRecord
War Against
Germany Europe
and Adjacent Areas458Pages - PDF
1941-1945US Army WWII
Chronology672Pages - PDF Theater
of Operations629Pages - PDF
ShoulderPatch
Insignias of the
United States
Armed Forces19Pages - PDF
6Jun–24Jul Pages - PDF 25Jul–14Sep44Northern France
Campaign
32 Pages - PDF 16Dec44- Pages - PDF 15Sep44- - PDF
22Mar–11May45Central Europe
Campaign36Pages - PDF Pages - PDF
Riviera
To The Rhine
629 Pages - PDF
Researchingthe
National ArchivesFinding Information in
the National Archives5Pages - PDF

WW2Posters
Volumn II
976Pages - PDF
TheGrenadier - PDF - PDFWWII
Strategic MapsEurope82 Pages - PDFTop--- Map ---Files ---History ---Bottom

Afterthe Allied landing in Normandy in June 1944, thewestern Allies rapidly advanced in the directionof the Dutch border. Tuesday September 5 is knownas Dolle dinsdag (“mad Tuesday”)—theDutch began celebrating, believing they were closeto liberation. In September, the Allied launchedOperation Market Garden, an attempt to advancefrom the Dutch-Belgian border across the riversMeuse, Waal and Rhine into the north of the Netherlandsand Germany. However, the Allied forces did notreach this objective because they could not capturethe Rhine bridge at the Battle of Arnhem. DuringMarket Garden, substantial regions to the south,including Nijmegen and much of North Brabant,were liberated. Much of the northern Netherlandsremained in German hands until the Rhine crossingsin late March 1945. Partsof the southern Netherlands were not liberatedby Operation Market Garden, which had establisheda narrow salient between Eindhoven and Nijmegen.In the east of North Brabant and in Limburg, Britishand American forces in Operation Aintree managedto defeat the remaining German forces west ofthe Meuse between late September and early December1944, destroying the German bridgehead betweenthe Meuse and the Peel marshes. During this offensivethe only tank battle ever fought on Dutch soiltook place at Overloon.At the same time, the Alliesalso advanced into the province of Zeeland. Atthe start of October 1944, the Germans still occupiedWalcheren and dominated the Scheldt estuary andits approaches to the port of Antwerp. The crushingneed for a large supply port forced the Battleof the Scheldt in which First Canadian Army foughton both sides of the estuary during the monthto clear the waterways. Large battles were foughtto clear the Breskens Pocket, Woensdrecht andthe Zuid-Beveland Peninsula of German forces,primarily units of the Wehrmacht as well as Germanparatroopers of Battle Group Chill.By 31 October, resistance south of the Scheldthad collapsed, and the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division,British 52nd (Lowland) Division and 4th SpecialService Brigade all made attacks on WalcherenIsland. Strong German defenses made a landingvery difficult, and the Allies responded by bombingthe dykes of Walcheren at Westkapelle, Vlissingenand Veere to flood the island. Though the Allieshad warned residents with pamphlets, 180 inhabitantsof Westkappelle died. The coastal guns on Walcherenwere silenced in the opening days of Novemberand the Scheldt battle declared over. No Germanforces remained intact along the 64-mile pathto Antwerp.The Dutch government had not wantedto use the old water line when the Germans hadinvaded in 1940. It was still possible to create an island outof Holland by destroying dykes and flooding thepolders, but this island contained the main cities.The Dutch government had decided then that therewere too many people to keep alive to justifythe flooding. However, Hitler ordered that FestungHolland be held at any price. The winter of 1944–1945was very severe, and this led to hunger journeysand starvation (about 30,000 deaths), exhaustion,cold and disease. This winter is known as the Hongerwinter (“hungerwinter”), or Dutch famine of 1944. The foodsituation was aggravated by a general railwaystrike ordered by the Dutch government-in-exilein expectation of a general German collapse nearthe end of 1944.On the island of Texel, nearly800 Georgians, part of the German army, rebelledon April 5, 1945. Their rebellion was crushedby the German army after two weeks of battle.565 Georgians, 120 inhabitants of Texel, and 800Germans died. The 228 surviving Georgians wereforcibly repatriated to the Soviet Union whenthe war ended.After crossing the Rhine at Weseland Rees, Canadian forces entered the Netherlandsfrom the east, liberating the eastern and northernprovinces. The western provinces, where the situation wasworst, however, had to wait until the surrenderof German forces in the Netherlands was negotiatedon the eve of May 5, 1945 (three days before thegeneral capitulation of Germany), in the De WereldHotel in Wageningen. Previously the Swedish RedCross had been allowed to provide relief efforts,the most memorable ones employing Allied bombersdropping food over the German-occupied territoriesin Operation Manna.Casualties
By the end of the war 205,900 Dutch men and womenhad died. The Netherlands had the highest percapita death rate of all Nazi-occupied countriesin Western Europe, 2.36%. Another 30,000 diedin the Dutch East Indies, either while fightingthe Japanese or in camps as Japanese POWs. Dutchcivilians were held in those camps as well.Ardennes-Alsace Campaign:16 December 1944–25 January 1945
In August 1944, while his armies were being destroyedin Normandy, Hitler secretly put in motion actionsto build a large reserve force, forofferding itsuse to bolster Germany’s beleaguered defenses.To provide the needed manpower, he trimmed existingmilitary forces and conscripted youths, the unfit,and old men previously untouched for militaryservice during World War II.In September Hitlernamed the port of Antwerp, Belgium, as the objective.Selecting the Eifel region as a staging area,Hitler intended to mass twenty-five divisionsfor an attack through the thinly held ArdennesForest area of southern Belgium and Luxembourg.Once the Meuse River was reached and crossed,these forces would swing northwest some 60 milesto envelop the port of Antwerp. The maneuver wasdesigned to sever the already stretched Alliedsupply lines in the north and to encircle anddestroy a third of the Allies’ ground forces.If successful, Hitler believed that the offensivecould smash the Allied coalition, or at leastgreatly cripple its ground combat capabilities,leaving him free to focus on the Russians at hisback door.Central Europe Campaign:22 March–11 May 1945
Bythe beginning of the Central Europe Campaign ofWorld War II, Allied victory in Europe was inevitable.Having gambled his future ability to defend Germanyon the Ardennes offensive and lost, Hitler hadno real strength left to stop the powerful Alliedarmies. Yet Hitler forced the Allies to fight,often bitterly, for final victory. Even when thehopelessness of the German situation became obviousto his most loyal subordinates, Hitler refusedto admit defeat. Only when Soviet artillery wasfalling around his Berlin headquarters bunkerdid the German Fuehrer begin to perceive the finaloutcome of his megalomaniacal crusade.Normandy Campaign: 6June–24 July 1944
Agreat invasion force stood off the Normandy coastof France as dawn broke on 6 June 1944: 9 battleships,23 cruisers, 104 destroyers, and 71 large landingcraft of various descriptions as well as trooptransports, mine sweepers, and merchantmen—inall, nearly 5,000 ships of every type, the largestarmada ever assembled. The naval bombardment thatbegan at 0550 that morning detonated large minefieldsalong the shoreline and destroyed a number ofthe enemy’s defensive positions. To onecorrespondent, reporting from the deck of thecruiser HMS Hillary, it sounded like “therhythmic beating of a gigantic drum” allalong the coast. In the hours following the bombardment,more than 100,000 fighting men swept ashore tobegin one of the epic assaults of history, a “mightyendeavor,” as President Franklin D. Rooseveltdescribed it to the American people, “topreserve. . . our civilization and to set freea suffering humanity.”Northern FranceCampaign: 25 July–14September 1944
As July 1944 entered its final week, Allied forcesin Normandy faced, at least on the surface, amost discouraging situation. In the east, nearCaen, the British and Canadians were making littleprogress against fierce German resistance. Inthe west, American troops were bogged down inthe Norman hedgerows. These massive, square wallsof earth, five feet high and topped by hedges,had been used by local farmers over the centuriesto divide their fields and protect their cropsand cattle from strong ocean winds. The Germanshad turned these embankments into fortresses,canalizing the American advance into narrow channels,which were easily covered by antitank weaponsand machine guns. The stubborn defenders werealso aided by some of the worst weather seen inNormandy since the turn of the century, as incessantdownpours turned country lanes into rivers ofmud. By 25 July, the size of the Allied beachheadhad not even come close to the dimensions thatpre–D-day planners had anticipated, andthe slow progress revived fears in the Alliedcamp of a return to the static warfare of WorldWar I. Few would have believed that, in the spaceof a month and a half, Allied armies would standtriumphant at the German border. Rhineland Campaign: 15 September 1944–21 March1945
TheRhineland Campaign, although costly for the Allies,had clearly been ruinous for the Germans. TheGermans suffered some 300,000 casualties and lostvast amounts of irreplaceable equipment. Hitler,having demanded the defense of all of the Germanhomeland, enabled the Allies to destroy the Wehrmachtin the West between the Siegfried Line and theRhine River. Now, the Third Reich lay virtuallyprostrate before Eisenhower’s massed armies.The Siegfried Line
The Siegfried Line was a defence system stretchingmore than 630 km (390 mi) with more than 18,000bunkers, tunnels and tank traps. It went fromKleve on the border with the Netherlands, alongthe western border of the old German Empire asfar as the town of Weil am Rhein on the borderto Switzerland. More with propaganda in mind thanfor any strategic reason, Adolf Hitler plannedthe line from 1936 and had it built between 1938and 1940. This was after the Nazis had brokenthe Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treatiesby remilitarizing the Rhineland in 1936.The Siegfried Line was a defence system stretchingmore than 630 km (390 mi) with more than 18,000bunkers, tunnels and tank traps. It went fromKleve on the border with the Netherlands, alongthe western border of the old German Empire asfar as the town of Weil am Rhein on the borderto Switzerland. More with propaganda in mind thanfor any strategic reason, Adolf Hitler plannedthe line from 1936 and had it built between 1938and 1940. This was after the Nazis had brokenthe Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treatiesby remilitarizing the Rhineland in 1936. The Siegfried Line was a defence system stretchingmore than 630 km (390 mi) with more than 18,000bunkers, tunnels and tank traps. It went fromKleve on the border with the Netherlands, alongthe western border of the old German Empire asfar as the town of Weil am Rhein on the borderto Switzerland. More with propaganda in mind thanfor any strategic reason, Adolf Hitler plannedthe line from 1936 and had it built between 1938and 1940. This was after the Nazis had brokenthe Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treatiesby remilitarizing the Rhineland in 1936.
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