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Hollandia was a port on the north coast of New Guinea, part of the Dutch East Indies, and was the only anchorage between Wewak to the east, and Geelvink Bay to the west. It was occupied by the Japanese during their invasion of the Dutch East Indies in 1942, who planned to use it as a base for their expansion towards the Australian mandated territories of Papua and New Guinea.
Kenau is a 2014 Dutch / Hungarian / Belgian action film directed by Maarten Treurniet. [1] The film is inspired by the legendary story of Kenau who led an army of women in the siege of Haarlem by the Spaniards in 1573 during the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain.
The Forgotten Battle (Dutch: De Slag om de Schelde) is a 2020 Dutch war drama film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. that depicts the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. The film follows a Dutch Axis soldier played by Gijs Blom, a British glider pilot played by Jamie Flatters, and a resistance woman from Zeeland played by Susan Radder.
After the Hollandia bombing raid the Japanese no longer had any substantial air power in all of New Guinea for the rest of the war. Air supremacy was established by the Allied forces. One squadron reported after returning from the raid that "Hollandia had really been Wewaked .'" [ 5 ]
When Trumpets Fade is a 1998 HBO television movie directed by John Irvin and starring Ron Eldard, Frank Whaley, Zak Orth, and Dylan Bruno. First released on June 27, 1998, the film is set in World War II during the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest .
Jan. 26, 2023: Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively are cast in It Ends With Us. Hoover, the author of such bestselling titles as Verity and Ugly Love, delighted fans with a concrete update on the much ...
The Siege of Jadotville is a 2016 action-war film directed by Richie Smyth [2] and written by Kevin Brodbin. An Irish-South African production, the film is based on Declan Power's book, The Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army's Forgotten Battle (2005), about an Irish Army unit's role in the titular Siege of Jadotville during the United Nations Operation in the Congo in September 1961, [3] part ...
Ardennes Fury (also known as Battle of the Ardennes: Fury) is a 2014 direct-to-video war film directed by Joseph J. Lawson. The film, produced by B-movie film company The Asylum, stars Tom Stedham, Bill Voorhees, Tino Struckman, Lawrence C. Garnell Jr., Lauren Vera, Yaron Urbas. [1] Ardennes Fury is a mockbuster of Fury.