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The Westerplatte Monument, also known as the Monument to the Defenders of the Coast (Polish: Pomnik Obrońców Wybrzeża) is a war memorial located in Gdańsk, Poland, on the Westerplatte Peninsula in the Gdańsk harbour channel constructed between 1964–1966 to commemorate the Polish defenders of the Military Transit Depot (Wojskowa Składnica Tranzytowa, or WST) in the Battle of ...
Castries, Saint Lucia. Castries (/ k ə ˈ s t r iː z / ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Saint Lucia, an island country in the Caribbean.The urban area has a population of approximately 20,000, while the eponymous district has a population of just under 70,000, as at May 2013.
The bunker of General Christian de Castries. Military museum with assorted weaponry used by the French colonial forces and the Viet Minh. The French hill strongpoints all have Viet Minh monuments. French memorial to approximately 10,000 French colonial troops who died in the battle and in captivity
The Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore is the final resting place for Allied soldiers who perished during the Battle of Singapore and the subsequent Japanese occupation of the island Monument to the Women of World War II in London, United Kingdom The Liberty Memorial, National World War I Memorial of the USA in Kansas City, Missouri Original 1915 ...
Medjez-El-Bab Memorial; Memorial against war and fascism; Memorial Complex of Participants of the Great Patriotic War (Shusha) Memorial for the victims of a free Austria 1934–1945; Memorial Hall of the Chinese Expeditionary Force; Memorial Park, Port of Spain; Monument of Lihula; Monument to Richard Sorge; Monument to the Dead of World War II
The Port Chicago Committee is working toward expanding the current memorial to encompass 250 acres (1.0 km 2) of the former Port Chicago waterfront.The memorial site could include some of the railroad revetments and old boxcars from the 1940s period, as well as the existing memorial chapel, with stained-glass windows depicting the World War II operations.
HMS Good Hope was one of four Drake-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900; she was originally named Africa, but was renamed before she was launched.She became flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet in 1906, and was the flagship of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in 1908.
The Battle of Cherbourg was part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II.It was fought immediately after the successful Allied landings on 6 June 1944.Allied troops, mainly American, isolated and captured the fortified port, which was considered vital to the campaign in Western Europe, in a hard-fought, month-long campaign.