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The pointe de Pen-Hir (Breton - Beg Penn Hir) is a promontory of the Crozon peninsula in Brittany, to the south-west of Camaret-sur-Mer. On a clear day there are views to the Pointe du Raz and the islands of Sein and Ouessant and to Pointe Saint-Mathieu. The cliffs can be as tall as 70 metres (230 ft) high.
It is the site of the Monument to the Bretons of Free France,...
This memorial situated on top of a former German observation bunker overlooking the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy reads: “To the heroic Ranger commandoes D2RN E2RN F2RN of the 116th Infantry who under the command of Colonel James E. Rudder of the 1st Infantry Division attacked and took possession of the Pointe du Hoc”. After scaling the steep cliffs ...
Point Wild is a point 11 km (6.8 mi) west of Cape Valentine, 2 km (1.2 mi) east of Saddleback Point, and directly adjacent to the Furness Glacier on the north coast of Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named Cape Wild by the Shackleton Endurance expedition 1914-16, but Point Wild is recommended for this feature because of its small s...
Polygon Wood Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War. It is located in Belgium, in what was the Ypres Salient on the Western Front.
Polygon Wood, near the village of Zonnebeke, was the location of a number of battles during the First World War, beginning in late 1914. It had been held by the Germans since Apri...
The Ponary massacre or Paneriai massacre (Polish:zbrodnia w Ponarach) was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, Poles, and Russians by GermanSDandSSand their Lithuanian collaborators, includingYpatingasis būryskilling squads, during World War II and the Holocaust inReichskommissariat Ostland. The murders took place between July 1941 and August 1944 nea...
The Pool of Peace (or Lone Tree Crater, Spanbroekmolenkrater) in Wijtschate is a peaceful reminder of the great Mine Battle of June 1917. The opening of the offensive was marked by the detonation of 19 deep mines under the German lines between Ploegsteert and Hill 60. The explosions formed enormous craters in the landscape.
In the town hall courtyard, an execution pole commemorates the atrocities that took place here during WWI. Over 3,000 allied soldiers were sentenced to death by execution for desserting their posts or acts of cowardice in the First World War. Only 346 were actually executed. 69 were executed in the westhoek region. 25 British and 2 Canadian soldiers were executed in P...
Poplar Grove National Cemetery is near Petersburg, Virginia, and is managed as part of Petersburg National Battlefield. At Petersburg, implementation of this system did not begin until 1866. During the Siege of Petersburg, Union soldiers who were killed in battle were hastily buried near where the fighting took place, some in single shallow pits, others in mass graves...
Porta Macedonia (Macedonia Gate) is a memorial arch located on Pella Square in Skopje, North Macedonia. Construction started in 2011 and was completed in January 2012.
The arch is 21 meters in height, and cost EUR 4.4 million. Its author is Valentina Stevanovska, a sculptor who made several other controversial monuments from the Skopje 2014 project, including the stat...
320 Americans Killed in WWII Naval Magazine Accident.
On the evening of July 17, 1944, residents in the San Francisco east bay area were jolted awake by a massive explosion that cracked windows and lit up the night sky. At Port Chicago Naval Magazine, 320 men were instantly killed when two ships being loaded with ammunition for the Pacific theatre troops blew up. This...
The Porte Désilles (or mémorial Désilles) is a memorial gate in the French city of Nancy. It is considered to be the oldest War memorial in France.
It is located on place du Luxembourg, on the northern extension of cours Léopold and the esplanade du Souvenir-Français, at the junction of rue Désilles, rue de Metz and rue de la ...
Port Moresby (Bomana) Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery dating from World War II near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The cemetery contains the graves of those who died in the fighting in the former Territory of Papua and on Bougainville Island. The remains of 3,824 Commonwealth soldiers, 699 of them unidentified are buried in the cemetery; as ...
The Portuguese Military Cemetery in Richebourg, Pas-de-Calais, France, is the burial site of 1,831 casualties of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in World War I. It is the only Portuguese military cemetery in France. The cemetery was built between 1924 and 1928 and a great number of its dead were killed in the Battle of the Lys in April 1918. A total of 238 are unid...
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