Market Garden Highlights Battlefield Tour
28 July 2026At a glance Duration: Full day (approx. 8 hours, 09:00–17:00)Start: Eindhoven railway stationEnd: Arnhem railway stationSectors covered: 101st Airborn…
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The Temporary American Cemetery at Son
4 July 2026For a few years after 1944, a field near the Waterhoef farm at Son held one of the first American cemeteries in the Netherlands. German prisoners dug …
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Robert Cole: The Medal of Honor He Never Knew He Had Won
8 May 2026A parachute-shaped stone stands at the edge of a field in Best, in the Netherlands. The marker carries the Medal of Honor citation of Lieutenant Colon…
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Americans at Market Garden Battlefield Tour
6 March 2026At a glance Duration: Full day (approx. 8 hours, 09:00–17:00)Start: Eindhoven railway stationEnd: Nijmegen railway stationDivisions covered: 101st Air…
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Hell’s Highway Battlefield Tour
6 March 2026At a glance Duration: Full day (approx. 8 hours, 09:00–17:00)Start: Eindhoven railway stationEnd: Eindhoven railway stationDivision covered: 101st Air…
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Easy Company Battlefield Tour – Market Garden & The Island
6 March 2026At a glance Duration: Full day (approx. 8 hours, 09:00–17:15)Start: Eindhoven railway stationEnd: ‘s-Hertogenbosch railway stationUnit covered: Easy C…
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WW2TV: Cutting Hells Highway – Koevering
25 September 2024It’s been on YouTube for more than four years but I’d thought I’d post it here too. For the excellent WW2TV YoutTube channel by Paul Woodadge I hosted…
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Operation Market Garden 80th Anniversary Events near Eindhoven and Veghel
4 August 2024This is a non exhaustive and probably incomplete list of upcoming 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden events that are planned in the 101st Air…
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A chance encounter, meeting the daughter a MIA C-47 pilot
30 May 2021On the 17th of September 1944 at the start of Operation Market Garden C-47 “Chevelet” was heading towards the Netherlands, on board were ten pathfinde…
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The Heroic Sacrifice of A C-47 Pilot
2 May 2018This is the story about 2nd Lt. Herbert Shulman, a pilot flying a C-47 Dakota filled with paratroopers for Operation Market Garden.
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The NUTS Cave at the Bastogne Barracks
2 May 2018Visiting the NUTS cave at the Bastogne Barracks, this was the headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division during the siege and the location where Gene…
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The Real Easy Company Foxholes Bois Jaques – Bastogne
2 May 2018The real foxholes that were once manned by Easy Company, Band of Brothers during the siege of Bastogne.
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This Castle Was The Bastogne HQ of the 502nd PIR – 101st Airborne
2 May 2018Welcome to Château de Rolley, the headquarters of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment during the siege of Bastogne.
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Band of Brothers – Easy Company – Crossroads Battle Walkthrough
2 May 2018A step by step walkthrough at the location where Easy Company fought the battle at the Crossroads, made famous in Band of Brothers Episode 6.
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September 26th
26 September 1944Veghel During the night the Germans on the road at Koevering retreat back towards Schijndel. In the morning the Allies find their positions deserted b…
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September 23rd
23 September 1944Eindhoven / Veghel Late in the afternoon, the allies manage to reopen the corridor at Veghel, persistent attacks from the 501st and the 506th PIR of t…
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September 22nd
22 September 1944Veghel Early in the morning near Veghel, disaster strikes when the Germans with the 1/22 SS Panzer Grenadiers supported by Panthers tanks and self-pro…
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September 21st
21 September 1944Eindhoven The 101st Airborne tries to widen the corridor by attacking the Germans near Liemdpe (1/501st) and at Schijndel (3/501st and 502nd PIR). At …
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September 20th
20 September 1944Eindhoven At Veghel, in a brilliant move, the 501st PIR bags a battalion of Germans. C company at Heeswijk Dinther is used as the anvil while A & B co…
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September 19th
19 September 1944Eindhoven The ground forces have repaired the bridge at Son and drive in mere hours through Grave and Heumen to Nijmegen, finally achieving the envisa…
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September 18th
18 September 1944Eindhoven Eindhoven is liberated by the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne. Around midday, they link up with XXX Corps reconnaissan…
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September 17th
17 September 1944Eindhoven At Veghel the 501st PIR was supposed to be dropped on two drop zones to enable an attack on the bridges over the AA and the Zuid Willemsvaar…
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Operation Market Garden
10 September 1944The aim of Operation Market garden was to bypass the German fortified Siegfriedline. The objective was the get to the IJsselmeer and thus bottle up al…
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