Americans At Market Garden Battlefield Tour

In this full day tour, we will look at how the Americans were involved in Operation Market Garden and we will be covering locations from both the 82nd and the 101st Airborne Division.

This tour will start at the dropzone in Son, from there we will visit nearby bridge where we will discuss the attempts to capture it and the subsequent German attack and attempt to destroy it.

We will then visit the Joe Mann memorial, the only soldier of the 101st Airborne division who was awarded the Medal of Honor during Operation Market Garden.

Then we will focus on the crucial battles fought around Veghel to keep the road to Nijmegen open. On September 24th the Germans once again cut the road, this time to the south of Veghel at a hamlet called Koevering. For over 48 hours the road was blocked and this was the death blow to the operation.

After this it is time for lunch!

With a belly full of food we will leave the 101st Airborne division sector and move north towards the 82nd Airborne area. Our first stop of the afternoon is at the massive road bridge across the Meuse (Maas) river at Grave. We will talk about the daring capture by a handful of men under Lieutenant John S. Thompson on the first day of the operation.

We will continue the tour at the site of the heroic Waal river crossing where the 3rd Battalion of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment crossed the fast flowing river in broad daylight, in canvas boats and under murderous German fire.

Then it’s time to visit the road bridge at Nijmegen where we will talk about the four-day struggle to capture it intact. This was a true combined arms battle where the American Paratroopers fought side by side with the soldiers and tankers of the British Guards Armoured division.

Our last stop of the day will be the location where John R. Towle was awarded the Medal of Honor, the only member of the 82nd Airborne division to receive this medal during Operation Market Garden.

Tour itinerary

This tour begins at 09:00h at the Eindhoven railway station.

In the 101st Airborne sector we will visit the following locations:

Dropzone at Son
Bridge at Son
Joe E. Mann Medal of Honor memorial
Hell’s Highway at Veghel, the Germans cut the road at Veghel

82nd Airborne sector we will visit:

Bridge at Grave
Waal crossing site
Road bridge at Nijmegen
John R. Towle Medal of Honor memorial

This tour will take around 8 hours and ends around 17:00h (5PM) at the Nijmegen railway station.

Languages

This battlefield tour is available in English and in Dutch.

Pricing

We have a flat fee price for our tours:

Price for a full day private tour for 1 to 4 persons including transportation is €480.
For 5-8 persons I have to charge €650 to cover the rent of a large minivan.
Lunch and museum entrance is not included in the price.
For a group of more than 8 persons please visit my Groups page