Much more visitors Airborne at the Bridge, Arnhem than expected
Of all visitors in 2019, 40% came from the Netherlands. Of the remaining 60%, Airborne at the Bridge was the most visited by people from the United Kingdom, Germany, America and Belgium
First shirt Flight for Freedom: ode to the Horsa glider presented
A shirt in honour of the Horsa glider, do you want to win one? You might, if you have the correct answer to the question!
Special Airborne-arch for the 75th commemoration of Market Garden
Market Garden News (English)
The blue sky in the picture nicely matches the sky as we would like to see during the Airborne March, the 73rd this year. Veterans wave to paratroopers who jumped from a Dakota, beautiful photos of photographer Arjan Vrieze and caught in this design by Roger Beets
Replica, real-size Horsa glider arrived in The Netherlands
Market Garden News (English)
It will be re-assembled, under cover, for public display in September in front of the Airborne Museum in Oosterbeek from the start of the Airborne March till after the 75th commemorations in September. Afterwards the Horsa will be dismantled for a second road move to its final destination
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Airborne Museum closes for at least five months for refurbishment
Market Garden News (English)
In 1944 Hartenstein served as headquarters for the British airborne troops. During the lost battle of Arnhem heavy damage was done. The last war damage is just restored over the past year at the on Tuesday finished restoration of buildings and park
Expo The Network extended and special diaries in Airborne Museum
Market Garden News (English)
Major Hibbert escaped from the Germans when he was captured, he got help from the Dutch resistance and he managed to cross The Rhine during Operation Pegasus I in October 1944
Meer market garden news (english)
The resistance played a major role during the Battle of Arnhem
"Some groups were nationally controlled by the National armed resistance groups or the Domestic armed Forces. Separately the groups committed smaller acts of resistance, which, together, led to major actions in a large area.”
The Liberty festival, Foulkes Festival and the parade on May 5th
Images of the festival, the re-enactment on the Foulkes Terrain and the Parade where veterans were cheered and honoured
From commemorate, to celebrate by lighting the Fire of Liberation
The fire will be lit at 12:00, the starting-point of all the celebrating till 24:00. And The Netherlands is for 12 hours a country who, after they remembered all the fallen, kept 2 minutes of silence with them in their minds during their Remembrance of the Death on the 4th, turn in a celebrating, dancing, singing, country, like they do every year, thankful as always, not one area excluded
Veteran Kenneth Mayhew brings the Fire of Liberation to main-stage
The Dutch government decided that Kenneth Mayhew should be awarded a higher honour than the British Government suggested. On 24 April 1946, by Royal Decree, Mayhew was knighted by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, receiving the Knight fourth class of the Military William Order
Flower Children from 1945 wanted for 75th Memorial Service in Oosterbeek
It was September 1945 when the battle of Arnhem was commemorated for the first time. During the memorial service on the Airborne cemetery in Oosterbeek about 1200 school children laid flowers on the graves of the fallen soldiers during that battle
The Lancaster PA474 heavy bomber flies over The Netherlands May 4th
As far as known, there are still 17 Lancasters remaining and 2 of them still fly. One of them is in the possession of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flights. On May 4th, this legendary plane makes a memorial flight over The Netherlands
British veteran Ray Lords takes the fire of liberation to Wageningen
The fire will go to numerous cities and villages throughout The Netherlands by runners with torches. They will run in groups, some groups have to run all night and make many miles before the fire arrives in their town
Poem about a light on every grave Christmas Eve Airborne Cemetery
The village-poet Sander Essers was asked to write a poem for the initiative to let a candle burn on every war grave and he did, in Dutch but so touching we asked him for a translation
Attic back on Airborne Museum is crown on restoration
This ornament piece, which hides the roof from the eye, is the crown on the restoration of the Airborne Museum Hartenstein
Jaap van Genderen receives British decoration from Queen Elizabeth
The award is granted to Mr van Genderen for the dedicated attention he has, as one of the organisers of the annual Airborne Memorial Service at the war-cemetery in Oosterbeek, in memory of the Allied soldiers who died during operation Market Garden in September 1944
Busy times for remembrance liberation of The Netherlands in WWII
Many people are involved in organising commemorations, events and festivities, but there are also people who 'dress up' as it were. They act like allied liberators, German occupiers, or civilians in wartime
Candlelights at Christmas Eve war-graves Oosterbeek and Wageningen
"Fantastic for this group to start something and suddenly realise so many people came to help. That shows how enormous the involvement in Oosterbeek and his surroundings is. Apart from all the candles burning in the dark which is so impressive, the involvement is also very impressive."
A candlelight on every war-grave this Christmas Eve
The group is already looking forward to what a beautiful sight this is going to be. It could be raining this Christmas Eve but they can't be bothered. "Bolsius developed new storm-caps and we expect the candles continue to burn during rain, 48 hours, the whole Christmas!"
Stolen remembrance plates benches Old Church Oosterbeek replaced
85-year old guide of the church, Henk Duinhoven remembers as it was yesterday how Leslie came to Oosterbeek for the last time. The WWII veteran was terminally ill, brought his four daughters to Oosterbeek and would not be able to ever come back. He bumped into Henk during a guidetour at the Westerbouwing
The construction of the new White House, Dreyeroord starts this week
The unpleasant empty spot on the Graaf van Rechterenweg in Oosterbeek is finally going be filled
Remembrance Sunday at the Airborne cemetery Oosterbeek, The Netherlands
Remembrance Day, or Poppy-Day, is the day England and the the Commonwealth remember the fallen of the first world war and all armed conflicts and wars since
Group of ten wants a candlelight on every war grave at Oosterbeek
Separate they came, just like countless others, to light candles on the war graves. As all the candles they brought were lit, not every grave had a light burning and some of them had more than one. There should be a light at every grave! They fully agreed on that. But how? Do you want to help?
Send a birthday card to Full Monty veteran Bill Pendell
“I was always on my own,” Bill said seventy years later. He fought at D-Day, the Ardennes, Market Garden ánd the Reichswald and will become 97
Recovery dozens of World War II plane wrecks in The Netherlands
Minister Kajsa Ollongren (Home Affairs) says the recovery should first "do justice to the wishes of families of killed crew members." In addition, she calls it a "meaningful gesture" looking forward to the celebration of 75 years of liberation in 2020
New building for National Liberation museum Groesbeek, Netherlands
In addition to the current museum a new construction will rise with a 12 meter high dome. It will represent a parachute like the Allied forces landed with in September 1944 in the Netherlands