Memorial Landing Zones Renkum
Adjacent to Eethuis Airborne at the edge of the landing zones of that were used during the Battle of Arnhem, is this memorial unveiled by two Arnhem veterans on the 21st of September 2018. The text on the memorial is:
ON THE 17TH and 18TH OF SEPTEMBER 1944, PARATROOPERS AND GLIDERS OF THE 1ST BRITISH AIRBORNE DIVISION LANDED ON THE FIELDS AROUND THIS POINT.
FROM HERE THEY BEGAN THEIR ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE THE RHINE BRIDGE AS PART OF OPERATION MARKET GARDEN.
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Source
- Text: Arjan Vrieze
- Photos: Arjan Vrieze
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Sep2021
Photo Report Airborne Commemorations Renkum and Heelsum 17 September 2021
On September 17, 2021, the Airborne commemoration was held at the landing areas near Renkum at the beginning of the afternoon. It was then exactly 77 years ago that the first paratroopers and gliders of the 1st Airborne Division landed here. In the evening the commemoration took place at the Airborne memorial in Heelsum.
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- Betuws War Museum "The Island" 1944-1945 - Heteren
- Exhibition Glider Collection Wolfheze - Wolfheze
- Information Centre: The Poles of Driel - Driel
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- Landing Zone / Drop Zone X - Renkum
- Information Panel Battle of Arnhem - Renkum
- Landing Zone Z - Wolfheze
Monument
- Memorial Eethuys Airborne - Renkum
- Liberation Route Marker 20 - Renkum
- Information Sign Airborne Landings 17 and 18 September 1944 - Heelsum
Cemetery
- Dutch War Graves Roman Catholic Cemetery Mariahof Renkum - Renkum
- Commonwealth War Grave Roman Catholic Cemetery Mariahof Renkum - Renkum
- Dutch War Graves Wolfheze - Wolfheze
Remembrance Stone
- Stumbling Stones Achterdorpsstraat 10 - Renkum
- Stumbling Stones Bosbeekweg 19-21 - Bennekom
- Stumbling Stones Alexanderweg 44 - Bennekom
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