US Paratrooper
This soldier of the 101st Airborne Division looks out over the spot where on September 17, 1944, the Pathfinders of this division were the first paratroopers to land in Brabant to mark Drop Zone A. Operation Market Garden had begun.
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- Text: TracesOfWar.nl
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Museum
Point of interest
- Landing Site Donald O. Mills, Eerde - Veghel (nabij Eerde)
- Operatie Market Garden Dropzone A - Schijndel
- Klondike - Headquarters 501st PIR, 101st Airborne Division - Veghel
Monument
Cemetery
- Commonwealth War Graves Roman Catholic Cemetery Eerde - Eerde
- Dutch War Graves Zijtaart - Zijtaart
- Commonwealth War Graves Roman Catholic Churchyard Veghel - Veghel
Remembrance Stone
- Stumbling Stones Ncb-Laan 6 - Veghel
- Stumbling Stones Hoofdstraat 21 - Veghel
- Stumbling Stones Hoofdstraat 65 - Veghel
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