We went to the war museum they have here in Nijmegen. This area saw the largest airbourne offensive in WWII code named Market Garden. On September 17, 1944 the Allied forces began dropping paratroopers, supplies and weapons into various strategic areas here.
The museum is in the shape of a parachute.
It was a tough fight, Arnhem is the location of the movie “A Bridge Too Far” and we were docked right by the bridge that the Allied Forces were trying to take. Unfortunately that part of the campaign was a failure. Only 400 British Airbourn troops got to the bridge but couldn’t hold the bridge. They were overrun after about 4 days.
I didn’t know how close Nijmegen was to the German border. Our tour guide pointed out that across the street was Germany and on the other side it was Netherlands.
1 comments:
Wow, that's some history. Holding the bridge makes me think of that one book from the Furies of Calderon series where they had to hold the Elenarch.
Something tells me the British paratroopers didn't have wolf-warriors fighting against them.
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