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  • The Mortar Pit

    The Mortar Pit

    The 1st Border Regiment guarded the West side of the perimeter. Mortar teams of the regiment dug...

    Oosterbeek

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  • De Weverstraat

    De Weverstraat

    As one of the boudaries of the perimeter, the damage to the Weverstraat was considerable. German...

    Oosterbeek

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  • Station Oosterbeek-Hoog

    Station Oosterbeek-Hoog

    The Northern part of the perimeter was situated at the station of Oosterbeek. The troops at the N...

    Oosterbeek

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  • Stranded aid: supplies do not reach the British troops in Oosterbeek.

    Stranded aid: supplies do not reach the British troops in Oosterbeek. Aid for the British troops strands when the DUKW with supplies becomes stuck.

    In the evening of Friday September 22nd 1944, parts of the allied ground army – coming from the s...

    Driel

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  • The Driel ferry - disabled for the Germans and unusable for the Poles

    The Driel ferry - disabled for the Germans and unusable for the Poles The ferry before the war. This ferry, on which cars could cross the river, had been disabled by the ferryman in order to prevent the German troops from using it. .

    The first objective of the Polish troops was to use the Driel ferry to cross the river and to rea...

    Driel

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  • Rijndijk and Engineers Monument: the crossing of the Rhine

    Rijndijk and Engineers Monument: the crossing of the Rhine Remains of the house on the dike where the Polish soldiers established a company headquarters from which the crossing attempts were coordinated.

    This location - situated opposite the village of Oosterbeek - played an important role in both th...

    Driel

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  • The emergency hospital in the school - Operating dressed in flak jackets

    The emergency hospital in the school - Operating dressed in flak jackets The emergency hospital on September 25th 1944. Polish ambulances of the ground army had managed to reach Driel. As a result, 70 patients could be evacuated to Nijmegen.

    The medical company of the Polish paratrooper brigade chose the Roman Catholic primary school as...

    Driel

    Historic mansion

  • Fighting around the Dorpstraat on the southern side of Driel

    Fighting around the Dorpstraat on the southern side of Driel The Polish soldier Bier found his first resting place in a field grave on the Dorpstraat. He is possibly the radio operator who was helped by Henk te Dorsthorst, a resident of Driel at the time.

    At the T-junction of Dorpstraat-Honingveldsestraat, the Polish troops had taken up positions. Whe...

    Driel

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  • De Hemelse Berg

    De Hemelse Berg

    Estate the Hemelse Berg became a shelter for refugees during de Battle of Arnhem, but they did no...

    Oosterbeek

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  • Landing sites – then fields and orchards

    Landing sites – then fields and orchards Historical and recent images combined: Polish paratroopers near Overasselt in September 1944 along with a present-day photo of Driel

    On September 21st 1944, around 17:55, this was the landing area of the Polish troops. Around 1000...

    Driel

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  • The first clashes: German attacks repelled, losses to be mourned.

    The first clashes: German attacks repelled, losses to be mourned.

    The Polish troops took up positions in and around Driel, including at the predecessor of this pos...

    Driel

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  • The Catholic Church: from viewpoint to information centre

    The Catholic Church: from viewpoint to information centre The heavily damaged church in 1945. The church was so damaged that it was decided to rebuild

    On September 24th 1944, Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks, commander of the ground army, visited...

    Driel

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  • Paul Krugerstraat 70

    Paul Krugerstraat 70

    The house on the Paul Krugerstraat, number 70, served as a medical post of the 7th King’s Own Sco...

    Oosterbeek

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  • The Roman Catholic parish house set up as a medical post

    The Roman Catholic parish house set up as a medical post

    At the beginning of the Battle of Arnhem, under the leadership of the local female doctor, Dr. A....

    Driel

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  • hotel Dreyeroord

    hotel Dreyeroord

    Hotel Dreyeroord served as the headquarters of the Scottish troops for a couple of days. After a...

    Oosterbeek

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  • The Nevel: Poles take up positions around Driel

    The Nevel: Poles take up positions around Driel Captured Germans under surveillance of the Poles. Presumably in the Molenstraat area.

    Because the Polish troops could not cross the Rhine on the first night, they took up positions ar...

    Driel

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  • Ommershof

    Ommershof

    Ommershof was situated on the high grounds on the Northern side of the perimeter. When the Britis...

    Oosterbeek

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  • De Naald

    De Naald

    ‘De Naald’ was the first monument that was built in Oosterbeek to remember the war. Even though i...

    Oosterbeek

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  • De Tafelberg

    De Tafelberg

    Hotel De Tafelberg was one of the two main medical points in the perimeter. Operations were carri...

    Oosterbeek

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  • Landgoed Beekhuizen

    Landgoed Beekhuizen

    VELP GLD

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