Introduction

On this website you can find the recollections of veterans and civilians who took part or whitnessed the events around operation market garden, the large scale allied airborne operation that took part in Holland in september 1944. This plan, made by Field Marshall Montgomery failed. The allied did not succeed in crossing the Rhine. The optimism about the allied advance ended and occupied Holland prepared for another winter under german occupation.

Veterans tell about the landings on September 17

  • Phil Garey | 94th Bomb Group
  • Neville Ashley | 2nd Battalion
  • Eldon Sellers | 309th Troop Carrier Squadron
  • Robert M. Murphy | 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
  • Howard Swartz | 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
  • Dick Wolch | 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment
  • 1st Lt. Ed Jansen | 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment
  • Jack M. Yerkes | 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment
  • Gerald Paulk | 101st ABN Div. 501st PIR, 2nd Bn Co. D
  • Don Bolce | Radio operator 85th Troop Carrier Squadron, 437th TCG

    • Veteran stories of the Market Garden battle

  • Short history of the battle at Arnhem
  • Dick Wolch | 508th PIR, First contact with the enemy
  • Howard Swartz | 505th , Glider landing on Klein Amerika
  • Donald W Cox 61st TCG, 53rd TCS | Gliderlanding on 18th September
  • Dick Wolch | 508th PIR, Collecting supplies
  • Rudy Kos 325th GIR | Gliderlanding on 23rd September
  • Robert Murphy, 505th PIR Landing on the 17th and combat in later days.
  • Meldon Hurlbert, 307th Engineer Bn, 82nd Airbone Division Crossing the Waal River.

  • Charles Hogan |907th GFA Bn. 101st ABN Div Gliderlanding on 18th September
  • Bob Salley | 326th Engineer Battalion | 101st Airborne Division Gliderlanding on 18th September
  • Kees Buijs (dutch citizen) | The liberation of Eindhoven
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    153rd Field Regiment Royal Artillery, Nijmegen 1944 153rd Leicestershire Yeomanry Field Regiment Royal Artillery, Nijmegen 20th September 1944, Photo Courtesy by orangetim.
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    30rd Corps 1st Airborne Division 82nd Airborne Division 101st Airborne Division IX Troop Carrier Command
    Clifford D. Krantz

    Pilot 100th Troop Carrier Suadron

     

    Neville Ashley
    Neville Ashley
    2nd Bn. 1st Airborne Division

     

    Dick Wolch

    508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division

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