Monuments

Groesbeek area

508th PIR - 82nd ABN Div, Beek Ubbergen.

Citizen monument Beek Ubbergen. The monument for citizens stands next to the 508th PIR monument in Berg en Dal.

Citizen monument Berg en Dal.

Drop zone N, Klein Amerika "With Europe in peril, Para's landed here in their thousands: Gen James Gavin and the All American Division, 17 & 18 September 1944, Operation Market Garden. Pilgrim, are you, like the liberators ready to lay down your life when your fellows need you

Here, in the winter of 1944/1945 tens of thousands of soldiers of Crerar's First Canadian Army held the front line between the Maas and the Waal. Pilgrim, cherish all you hold dear"

Drop zone T, Groesbeek "Here 17/18 sep 44, Red Devils of 508 Parachute Inf. landed with artillery and glider. Devils -or angels?- cam eto shield the District of Nijmegen. Pilgrim, no matter the name or the color, shield the vulnerable

From this point around three thousand British and Canadian soldiers set off on 8 feb 1945 for Wesel and the Rhine on Monty's Operation Veritable. Pilgrim, strive with whatever it takes to realize your ideals."

Drop zone O, Overasselt

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