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Memorial Landing Zones Renkum

Adjacent to Eethuis Airborne at the edge of the landing zones of that were used during the Battle of Arnhem, is this memorial unveiled by two Arnhem veterans on the 21st of September 2018. The text on the memorial is:

ON THE 17TH and 18TH OF SEPTEMBER 1944, PARATROOPERS AND GLIDERS OF THE 1ST BRITISH AIRBORNE DIVISION LANDED ON THE FIELDS AROUND THIS POINT.

FROM HERE THEY BEGAN THEIR ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE THE RHINE BRIDGE AS PART OF OPERATION MARKET GARDEN.

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Photo Report  Airborne Commemorations Renkum and Heelsum 17 September 2021

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Photo Report Airborne Commemorations Renkum and Heelsum 17 September 2021

On September 17, 2021, the Airborne commemoration was held at the landing areas near Renkum at the beginning of the afternoon. It was then exactly 77 years ago that the first paratroopers and gliders of the 1st Airborne Division landed here. In the evening the commemoration took place at the Airborne memorial in Heelsum.

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