Cemetery Heenvliet
The only Dutch victim of the ammunition disaster of 20 May 1945 is buried in the cemetery in Heenvliet.
Kommer de Gruijter immediately joined the Dutch Home Forces (BS) after the war and supervised the work around the ammunition collection and transport by ship with the Allies nearby Heenvliet.
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Source
- Text: Adri Kramer
- Photos: Adri Kramer
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Point of interest
- Ammunition disaster Heenvliet - Heenvliet
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- Bombardment Zuidland - Zuidland
Monument
- War Memorial Zwartewaal - Zwartewaal
- Memorial Destroyed House - Zwartewaal
- War Memorial Rozenburg - Rozenburg
Cemetery
- Dutch War Grave Geervliet - Geervliet
- Commonwealth War Graves Zwartewaal - Zwartewaal
- Dutch War Graves Zwartewaal - Zwartewaal
Remembrance Stone
- Stumbling Stones Van Blankensteinstraat 1 and 2 - Heenvliet
- Stumbling Stone Stationsweg 29 - Zuidland
- Stumbling Stone Hoofd 14 - Zuidland
Fortification
- German Tobruk Zwartewaal - Zwartewaal
- Defense Wall Peltsersdijk Fortress - Brielle
- Atlantikwall - FA Munition Bunker Rijnpoort - Rijnpoort
Crash site
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