Stories categorised in 'Netherlands'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Lt Hutchinson had to take out a fighting patrol, to try and get a German prisoner, and he picked his trusty...
Because the weather was that bad the Landings were cancelled for twenty-four hours, from the 5th to the 6th...
The ‘skid’ a landing device in addition to the tricycle wheels were forced threw the floor of...
After a long delay the allies and the German Reichskommissar agreed to the dropping of food by 235...
Sgt. John Patterson; WOP Sgt. Frank Linklater; Bomb Aimer Sgt. D. Hall; one Rhodesian - Rear Gunner Sgt....
I was in the second wave of troops to land on "Green" beach, just south of the little seaside...
However it so happened that we could see what was obviously an allied — and at that juncture of the...
Journey continues on to do Chindwig, Basoli Bayaan, Kohima, the 'Basin', Imphal, Snipers Triangle,...
On the move across Europe As Ron's regiment moved across Europe south of Paris and then into Belgium...
All we had to do was to secure the landing zones for the paras, and then belt off to Arnhem and the...
We were tended by all Dutch doctors, sisters and maids, supervised by their German overseers and were in...
During training a Sgt of the Para's came looking for volunteers, 3 mates and I volunteered when they...
The Germans had been the occupying force in the Netherlands for four years, but since June 1944 we knew...
Paddle steamer to Ostend: A fortnight after D-Day, we got on a paddle-steamer - the kind they had in...
The British 2nd Army had been given the task of making the corridor wider and safer, and George's unit...
Lancaster N-Nan, JB607 with its crew; Pilot- Stan Ireland, Flt Eng- Billy Squires, Air Bomber- Frank Seery,...
Somehow four of us got separated from the platoon - Snowy Wheatley, Fred Weatherley, Lol Colbrooke and me....
My grandmother grew really nervous, but when they came to check her papers, a stranger told the German...
Returning years later Exactly 50 years later in 1994, Martin Reagan, who was a Sgt Tank Commander in 284...
One day the captain came and asked if I could billet some officers and two batmen and one cook, as they...
As we moved through Caen and then into the Falaise Gap following a Guards Armoured Division and supplying...
I flew over to Arnhem from Down Ampney on the second day as 1st Pilot of a Horsa glider, towed by a...
After a lot of hard work by Jos Koolwijk in Holland and Fred, Frank and myself in England we managed to...
Mr Denheijer then became a prisoner of war until the General Staff signed an agreement that Dutch forces...
Because the advance of the Allies in Europe was coming to a halt through lack of supplies, General...
On 16 April 1944 I was 11 years old and playing with friends outside our house in a small town called Sneek...
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