Netherlands

My Brother - Walter William Whitmill - Escapes From Arnhem

John and his brother Walter were both in the Airbourne Division - John signed up first and Walter was in...

Operation Infatuate

On the 1st November 1944, I was aboard a landing craft Headquarters, carrying the Deputy Senior Officer of...

Mary of Arnhem

Bill and others in the 13th Squadron were listening to music through an improvised amplifier, made with a...

THE TRENCHES: British Army in the Netherlands

I was on the frontline just before the river mars dug into the trenches. The trenches were dug in zig zags,...

Dutch Soldiers

My father was a plumber and, when the Dutch army came to Congleton, he worked on the conversions of the...

My Memory of the Liberation

I was hoping to get in touch with the young man who picked up and delivered our laundry somewhere in...

Gliders

He started his glider; it was a big glider with 80 other men of the first air born division. They...

Normandy & Arnhem

I'm looking for help with my webpage I've been interested in The Airborne Soldier for some time now...

Resistance in the Netherlands

Dear friends, I`m so sorry, I am afraid my English is too poor to tell my story. Just this:I was in the...

Your story edited and categorised

My grandmother got really nervous, but when they came to check her papers, a stranger told the German...

Arnhem, The Blackest Moment Of My Life

The 1st Airbourne Division as part of the Operation Market Garden took the bridge head after fierce combat...

Incident at The Grave Bridge.

John Gardner was a Paratrooper in the 82nd Airbourne. He went on to be part of the occupation force in...

The war starts, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands (1940)

I was living with my family in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the eldest of 11 children... When the German army...

operation Manna

Afterwards we flew through the streets in the Hague throwing out sweets and chocolates from the rear turret...

DAG en NACHT.

175 pages and a lot of stories and photo's to make clear for the young people what happenend during the...

arnhem

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