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Operation Market Garden – Landing Zone for 501st PIR of 101st Airborne in Best, Holland Area + Supply Chutes the Farmer Dug up from Property after War
Notes: Looking away from farmer’s property at the drop zone and landing zone fields. The owner was a young boy during the war and gave the paratroopers water from the spigot on the property as they ran to their rally point.
Operation Market Garden – Landing Zone for 501st PIR of 101st Airborne in Best, Holland Area
Notes: Farmer labeled his roof to help paratroopers find landing zone.
C-47s of 9th Troop Carrier Command Lined up on Field in Holland – September 44
Notes: Not sure why they were in Holland just after Market Garden. Can see planes in air. Gets at scale of war.
Highway Bridge at Arnhem After B-26 Bombing and A-20 Havocs
Notes: Both ends of Bridge Rest on River while Middle Section Broke and Fell into Neder River. Negative received 11/27/44. Probably captured around Market Garden.
Netherlands Supplies Dropped form Air to Paratroopers Fighting in Area near Best, Holland 9/18/44
Notes: You can see the chutes are different colors to designate different types of supplies. Ground is very flat and looks like England – it’s why Holland was chosen.
Netherlands Supplies Dropped form Air to Paratroopers Fighting in Area near Best, Holland 9/18/44
Notes: Bombers far into the horizon dropping supplies. Some chutes already on drop zone.
Netherlands Supplies Dropped form Air to Paratroopers Fighting in Area near Best, Holland 9/18/44
Notes: You can see 2 chutes coming out. Looks like they are turning to get out of area near Best.
Flying Low, Lib Crew Spots Wrecked C-47 and Dinghy in Lake 9/18/44
Notes: On Operation Market Garden supply run.
B-24s Over Flooded Dutch Countryside on Way to Airborne Army on 9/18/44
Note: There are accounts from guys in the 44th of the flooded country in the Netherlands.
Dutch Welcome – Dutch Seen Waving to Welcome Allied Forces on 9/18/44 as they Drop Supplies for Operation Market Garden
Notes: 44th narratives about seeing Dutch wave below. Quintessentially Dutch scene with windmills. People standing on base of windmill and on ground. Most Dutch farms had several farm houses clustered around windmill.
Drop Zones and Landing Zones for Market Garden
Notes: Labeled boundaries of drop zone and Paulshoef where the 506th landed and where 44th dropped supplies. Think the forest below is where we see some of the photos w/ bombers flying low over dense tree-filled area.
Operation Market Garden Drop Zones 44th Dropped at Best to 101st AB (Source – Online, Google Search)
Notes: 44th BG dropped to the 101st (having trouble figuring out which it was).
Drop Zones and Landing Zones for Market Garden
Notes: 9/18/44. Not clear which of the drop zones the 44th went to.
