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
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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.
Highway Bridge at Arnhem After B-26 Bombing and A-20 Havocs
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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
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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.
Dutch Welcome – Dutch Seen Waving to Welcome Allied Forces on 9/18/44 as they Drop Supplies for Operation Market Garden
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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.
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.