Joris Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Son (near Eindhoven) 1944 & 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 Nijmegen 1944 & 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 Then & Then + 1 week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 Utrechtseweg in Arnhem 1944 & 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 "Lonsdale" Church in Oosterbeek 1944 & 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 Hartenstein Airborne HQ 1944 & 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 Elizabeth Hospital 1944 & 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Very nice Joris great to see those photo's. it's good to see all that history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Wonderful. I have got to get there sooner or later....I hope this snap of a well created copy of the road sign (I can hardly call it a milestone!) does not offend. This is Ian from Just Ordinary Men. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 Thanks lads and I've added a third picture of the roadside graves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 Arnhem bridge, September 1944 - 2004 (I know, taken from the wrong side of the road) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 Not really a Then & Now picture but it's the same location. Polish Para brigde lands on Dropzone O near Overasselt on September 23 (?) 1944 and the dropzone as it is now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 thanks for sharing joris ,have visited these sites and shall one day return Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Joris, the 82nd jumped at Overasselt (505 I think). The Poles jumped at Driel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Joris, the 82nd jumped at Overasselt (505 I think). The Poles jumped at Driel. Great comparison shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 17, 2008 Author Share Posted September 17, 2008 Joris, the 82nd jumped at Overasselt (505 I think). The Poles jumped at Driel. Only a part of the polish brigade was dropped at Driel, most planes turned back due to a bad weather warning but not all planes heard this or ignored it and flew on. I've taken this from the Pegassus Archive: After two days of cancellations and frustration, the one thousand five hundred and sixty-eight men of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade Group finally took-off on Thursday 21st September. True to form, however, their departure was not at all a satisfactory affair as they were again delayed by fog and the weather was far from ideal when the first of their one hundred and fourteen C-47's, of the 314th and 315th Troop Carrier Groups, took to the air. Conditions were so poor, in fact, that the aircraft first struggled to gain altitude, then they were ordered to return to their bases because it became clear to those on the ground that, by the time the aircraft returned from the drop, landing conditions would be dangerous. A coded message, ordering the recall, was transmitted to the airborne armada, however the aircraft had been issued with the wrong codes and so it was left to the judgement of individual crews as to whether or not they were indeed being asked to abort. As a result of this confusion, forty-one aircraft, returned to their bases but, due to the poor conditions, most put down at the first airfield they could find; one aircraft became so lost that it landed in Ireland. The five hundred Polish paratroopers in these aircraft endured a further delay of forty-eight hours before, at last, they were dropped near Grave, deep into the 82nd Airborne Division's area, on Saturday 23rd September; the drop zones closer to the Rhine being considered too hazardous at this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Only a part of the polish brigade was dropped at Driel, most planes turned back due to a bad weather warning but not all planes heard this or ignored it and flew on. I've taken this from the Pegassus Archive: I stand corrected.:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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