Private tour – Battlefield Discovery

Private Tour - 2 Days

2-Day Market Garden Selected Highlights Tour

€900.00

Operatie Market Garden is still known as the largest airborne operation in history. In September 1944, three airborne divisions and one independent parachute brigade land in the Netherlands to seize the bridges around Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem. At the same time, British Second Army will launch an attack north and advance across these bridges to Harderwijk.

Highlights: 30 Corps breakout at the Belgian-Dutch border, US 101e Airborne Division around Eindhoven, IS 82e Airborne Division around Nijmegen, Britsish 1e Airborne Division and the Poles around Arnhem

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Market Garden – the Battle of Arnhem

€475.00

British 1st Airborne Division had already earned battle honors, but up till Arnhem had not fought on a divisional level. Think of the everywhere on the radar station of Bruneval, North Africa, Sicily, South Italy. Due to losses and long stay in Italy, the division was unable to participate in the invasion of Normandy. But she was ready for Operation Market Garden! What followed was a nine-day-long battle, much longer and much harder than the division had expected in planning.

Highlights: Drop and landing zones, ambush location Airborne Recce group, fighting around St-Elisabeth Hospital, John Frost bridge, Westerbouwing, Oosterbeek

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Market Garden – US 82nd Airborne Division at Nijmegen

€475.00

Gavin's 82nd Airborne Division was given a very difficult task to accomplish during Market Garden. Assigned an area that demanded the deployment of two divisions, the 82nd had to secure eleven bridges crossing two rivers and a canal whilst the Groesbeek Heights and an airborne army headquarters that landed with them necessitated troops held back for security. Soon after landing, Gavin's airborne troops were pushed to their limits to defend the division area against German counterattacks and simultaneously capture the bridges in Nijmegen in one of the most dramatic actions in American military history, in close cooperation with the British ground troops.

Highlights: Thompson bridge, Heumen lock bridge, Battle at Mook, Plasmolen outpost, Groesbeek drop zones, Devil's Hill, Nijmegen street fighting, Waal Crossing and the capture of the Waal bridges

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Market Garden – US 101st Airborne Division and Hell’s Highway

€475.00

On September 17, 1944, Operation Market Garden starts for the US 101st Airborne Divisions by dropping the three parachute infantry regiments near Son, Eerde and at Heeswijk Castle. The Germans in this area responded quickly and violently, interrupting the road several times. Heavy fighting broke out for possession of this road. The Americans soon called the road 'Hell's Highway'. Join us and discover the places heavily fought over to keep Hell's Highway open in September 1944

Highlights: Son, Best, St-Oedenrode, Schijndel, Koevering, Eerde, Heeswijk, Veghel

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Occupation and Liberation of Eindhoven

€200.00

Eindhoven was bombed twice by the Allies, once by the Germans. Occupied in May 1940 by Germans and liberated on September 18, 1944 by U.S. airborne troops during Operation Market Garden. Join this walking tour through the center of Eindhoven, hear the stories of occupation, persecution of the Jews, liberation and the bombing of Eindhoven, and learn what it was like for those who experienced it.

Highlights: Structure of the German occupation, Americans in Eindhoven, the German bombing of September 19, 1944, the Allied bombings in 1942/43, stumbling stones

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Market Garden – The Liberation of Nuenen, Gerwen, Nederwetten

€250.00

Market Garden, 20 September 1944. Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and a group of British tanks fought near Nuenen. Contrary to what the series shows, this was neither a random or an independent action. September 20 saw a planned and coordinated effort made by the British and Americans to drive the Germans away from the area east of the bridge at Son and subsequently from Nuenen. It was an effort in which several units fought over the course of two days, one of these being the famed E/506. During this bike tour you will learn about how soldiers and civilians experienced these events via a wide range of personal stories.

Highlights: German armour in Nuenen, the attack by E/506, the myth of Soeterbeekse Brug, Weatherby's action at Nederwetten, tank battle at Gerwen

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Market Garden – The 501st Parachute Infantry around Hell’s Highway

€475.00

The bridge at Son, the liberation of Eindhoven, and the fighting at Best are the most famous stories of the 101st Airborne Division during Operation Market Garden, popularized by books, films and TV series. Nevertheless, some of the toughest battles this division fought during this operation were not fought in that area, but around Veghel, Eerde and Schijndel. Initially the area of the 501st Parachute Regiment, no less than about three quarters of the division fought at some point in this area supported by British tanks. Come along and discover what happened here during the September days of 1944.

Highlights: misdrop at Heeswijk Castle, The Heeswijk Cannae maneuver, Attack on Schijndel, Eerde and the battle of the sand dunes, Koevering, Black Friday

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Band of Brothers - Easy Company - Market Garden

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Band of Brothers – Easy Company in The Netherlands Tour

€475.00

Who doesn't know the TV-series Band of Brothers? Join this battlefield tour and visit the locations where the story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment actually took place. This is a unique opportunity for you to join a guide who regularly tours with not only guests of the largest war museum in the world but also actors from the series, veterans and their families. Find out what actually happened and how this relates to the TV-series.

Highlights: The dropzone, the attack on the bridge at Son, Easy in Eindhoven, the attack Nuenen, the German counterattack at Veghel, the final road cut at Logtenburg, Heteren Crossroads, Operation Pegasus I, Coffin's Corner, Schoonderlogt Farm

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Market Garden – 101st Airborne Division and the Battle at Best

€200.00

Follow in the footsteps of H Company, 502 PIR, 101st Airborne Division who were ordered to capture the two bridges at Best during Operation Market Garden. This company soon ran into trouble and the fighting quickly escalated into a battle involving as many as four battalions of the 101st Airborne Division and is referred to as "The Battle At Best" by the Americans. It would prove to be one of the toughest battles the division fought during Operation Market Garden.

Highlights: The dropzone, initial engegement at Quatre-Bras, Jones' withdrawal, Cole's Monument, German counterattacks, Joe Mann Monument

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Market Garden – 2nd Army’s battles on the flanks of XXX Corps

€475.00

At 14:35 on September 17, 1944, Lieutenant Keith Heathcote of the Irish Guards commands "Driver, advance!" The Garden part of Operation Market Garden, the advance has started. However, more often than not the vital attacks on the flanks of XXX Corps remain unknown to the broader public. Attacks that progressed slowly and with great difficulty due to German resistance and that left the flanks of XXX Corps on their way to Nijmegen and Arnhem open, giving the Germans ample opportunity to cut off The Corridor - or Hell's Highway, as the American called it - again and again.

Highlights: Joe's bridge, German ambush, XXX Corps' advance to Eindhoven, Attack 53rd Welsh on left flank, Attack 3rd Infantry Division at Lille-St-Hubert, break out by 11th Armoured Division

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The Island – The 101st Airborne Division on The Island

€475.00

At the end of September, the American 101st Airborne Division will be transferred to the Betuwe - the stretch of land between Nijmegen and Arnhem, dubbed 'The Island' by Allied troops. Instead of returning to England and preparing for another airborne mission, they were ordered to defend this area during October and November 1944. On this static front, the Airbornes had to withstand fierce German counter-attacks and infiltrations, artillery shelling, dangerous patrols, rain, wind and bitter cold.

Hightlights: Coffin's Corner, The Incredible Patrol, Crossroads, Pegasus I, the German attack at Opheusden, the Battle of the Orchard

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The Hurtgen Forest – the green hell of the Hürtgenwald

€550.00

Three months of hard struggle for a 140 km2 hilly forest area southeast of Aachen. More than 50,000 losses on both sides were sustained in a forest area battle now regarded as unnecessary by most historians. Join us visiting the places where this all happened, hear the events that happened then, see the traces that are still visible, and learn what it was like for soldiers who fought and suffered in this battle.

Highlights: Vossenack, Kall Trail, Schmidt,Siegfried line bunkers, Hill 400, Hürtgen, Grosshau, Merode

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