Name: Market Garden - US 101st Airborne Division and Hell's Highway - Battlefield Discovery
SKU: 1111
Price: 473.00 EUR
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Market Garden – US 101st Airborne Division and Hell’s Highway

€473.00

At 13:00 on September 17, 1944, the three parachute infantry regiments of US 101st Airborne Divisions landed on Son and Schijndel Heaths 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

Inclusive: ✓ Private guide ✓ Tailored itinerary ✓ Tour booklet

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Private tour - full day

SKU: 1111 Categories: 101st Airborne Division, 107. Panzer-Brigade, 15/19 Hussars, 44 Royal Tank Regiment, 59. Infanterie-Division, Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6, Kampfgruppe Chill, Kampfgruppe Richter, Kampfgruppe Walther, Schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 559 Tags: Market Garden, Private tour

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After their baptism of fire in Normandy, the American 101st Airborne Divisions were ordered to secure the bridges between Eindhoven and Veghel in Operation Market. A total of nine bridges over a distance of 22 kilometers as the crow flies. The Americans had to secure these bridges and the road between them so that British XXX Corps could advance to Nijmegen, Arnhem and beyond on this road. In this battlefield tour you will follow the operations of the 101st Airborne Division to keep this road open under heavy German counterattacks, and discover just how crucial and difficult the task of this division was.

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Operation	Operation Market Garden
Country	The Netherlands
Type of tour	Private tour
Manner of transportation	Car or minibus, Coach bus
Date	To be confirmed
Start time	09:00 hours
Location start point	To be confirmed
Duration	1 day
Included	Private guide, Tour booklet