Name: Liberation Route Europe - Liberators like stars from the skies - Audiospot 9(EN) by LRE Foundation
Duration: 6 min 47 s
Description: On the 17th of September 1944, countless parachutists and gliders with military equipment landed here in Groesbeek. Operation Market Garden had begun. Many eyewitnesses recall the fierce fighting. Many kept a diary. Years later, Father Hoek from Groesbeek and Leutnant Bliss provide us with their still gripping accounts of those days.

On the 17th of September 1944, countless parachutists and gliders with military equipment landed here in Groesbeek. Operation Market Garden had begun. Many eyewitnesses recall the fierce fighting. Many kept a diary. Years later, Father Hoek from Groesbeek and Leutnant Bliss provide us with their still gripping accounts of those days.

Liberation Route Europe - Liberators like stars from the skies - Audiospot 9(EN)

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