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OPERATION MARKET GARDEN - 2009
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Very Extended Market Garden Memorial
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Dutch
Aviation MEDIA BV 2010
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EINDHOVEN
AIRFORCE BASE
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| TROOPERS
TRANSPORTS & DROPPINGS |
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1- Eerde
Village
2- Eerde
Battle part 1
3- Eerde Battle part 2 4-
Eindhoven AFB |
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5- Parachutists Ginkel 6-
Cross over
7- Eerde
Camp
8- Eerde at night |
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9- Keep 'm Rolling 10-
Green Group
11- Hartenstein
12- Veterans jump |
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Thank you major Harry for your kind cooperation at Ehv Afb ! ) |
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| Well
folks... here it is ! One of THE airplane types that won WW II according
to Churchill |
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Dakota DC-3, or as military version: The C-47 Skytrain ! |
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every true aviation enthousiast this machine is a dream to see and fly ! |
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| Some
of the troopers admired it, and others were to tired fter the exhausting
exercises they had |
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| September
19th Eindhoven Airforce base was one long row of activities... |
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| British
and American Hercules transport planes kept on rolling over the platform
and runways... |
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and there were quite some ! |
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| All
these guys were to jump at the 'Ginkel Heath' such as every year |
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| All
kind of nation paratroopers took part in this, as these Polish men over
here. |
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| 501
Parachute Infantry Regiment (101 AB) was to jump around Veghel in 1944... |
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and this kind of actions were repeated over Ginkel as memorial by about a
1000 paratroopers |
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important is to check your gear over and over... |
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paratroopers joined this action as well... |
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and it's real nice to be part of this huge undertaking ... |
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all has been well prepared, ths enormous logistic job. |
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| The
men wait. In specific waves the paratroopers will show the public how it
looked like, 65 yeras ago |
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of them don't even know how the dropzone looks like. They don't care,
being specialists |
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| One
group marches to their Hercules C-130, as another group prepares and is
instructed |
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| Once
again the Polish here, wearing the 'Red Baret' ! |
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| Last
year 2008 the departure took place from Soesterberg AFB... |
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but due to so many UK and USAF large planes this had to be from Eindhoven
in 2009 |
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| Though
so lon ago, it still is important to show and tell todays people about
this part of history... |
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let's not forget that 65 years ago many guys like these lost their lives
for our freedom of today ! |
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USAF giants are based at Ramstein Germany, the 86th Air Wing... |
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This one here is a Hercules C-130J-30. |
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far as we were informed there were 4 US C-130, 3 RAF C-130, 1 BAF C-130, 1
Polish Casa... |
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2 Dakota's and one Mitchell Bomber taking action september
19th. |
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warnings sign says fire arms can be used in case security makes this
neccessary... |
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though it all happened relative calm and well organised... |
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as you can see at this last platform view. |
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show you the Polish Casa and the Mitchell bomber... |
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| These
planes mostly were seen in nice pictures and inscriptions. |
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| Enough
now, lets follow the UK Hercules to page 5 where we show something of LZ
Ginkel |
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| One
more look at this fine plane, later on more about it in this extended
photo reportage |
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us to page 5, the droppings ? |
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5 out of 12 photographic impressions
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Click the green button for the article in English |
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| Thank you
Major Harry for your kind cooperation at Ehv Afb ! |