Hello all, Hopefully heading to Militracks later in the year. First time in the Operation Market Garden area. Apart from the obvious museums etc are there any good " hidden " blockhouses and fortifications that are worthwhile seeing. Thanks, Nick.
This books will help. Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to Operation Market Garden. Leopoldsburg-Eindhoven-Nijmegen-Arnhem-Oosterbeek The edition I have was updated in 2012.
If you're going to Overloon, then the Graves River Bridge is essential, and has a very good original blockhouse which saw action in Market-Garden.. The John S. Thompson Bridge, the 11th bridge of Operation Market Garden near Grave in the Netherlands | LandmarkScout If you really want to get into the Arnhem area, where most of the fighting was in woodland and houses, then you just can't beat the two volumes of After The Battle's 'Operation Market Garden : Then & Now'. This will take you toall the spots where the action happened, such as Hackett's Hollow, Baskeyville's VC action, etc etc. Forts in Holland tend to be the 19th Century 'Stat' forts at the major cities and ports. Remember the famous remark of Queen Wilhelmina pre-WW1 when the Kaiser invited her to view a parade of Guards. Kaiser : 'All our Guardsmen are at least 2m tall'. The Queen : 'Yes. And when we open our dykes, the waters are 3m deep...'
