“Hold the bridge for 2 or 3 days”
Arnhem - Market Garden
A bridge too far: from 17 to 25 September 1944 the Allied armies dropped three airborne divisions behind German lines to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine River and finish WW2 before Christmas. After 9 days of fierce fighting, the 1st Airborne troops were withdrawn from their last bridgehead on the north side of the Rhine in Oosterbeek. Understand the last German victory of the war and why this Allied offensive was doomed from the start.
"IT IS ALL A QUESTION OF BRIDGES"
The battlefield tours are in the larger Arnhem Region and include the actual dropzones. Additional tours can be done more south towards Nijmegen and Eindhoven.
These tours can be done on foot, by bike or by car (we can provide transport). They take from 2 hours to a whole day.
Add a museum or site visit to your battlefield tour, like:
-Hartenstein Airborne Museum visit
(2 hours)
-Arnhem Church and going op the church steeple (with the historic battle experience) (2 hours)
or any other local or regional museum.
Oosterbeek perimeter tours
We do 'Perimeter' tours around the Oosterbeek cauldron, from the landing grounds to the river, where Roy Urquhart and his Red Devils had their last stand, with possible visit to the Airborne and civilian cemeteries.