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Arnhem 80th Anniversary
In September 2024 we remember Operation Market Garden with the 80th Anniversary of Arnhem. Join us on a 5 Day Tour to remember the actual anniversary of the start of the battle, or join us on a 4 Day tour for the commemorative weekend with the Airborne Drop and ceremony at the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery. On both tours we will also see some of the key Battle of Arnhem sites.
Tour Includes
- 3 or 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast
- Specialist Battlefield Guide
- Convenient local joining points
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Please choose your preferred 4 or 5 day itinerary
Local departure by coach, then to the Arnhem area for a three-night stay.
Today, we attend the annual Airborne Drop at Ginkel Heath, where modern Airborne forces and veterans make an annual parachute jump to commemorate the Anniversary. This is likely to be a very busy event. Later, we will tour some key sites on the Arnhem battlefield including Arnhem Bridge and the Oosterbeek area.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
This morning, we attend the 80th Anniversary of Arnhem and the commemorative service in the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery. Here, local school children lay flowers on the graves and veterans of the battle may be in attendance. In the afternoon, we continue with a battlefield tour of the Arnhem area, seeing the Oosterbeek Perimeter and the Oosterbeek Old Church.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
Return home.
Includes Breakfast
Local departure by coach, then to the Arnhem area for a four-night stay.
Today is the 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden. We will attend any major local ceremonies and visit the Landing and Drop Zones around Arnhem, where the 1st Airborne Division began their operations on this day in 1944. We will spend time at the Hartenstein Hotel, the battle headquarters of the Airborne, and now an important museum explaining the history of what happened here. Later, we visit Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
Today, we will follow the routes of Airborne forces towards Arnhem and see where German forces blocked their approach to Arnhem Bridge. At the Arnhem Bridge itself, we will look at this key aspect of the battle, walk on and around the area of the bridge, and see the nearby Visitor’s Centre. Later, we will examine the battle of the Oosterbeek Perimeter, seeing the streets where the fighting took place, the White House, Hackett’s Hollow, and the ground where the Border Regiment fought, witnessing a lot of evidence of the fighting from 1944.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
This morning, we look at the fighting in the approach to Arnhem where ground units of 30 Corps made their advance and US Airborne forces were in action. We travel to Grave Bridge, where a linkup between American Paratroopers and British soldiers occurred, and then travel across to the important Groesbeek Heights area and visit the Groesbeek Memorial, where the Missing of Arnhem are commemorated. Later, we will visit Nijmegen Bridge, which was captured by 30 Corps and was where American Airborne soldiers crossed the river in assault boats. We then look at the final stages of the battle and the evacuation of Arnhem from the area of the Old Church at Oosterbeek across to Driel on the other side of the Lower Rhine.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
Return home.
Includes Breakfast
Accommodation
You will stay for three or four nights at a minimum 3-star hotel such as the Hotel Oud London in Zeist or the Wageningen International Conference Centre in Gelderland.
