Operation Market Garden began here at 13.30 on September 17, 1944. Arriving in two waves, nearly two thousand paratroopers of the 508th PIR, dropped onto this DZ - T. Much unlike their jump into Normandy, this combat jump was made in broad daylight, in fact, on a picture-perfect day much like what is seen in these two photos.
On the 8th February 1945 this drop zone was employed again in the start of British General Montgomery's Operation Veritable. More than 300,000 British and Canadian soldiers were committed to the operation.. The monument commemorates both the landing of the 508th PIR in Operation Market Garden and the initiation of Operation Veritable. |
 Groesbeek Remembrance Monument
These fields were both the DZ for parachutists of the 508th and also the Landing Zone of Glider Forces. |  Groesbeek Remembrance Monument
Located at the corner of Wylerbaan and Derde Baan, a two-minute drive from the Liberation Museum. This side commemorates the British unit while the opposite side commemorates the 508th PIR. See below for inscription. |
"Here - 17/18 Sept 44 - Red Devils of the 508 Prcht Inf landed with artillery by parachute and glider. Devils - or angels? - came to shield the District of Nijmegen. Pilgrim, no matter the name or the colour, shield the vulnerable." |
