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The cemetery contains 658 fallen service personnel; 648 are Commonwealth soldiers (seven unidentified [citation needed]) and one Dutch grave (of G.M. Stönner of the Princess Irene Brigade). [1] In 1982, an employee of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission was also buried in the cemetery. [citation needed]
Bergen op Zoom Canadian War Cemetery – 1,118 soldiers (of whom 971 are Canadian) Brunssum War Cemetery – 328; Driel cemetery of the protestant church – 1 soldier; Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery – 700 soldiers; Enschede 50 soldiers WWII, 11 soldiers WWI; Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery – 2,610 soldiers (of whom 2,339 are Canadian)
After the end of the Cold War, Eindhoven was transformed into a military transport base. Initially it was home to F27-300M Troopship aircraft. Over the years, Fokker 50, Fokker 60, McDonnell Douglas KDC-10, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Gulfstream IV aircraft were stationed at the air base. The Fokker and KDC-10 aircraft have now been retired.
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The German War Graves Commission (Volksbund) cooperates with and uses the files of German Federal Archives, former Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) in Berlin (Register of German soldiers killed in action or who became prisoners of war). This bureau collects and preserves data and dog tags of active German soldiers
The commission he said administers an array of Jewish graves, Holocaust victims, World War I veterans, prisoners of war, that are in German cemeteries in Germany, Europe and all over the world.
Operation Oyster was a bombing raid made by the Royal Air Force (RAF) on 6 December 1942 upon the Philips works at Eindhoven, Netherlands.The Philips company was a major producer of electronics equipment, including vacuum tubes for radio communication.
The majority of the fallen buried at Henri-Chapelle were killed during the Allied push in Germany during late 1944 and early 1945. The fallen from two key military engagements fill the cemetery; the First United States Army's drive through northern France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg into Germany in September 1944; and the Battle of the Bulge (including the Battle of Hurtgen Forest ...