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The bombing of Nijmegen on 22 February 1944 was a target-of-opportunity aerial ... Onno Havermans "Het bombardement was geen vergissing - Nijmegen leed zwaar ...
c. 880 civilian deaths during the Bombing of Nijmegen, [6] 57 civilian deaths in Arnhem, [7] 40 civilian deaths in Enschede, [7] 1 civilian death in Deventer. [ 7 ] Operation Argument , [ 1 ] after the war dubbed Big Week , [ 1 ] was a sequence of raids by the United States Army Air Forces and RAF Bomber Command from 20 to 25 February 1944, as ...
The Battle of Nijmegen, also known as the Liberation of Nijmegen, occurred from 17 to 20 September 1944, as part of Operation Market Garden during World War II.. The Allies' primary goal was to capture the two bridges over the Waal River at Nijmegen – the road route over the Waalbrug (Waal Bridge) and Nijmegen railway bridge – and relieve the British 1st Airborne Division and Polish 1st ...
Hitler ordered the Nijmegen bridges to be destroyed, in the hope that supplies and reinforcements to the Allies would be hampered, and to enable a German counterattack to retake the bridgehead. Various attempts at destroying both bridges proved a costly failure, particularly to the Luftwaffe, who launched many sorties – in one day forty-six ...
17 to 20 September – Battle of Nijmegen; 17 to 26 September – Battle of Arnhem; 17 Sep: The British Second Army launches the offensive from Beeringen [1] Large Allied airborne landings in North Brabant, in the Reich of Nijmegen, and near Arnhem [1] The Dutch government orders a general railway strike [1] The Reichskommissariat is relocated ...
XXX Corps's advance north from Nijmegen was delayed due to the failure, in the Battle of Nijmegen, to secure the bridge before the ground troops arrived and the British were not relieved on time. After four days, the small British force at the bridge was overwhelmed and the rest of the division was trapped in a small pocket north of the river.
After withdrawing south of the Nederrijn the front line stabilised on the "Island" (the polder between Nijmegen and Arnhem) over the winter. [2] The residents of Arnhem and Oosterbeek (over 450 of whom had been killed in the battle) were evicted from their homes which were then systematically looted of anything of value to aid refugees in ...
The Allied bombings of Amsterdam-Noord took place in July 1943 during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.Three strategic bombing attacks by Allied Forces were aimed at the former Fokker Aircraft Factory in the northern part of Amsterdam, which was of interest as the factory was confiscated by the Nazis and employees were forced to produce aircraft for the Luftwaffe.