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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.
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)
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A USAF Boeing CT-43 73-1149, call sign IFO 21, of the 76th Airlift Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on an official trade mission, crashed on approach to Dubrovnik Airport, Croatia, killing United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 other people. The crash board findings, announced 7 June 1996, blamed the crash ...
A flight of four Lockheed F-104G Starfighters of the Aeronautica Militare Italiana (Italian Air Force) crash in formation into a field near the village of Ralingen near the border with Luxembourg, ~12 miles S of Bitburg, West Germany, shortly after take-off from Bitburg Air Base, killing all four pilots. The four jets flown by an Italian Air ...
The airborne soldiers, consisting of paratroops and glider-borne troops numbering around 35,000, [9] [10] were dropped at sites where they could capture key bridges and hold the terrain until the land forces arrived. The land forces consisted of ten armoured and motorised brigades with a similar number of soldiers.
West Germany: Frank Scarton [14] US Airman 8 August 1985 Rhein-Main Air Base: Edward Pimental [15] U.S. Army soldier 8 August 1985 Wiesbaden: Becky Bristol [14] U.S. Army civilian employee 8 August 1985 Rhein-Main Air Base: Karl Heinz Beckurts [16] Siemens manager 9 July 1986 Straßlach: Eckhard Groppler [16] Beckurts's driver 9 July 1986 ...
This cemetery is located in the village of Ysselsteyn in the municipality of Venray in Limburg, Netherlands, and is 32 km (20 mi) east of Eindhoven. Ysselsteyn is the largest Second World War German cemetery and is the only Nazi-German cemetery in the Netherlands. [1] Following the war, the Nazi soldiers were reburied in the cemetery.