News / Commemoration 2000
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| Airborne Monument in Oosterbeek. |
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Friday 15th September: Director Airborne Museum, Wybo Boersma receives a decoration from the Major of Renkum. |
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Saturday 16th September: Demonstration of a 75 mm Pack Howitzer. These guns were in 1944 transported to Arnhem by gliders. |
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Saturday 16th September: Members of the demonstration free fall team Red Devils land next to the Airborne Monument opposite the Airborne Museum at Oosterbeek. |
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Sunday 17th September: The highlight during the annual memorial service in the Airborne Cemetery is the laying of flowers by pupils of local elementary schools on the graves of the dead. |
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Sunday 17th September: Veterans during the memorial service in the Airborne Cemetery at oosterbeek. |
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Sunday 17th September: The three members of the clergy during the memorial service. Reverend Van Soest, Reverend Boyce, Pastor Wiendels |
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Monday 18th September: The urn with the ases of Tom H. Owen, pilot of a Horsa Glider during the Battle, is interred in the Airborne Cemetery. |
Photographs: Berry de Reus