A Bridge Too Far..................

[NoncomRetired]

I lost all my photos of the John Frost Bridge in Arnheim. The hardtop road leading up to that bridge on the Arnheim side still have some british MIAs over them.
Here is a photo of the bridge in Nijmegen that the 82nd took or so the movie portrayed. There was and still is a railroad bridge that runs along side the traffic bridge about 300 meters away. When Maj Cook of his 504th crossed in boats and attacked the railroad bridge, by the time they realized the mistake, the Guards Div was already across the mined traffic bridge.
When I visited the crossing area, both sides, that was a goosebumps experience.

BTW, do you remember the lake in the park between the two streets leading up to the bridge and from the bridge, supposedly there is a FW-190 in it, it was shot down, hit one of the two church spirals and went into that lake or so I was told by a dutrch friend of mine that had a basement full of dugup American, british and german weapons and many he had restored. He searched for American MIAs and had found a few when I first met him.

(My mistake, that is the John Frost Bridge now that I noticed the two block houses on the left and right.) I found my photos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is the Pegasus sign on the bridge.

Originally Posted by Olle

My brother and I went to Holland many years ago, and when we got to Arnhem we decided to see the bridge. For some reason (probably the Dutch beer) we couldn't find it, so after half an hour of zig-zaging through the wrong parts of town we decided to give up and get on our way south. Once we turned a corner onto one of the main drags, there it was. It was kind of weird to see it, it looked just like in old pictures and it was like driving into a history book.