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Lifer
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The other photo is of the famous 'Crossroads' just down the street from the museum. Most fought over place in Oosterbeek. Two of the corner places were field hospitals, one german, one british. I met up with my dutch buddies in the british one which was and is still a coffee shop. Turn left at the crossroad and it takes you to that cemetery which is the same cemetery about in the photos. You can still see bullet holes in the bricks inside and a mural covers one wall of the inside wounded during the battle. ![]() http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem...rderMortar.htm I had their autographs in the book "The History of the Border Regt", sadly I don't have that book anymore, it was filled with autographs and a gift from the Border Regt for my contribution to the museum of the helmet that belonged to a Pvt Stanley that was KIA and is still MIA. I corresponded with his hole mate when he was shot through the head by a sniper. Stanley was buried in that foxhole and is still there. I corresponded with his sister also and even though his foxhole could be pinpointed by his holemate, Stanley's brother wanted him left there. Benny and I never got the chance to search the ground for him, family wishes. His sister sent me a war time photo of her brother which I gave to the museum also. |
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