Liberation Monument Overasselt

The Liberation Monument on Schoonenburgseweg in Overasselt, consisting of three iron parachutes.

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The text on the memorial: 'Landing area paratroopers and gliders at the liberation of Overasselt on Sunday, September 17, 1944.' The paratroopers were Americans and Poles, dropped here to take the bridges at Grave across the Maas and those at Heumen across the Maas-Waal Canal. The monument was unveiled in 1985.

Nijmegen in freedom

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