Battlefield Discovery

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Battlefield Discovery

Military Historian | Research, Battlefield Tours, Historical Consultancy | Market Garden, Overloon,
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Battlefield Discovery researches WW2 military history and provides guided tours and historical consultancy. Our specific focus is on the operations in North Western Europe between the Autumn of 1944 and the Spring of 1945: what we like to call the Rhine Campaign. Battlefield Discovery onderzoekt WO2 geschiedenis en geeft educatieve rondleidingen en historisch consultancy. Onze focus ligt op de ope

raties in Noordwest Europa tussen de herfst van 1944 en de lente van 1945; wat wij ook wel samenvatten als de Rijn Campagne.

11/12/2024

A few photos of yesterday’s 2nd day of a superb tour with US clients, visiting Aachen and the Hurtgen Forest. We started the day by looking at the capture of Aachen by US 1st Div, visiting the city proper, Crucifix Hill and Dawson’s Ridge. After that we turned to the exploits of US 28th Div and 2nd Rangers in the Hurtgen Forest, visiting Vossenack, the Kall Trail, Kommerscheidt and Hill 400.

Photos:
1 and 2 - A German air raid shelter in Aachen, battle damage of Battle of Aachen still visible
3 - Dawson’s Ridge looking back to Eilendorf and Aachen
4. - the exposed ridge at Vossenack where the ill-fated 2/112th IR was duf in
5 and 6 - The (in)famous Kall Trail.

10/12/2024

Wet and foggy woods, bunker remnants and dragon teeth. Some of the things we explored yesterday on the Hurtgen Forest tour with four US guests. The weather greatly adding to understanding of what it was like.

03/12/2024

Ready for tonight’s lecture for the Wings of Liberation Museum in Best.

03/12/2024

80 years ago today, British 2nd Army captured Blerick in Op Guildford, the 1st use of the Armoured Breaching Force technique to break into heavily reinforced enemy strongholds with specialised armour and APC-borne infantry. It proved a massive success. Blerick was secured by 4pm.

Tonight, I will give a lecture on the events east of the Corridor between 21 Sept and 3 Dec 1944 at Wings of Liberation Museum. Op Guildford will fittingly be a key part of that talk.

01/12/2024

All ready for a talk about the Liberation of Eindhoven in September 1944 at the new location of the Hornemann Huis in Eindhoven.

26/11/2024

Last weekend’s tour in Bastogne with a group of Dutch men. Snow and fog strongly added to the atmosphere and to the understanding of the conditions in 1944, even though - unlike the men of the 101st then - we wore proper Winter clothing.

17/11/2024

Two times the Kall Trail. One photo after the battle of Nov 1944. The other photo was taken during yesterday’s Hürtgen Forest Tour, guiding a group of Dutch clients 80 years & 8 days after US 112th regiment withdrew back across the Kall.

16/11/2024

Who doesn’t like a bit of concrete on a Saturday morning. 😊 On tour with a group of Dutch guests in the Hurtgen Forest.

13/11/2024

While the story of the death of LtCol Cole (3/502 PIR) on 18 Sept 1944 is well-known, fewer people know that his German counterpart, Oberstlt Rink, was severely wounded that same day. Rink succumbed to his wounds less than two months later.

13/11/2024

On 5 Oct 1944, during vicious fighting in the woods west of Overloon, C/48 AIB, US 7th Armored Div lost a lot of men. Several, George Renda and Aloysius Gonsowski amongst them, went Missing In Action. It was not until 1977 that their remains were recovered from those woods. A small marker commemorates their names near that spot today.

10/11/2024

A nondescript field along the Meijel-Asten road in NL. It was here that on 28 Oct 1944 the father of today’s client was taken prisoner by Germans during the German counterattack in the Peel Marshes. Lt Clingan, AT platoon, A Company, 48th Armoured Infantry Battalion, US 7th Armored Division.

Bringing clients to place where their relatives were during WW2, esp where they had life-changing experiences such as at this place, is the summit of historical guiding and always an honour to do this job.

08/11/2024

A wonderful day out on the battlefield, following Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division during Operation Malret and on the Island. A tad chilly - though my Australian guests preferred the phrase “bloody damned cold, mate” - but we soldiered it and enjoyed a great tour.

07/11/2024

The Hochwald Gap ranges amongst the costliest battles fought by the 1st Canadian Army during WW2. During this tour, we guided members of the Algonquin Regiment in the footsteps of their forebears in Op Blockbuster, discussing their regiment’s actions near and in the Hochwald Gap and at Veen. A stunning day of regimental history.

04/11/2024

The bell in the dunes near The Hague at the commemorative site ‘Waalsdorpervlakte’, sounded each year on Dutch Remembrance Day on May 4th. The peacefulness and quietness of this site on this morning stand in stark contrast with the horrors that took place here between 1941-45.

04/11/2024

In the dunes near The Hague, the Germans executed and secretly buried over 250 civilians, mainly resistance fighters, during WW2. Today, a memorial marks the area where this happened. A solemn and sobering place to visit.

02/11/2024

22 year old Ivor Rowberry was one of the many British airborne soldiers killed during Operation Market Garden. Before he went into action, Ivor wrote a touching letter to his mother in case he would not make it. Me and always like to read that letter to guests to underline the feelings and thoughts of many who went to battle back then.

02/11/2024

The stairs at Arnhem Bridge still show war damage 80 years after the battle. A poignant reminder of the ferocity of the fighting here between late 17 and early 21 Sept 1944.

02/11/2024

Beautiful morning on DZ-X, with explaining the airborne landings on 17 Sept 1944, the start of Operation Market Garden.

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Battlefield Discovery researches and provides educational guided tours on militairy history. Specific focus lies on operations during World War 2 in North Western Europe. Market Garden, Overloon, Battle of the Bulge, Huertgenwald, Veritable, Rhine Crossings.