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And the liberators were the Old Hickory division.
After landing in Normandy, the brave soldiers of the 30th infantry division moved through France and Belgium until on the 12th of September 1944 they came across the Belgian Dutch border and on the 13th the city of Maastricht was liberated by the US army.
In honor of it being 75 years ago, a lot of celebrations and remembrances are being organized. A group of Dutch runners is as we speak running in a relay manner the route from the beaches of France until they liberated the first part of the Netherlands. They will be wearing a torch to remember the US soldiers whose sacrifice made it possible to liberated the Netherlands/Limburg.
In the coming weeks, there is almost no city or town who does not have a remembrance event/liberation event to remember the Old Hickory Division and their courageous sacrifice to liberate my part of the Netherlands.
And with the American memorial cemetery and the fact that US troops remained in Limburg until the war in the West was truly over and done with.
My mother can remember how her parents had US soldiers lodging in their house as a thank you for them kicking the nazi's out of our region.
So thank you again, all the brave soldiers of the 30th infantry division for your brave battle to liberate the Dutch and defeat Adolf and his cronies.
If I can score pictures or video's from these remembrances/memorials I will post them, even if the language is Dutch LOL.
After landing in Normandy, the brave soldiers of the 30th infantry division moved through France and Belgium until on the 12th of September 1944 they came across the Belgian Dutch border and on the 13th the city of Maastricht was liberated by the US army.
In honor of it being 75 years ago, a lot of celebrations and remembrances are being organized. A group of Dutch runners is as we speak running in a relay manner the route from the beaches of France until they liberated the first part of the Netherlands. They will be wearing a torch to remember the US soldiers whose sacrifice made it possible to liberated the Netherlands/Limburg.
In the coming weeks, there is almost no city or town who does not have a remembrance event/liberation event to remember the Old Hickory Division and their courageous sacrifice to liberate my part of the Netherlands.
And with the American memorial cemetery and the fact that US troops remained in Limburg until the war in the West was truly over and done with.
My mother can remember how her parents had US soldiers lodging in their house as a thank you for them kicking the nazi's out of our region.
So thank you again, all the brave soldiers of the 30th infantry division for your brave battle to liberate the Dutch and defeat Adolf and his cronies.
If I can score pictures or video's from these remembrances/memorials I will post them, even if the language is Dutch LOL.