"Operation Berlin 2007" It was at this site, near the old Lonsdale Church in Oosterbeek where the British 1st Airborne evacuated the Perimeter across the Rhine River on the night of 25/26 September 1944. On a sunny Sunday in September 2007, 30 or so people participated in an annual re-enactment of the event as a tribute.
The Old Church then and now.....
Monument at the Crossing Site
The Crossing Site
Busted! If I may paraphrase Bart... "In a country where you can walk into certain cafe's and openly order and smoke a marijuanna cigarette it is kind of silly that it is illegal to swim across a river." In the end, the Police gave up, civil disobedience ruled, and with the help of a small boat to make the crossing semi-legal, the swim took place anyway.
Bart and I about to take the plunge
Bart and I in the water.
On the other side. Flowers in hand, on our way to the monument outside Driel for a small ceremony.
Enjoying an adult beverage after the swim.