Arnhem (Netherlands)

Arnhem is the Gelderland city on the Rhine whose bridge became the goal of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, and it...

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Arnhem is the Gelderland city on the Rhine whose bridge became the goal of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, and its maps run from peacetime guidebook plans to the airborne battle. Baedeker's plans of the environs, published between 1897 and 1910, follow the town towards Velp, while city plans of 1933 and 1961 show the built-up area beside the river. A Royal Navy intelligence map of 1944 covers the Gelderland gate around Arnhem and Nijmegen, and later diagrams trace the landing and supply zones, fly-in routes and fighting around the bridge. Prints of 1903 show the Groote Kerk and the landscape near the town before its wartime destruction.

Arnhem is the Gelderland city on the Rhine whose bridge became the goal of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, and its maps run from peacetime guidebook plans to the airborne battle. Baedeker's plans of the environs, published between 1897 and 1910, follow the town towards Velp, while city plans of 1933 and 1961 show the built-up area beside the river. A Royal Navy intelligence map of 1944 covers the Gelderland gate around Arnhem and Nijmegen, and later diagrams trace the landing and supply zones, fly-in routes and fighting around the bridge. Prints of 1903 show the Groote Kerk and the landscape near the town before its wartime destruction.

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