NOW and THEN

Crash site Shatzi
October 1943
Priest Joseph Willenborg visiting the Fassbender family where the downed  Boeing B17 bomber "Shatzi" crashed.
Crash site in 2024
2024
The same house at the Oude Baan 5. 
I compagnie 501 bij molen
September 1944
Soldiers of I company 501 PIR take positions around the windmill.
2024
Today this is the spot where the Geronimo monument is located.
Every year on September 17th, we commemorate and celebrate the liberation of Eerde here.
Dorpsstraat 1944
September 1944
Soldiers of the 501 PIR (in Dorpsstraat, Eerde) on their way to Veghel.
Kapelstraat Eerde
2024
Same location, nowadays called Kapelstraat.
Kerk 1944
September 1944
The remanis of the church steeple after the battle of September 17th, 1944.




2024
The restoration of the church was completed in 1963.
Dorpsstraat
September 1944
Dorpsstraat with damaged farm houses and an abandoned field kitchen.
2024
Same location now, Kapelstraat (east side).

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