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25 unusual facts about Arnhem


16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS

A Kampfgruppe of the 16th Training and Replacement Battalion was based in Arnhem and took part in Operation Market Garden.

1985 Women's European Volleyball Championship

It was hosted in several cities in the Netherlands from September 29 to October 6, 1985, with the final round held in Arnhem.

4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards

The regiment later participated in the battle for the Falaise pocket, and as part of the armoured forces in Operation Market Garden - the regiment pushing as far as Driel, on the south bank of the Rhine a couple of miles from Arnhem.

84th Flying Training Squadron

In September 1944, the squadron contributed to the Allied victory in the Arnhem-Nijmegen airborne landings; notably, they suppressed numerous ground positions during the airborne assault and were credited with saving scores of American and British troop transports.

9 Parachute Squadron RE

With the exception of two gliders that crash landed, the remainder of the unit landed safely at Arnhem, where they played an important role in the defence of the bridge.

ABC Warriors

The immensely strong Mongrol was originally commander of an ABC paratrooper platoon, and the only survivor (save Zippo) of the disastrous drop into Volgan territory at Vilnus – so disastrous it was nicknamed Zarnhem after Arnhem.

Annelies Nuy

Nuy was born in Doornenburg, studied fashion and "new media" at the Academy for Applied Arts in Arnhem, and in 1997 launched one of the first fashion websites.

Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle

The Albemarle was originally designed as a medium bomber, but never served in that role, instead being used for general and special transport duties, paratroop transport and glider towing, including significant actions such as Normandy and the assault on Arnhem during Operation Market Garden.

Albemarles took part in many of the major British airborne operations, such as the invasion of Sicily and of Normandy and the assault on Arnhem during Operation Market Garden.

Barak Yitzhaki

While Itzhaki and the club were in training in Arnhem, the Netherlands, a representative of Racing Genk showed up at the hotel with an improved offer of USD $500,000.

Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far

Operations are made up of a series of battles (up to five), and depict an operation spanning several days in a specific locale (such as the offensive at the Arnhem Bridge).

The "battle" depicts a single one-day engagement, such as the taking of the Arnhem rail bridge (Battle of Arnhem).

Sector campaigns take place in one of the three sectors: Arnhem, Nijmegen, or Eindhoven.

CSA International

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David Kenyon Webster

Later in this campaign, he was wounded in the leg by machine gun fire during an attack in the no-man's land called "the Island", near Arnhem, where the company was relocated after Operation Market Garden ended.

DB Class 215

One high profile working in the 1980s was the D 216/217 "Austria-Express" ( from Klagenfurt via Graz/Krefeld to Amsterdam) between Krefeld central station (Hauptbahnhof Hbf.) and Arnhem, the Netherlands.

European Board of Urology

The European Board of Urology (EBU) is the professional urological (genito-urinary surgery) education and regulation authority in Europe, with head offices at Arnhem, The Netherlands.

Green politics

In June 1970 in the Netherlands a group called Kabouters won 5 of the 45 seats on the Amsterdam Gemeenteraad (City Council), as well as two seats each on councils in The Hague and Leeuwarden and one seat apiece in Arnhem, Alkmaar and Leiden.

HSL-Oost

HSL-Oost (Dutch: Hogesnelheidslijn-Oost, English: High-Speed Line East) is the name of the now-cancelled high-speed railway line from Amsterdam to Germany via the Dutch cities of Utrecht and Arnhem.

In Times Before the Light

On October 29, 2011, Nagash did a one-time only performance of the entire album at the Aurora Infernalis III festival in Arnhem, Netherlands.

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

The museum houses many important breakthrough paintings of the Papunya movement and Arnhem land artists.

Medal of Honor: Frontline

Lt. Patterson embarks to destroy the aircraft, however en route he has to cross the Nijmegen Bridge, disarm explosives, and send supplies to the British 1st Airborne in Arnhem.

Paul de Sorbait

He practiced as a physician in Rome, Cologne, and Arnhem, and in August, 1652, was made a member of the medical faculty of the University of Vienna.

Swimming at the 1980 Summer Paralympics – Women's 3 × 50 metre medley relay CP C

The Women's 3x50 metre medley relay CP C was one of the events held in swimming at the 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem.

The Kovenant

On October 29, 2011, Nagash did a one-time only performance of their debut album at the Aurora Infernalis III festival in Arnhem, Netherlands.


21st Army Group

The airborne formations were then to be relieved by armoured forces advancing rapidly northwards through Eindhoven and Nijmegen to Arnhem, opening the north German plains, and the industrial Ruhr Valley, to the Allies.

Angelique Westerhof

Angelique Westerhof (1969, Vorden, the Netherlands) is the director of the Dutch Fashion Foundation and co-founder of the fashion master course Fashion Institute Arnhem.

Bennekom

In the night of 6/7 March 1945, SS Officer Hanns Albin Rauter, the leader of the Sicherheidsdienst, ‘Security Service’, in the Netherlands, was badly wounded in a mistaken ambush (intended to acquire a German lorry) at the Woeste Hoeve on his way from Didam via Arnhem to Apeldoorn.

Bocholt–Wesel railway

In 1856, the Holland Line was opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME), but ran from Wesel along the Rhine via Emmerich to Arnhem, missing Bocholt.

David Lord

However, the airborne forces that dropped on 17 September were not aware that the 9th SS and 10th SS Panzer divisions were also near Arnhem for rest and refit.

Doetinchem

Doetinchem is served by rail services from Arnhem by the regional train to Winterswijk with two stations, one in the city centre – Doetinchem and Doetinchem De Huet lying to the west between the suburbs of De Huet and Dichteren.

Dordrecht railway station

For Ede, Arnhem travel to Rotterdam Centraal and change onto a train towards Utrecht Centraal.

Duisburg–Dortmund railway

The Oberhausen Station was also at the beginning of a line opened on 20 October 1856 to Arnhem via Wesel and Emmerich am Rhein, popularly known as the Holland line.

Electoral division of Arnhem

Arnhem is an almost entirely rural electorate, covering 99,269 km², and taking in the towns of Alyangula, Angurugu, Barunga, Beswick, Ngukurr, Numbulwar and Milingimbi.

Gillean Maclaine

By 1944 he was serving as Section Commander, F Squadron ( No. 2 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment, part of the Airborne Forces at Arnhem.

Humber Armoured Car

A captured vehicle (a Mk IV) was used by the Aufklärungs Abt of the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen at Arnhem.

Johan Huizinga

He died in De Steeg in Gelderland, near Arnhem, just a few weeks before Nazi rule ended, and he lies buried in the graveyard of the Reformed Church at 6 Haarlemmerstraatweg in Oegstgeest.

John Killick

He served in the British Army during World War II, first in the Suffolk Regiment, later in the 1st Airborne Division in which he commanded the 89th Field Security Section (Intelligence Corps) at Arnhem.

Julian Jenner

On 14 June 2008, it was announced that Jenner signed a contract with Vitesse Arnhem, together with teammate Rogier Molhoek.

Leo-Hermann Reinhold

This delayed the allies from relieving the British at the Arnhem Bridge and provided sufficient time for the Germans to place a defensive line before the British which held them in Oosterbeek.

Lester Hiatt

::Deals with Aboriginal conceptions of the workings of nature, includingarchaeological evidence; discussing plants, animals, totemism, magic, magical use of songs; Manikay songs, Gidjingarli, Aranda, Arnhem Land.

Lionel Queripel

Later Captain Queripel was ordered to defend some woodland near the Wolfheze level crossing which was vital to the allied advance (Wolfheze is about 12km to the northwest of Arnhem Bridge but only a few hundred metres from the Drop and Landing Zones used).

Lique Schoot

Her work is included in several collections, corporate as well as private and in the Netherlands as well as abroad, e.g., Provinces of Gelderland, Delta Lloyd Amsterdam, UMC St. Radboud Nijmegen, OHRA Arnhem, Essent N.V., Municipal Archives of The Hague.

Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Hamm railway

Its western end connects over a two-track freight rail line to Oberhausen West and over a two-track freight and passenger line to Grafenbusch junction, where it connects over a single-track freight line to Oberhausen-Sterkrade via the Holland line, Oberhausen–WeselEmmerichArnhem, and a single-track passenger line (line 2272) to Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof.

Oberhausen–Arnhem railway

As a result it was proposed the new railway would run from Amsterdam via Amersfoort, Isselburg, Hamminkeln, Wesel and Duisburg to Cologne, avoiding large cities such as Utrecht and Arnhem in order to minimise the risk of floods disrupting the line.

Pieter de Carpentier

When Jan Carstenszoon (or Carstensz) and Willem van Coolsteerdt landed the Pera and the Arnhem on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula of New Holland (now Australia) in 1623, after the first discovery by Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken in 1606, they then named the 'Gulf of Carpentaria' after the Governor-General, Pieter de Carpentier.

Schagen

From Amsterdam Centraal these Intercity trains continue trough Utrecht Centraal either to Eindhoven and Maastricht or to Arnhem and Nijmegen.

Ter Horst

Kate ter Horst (1906–1992), a.k.a. Angel of Arnhem, Dutch woman who tended wounded soldiers during the Battle of Arnhem

Tina Live

The tracks were recorded from Turner's hugely successful 50th Anniversary Tour on March 21, 2009 live from the Gelredome in Arnhem, Netherlands.

Trolleybuses in Montreux/Vevey

Similar vehicles with the type designation AG300T were later supplied to the trolleybus systems in Esslingen am Neckar, Salzburg, Solingen and Arnhem.

Van Aemstel family

Cafes in Amsterdam, Breskens, Arnhem, and Majorca have been named Heren van Amstel after the dynasty.

Waalbrug

Unlike many other bridges from the same period and with the same construction, like the IJsselbrug near Zwolle, the Graafsebrug and the bridge near Arnhem, the Waalbrug is an arch bridge in the literal sense: all forces truly work on the two pylons.

Willem Boshoff

2005 saw his work exhibited at the 'Textures' exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA and in 2008 his work formed part of an exhibition curated by Stichting Sonsbeek in Arnhem, Netherlands.