Holland & Bastogne 1944–45
Drop Zone B — Sonse Heide
GuideHolland & Bastogne 1944–45
AreaHell's Highway — Eindhoven to Uden
Time to allow20 min
LocationExact spot known
GPS51.53200, 5.47000
The story
The heath where the 506th came down on 17 September in near-perfect order. Nothing marks the exact spot; the flat open ground is the point.
What to look for
Compare with Normandy: daylight, no flooding, the company together in an hour.
Nearby sites
- Son bridge & 101st Airborne memorial · 3 km
- Wings of Liberation Museum, Best · 3 km
- Sint-Oedenrode · 4 km
- Joe Mann memorial, Best · 5 km
- Koevering · 6 km
- Airborne Memorial, Eindhoven (Woensel) · 6 km
All 48 sites in Holland & Bastogne 1944–45 →
Easy Company: Holland & Bastogne
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge, following Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne: Hell's Highway, Nijmegen and the Island, the Bois Jacques at Bastogne, the cemeteries of the Ardennes and Haguenau in Alsace.
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