Holland & Bastogne 1944–45
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Town · Hell's Highway
GuideHolland & Bastogne 1944–45
AreaHell's Highway — Eindhoven to Uden
TypeTown · Hell's Highway
Time to allow20 min
LocationExact spot known
GPS51.56480, 5.45990
The story
The 502nd's town on the corridor; the highway through it is the original road. A good place to feel how narrow the whole operation was.
What to look for
One road, two ditches, flat fields either side.
Nearby sites
- Koevering · 3 km
- Drop Zone B — Sonse Heide · 4 km
- Wings of Liberation Museum, Best · 6 km
- Son bridge & 101st Airborne memorial · 6 km
- Veghel — canal bridges · 7 km
- Joe Mann memorial, Best · 7 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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