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tekst: Somerset L.I. (Light Infantry) Vets, Oosterbeek, me (Frank) and Brig.

Twee aan elkaar gebonden witte linten, gelegd op 4 mei 2000 bij het Nationaal Monument op de Dam. Het bovenste lint is v.z.v. een gouden opdruk. Onderste lint is blanco. Linten zijn aan de uiteinden schuin afgeknipt. Aan een zijde tot strik samengebonden met ijzerdraad. IJzerdraad gebogen t.b.v. bevestiging aan krans.

Herdenkingspenningen. (v.l.n.r.) voorzitter van de Stichting Welcome Again Veterans Gert Jan van 't Holt, oud burgemeester mr. W.H. Enklaar en de voorzitter Dick Beldman van de plaatselijke bond van Oud-strijders , ontvingen begin mei van de burgemeester D.J. Verhoeven een herdenkingspenning van het Nationaal Commité 4 en 5 mei ter gelegenheid van 50 jaar vrijheid. Het drietal verdiende de onderscheiding ...

Honoring veteran of La Fayette Escadrille. A French woman places flowers on the grave of Kiffin rockwell, a member of the La Fayette Escadrille shot down in Alsace in 1916. The American flyer's dying wish was to be buried in Luxcuil-los-Bains, where the escadrille, formed of U.S. volunteers, was officially received into the French Army April 20, 1916.

Nazi veteran captured at Cherbourg. A middle-aged German veteran captured at Cherbourg is shown on his arrival at a British port en route to a prisoner-of-war camp in England. American forces on the Cherbourg Peninsula took 43,000 German prisoners from D-Day June 6, 1944, to July 3, 1944.

Pacific veterans reach U.S. on the day that marked the end of the war Wounded veterans of the Pacific war, wearing shoulder casts, express their joy aboard a U.S. Navy transport which docked in New York on August 14, 1945, the day that marked the end of the war. At 7:00 P.M. (eastern War Time) on August 14, U.S. President Harry S. Truman announced that the Japanese had accepted the Allies unconditional ...

' Veterans Prepare For Civilian Life. Canadian Pacific Volunteers who were interested in taking up farming on return to civilian life were taken on a tour of the Canadian Experimental farm in Ottawa recently. Shown left to right, is Gnr. Earl Prince of Marchwell, Saskatchewan; and Cpl. James Vincent of Meath Park, Saskatchewan, showing great interest in a prize bull. 15/9/45. '

' Veterans Prepare For Civilian Life. Lt. R. Greene, Royal Canadian Artillery, Montreal, Quebec, is pictured with a registered calf. 15/9/45. '

' Veterans Prepare For Civilian Life. Gnr. Bert Walker, of Stony Mountain, Manitoba, looks over a Clydesdale horse that he may be wishing he could have when he takes up farming upon return to civilian life. He was one of many Canadian Pacific volunteers that were taken on a tour of the Canadian Experimental farm, Ottawa, where they showed great interest in the work that was carried on there, and the ...

Swiss veterans watch the modern army at exercises near Lucerne. Swiss veterans, in their old uniforms, watching the exercises near Lucerne. On left is Jakob Mattman, born in 1860, and next hin Konstantin Utinger.

' Veterans Prepare For Civilian Life. Pte. V.E. Vantassel, London, Ontario, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, who recently returned from overseas to take his part in the Pacific, but now looks forward to taking up farming on his return to civilian life is shown looking over calves on the Canadian Experimental farm in Ottawa, where a tour was conducted for service-men who were interested in taking ...