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Commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem

Week number 64-39

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:video
Length:02:04
Publication date:17 September 1964
User:Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
Source:WEEKNUMMER643-HRE0001B1C9
Tags:4 en 5 mei,  oorlogsmonument,  Arnhem 

Comemoration of the 20 year anniversary of the battle of Arnhem. Veterans walk in a silent parade to the Airborne monument in Arnhem. Major General Robert Elliot Urquhart and General Stanislaw Sosabowski lay wreaths at the monuemtn in the presence of mayor Ch.G. Matser. A girl and three boys that were born on September 17th 1944, lay the first stone for a new city hall. With archive material of teh landings and battles during the Battle of Arnhem and the destroyed city after the war.