Merry Christmas

We want to wish everyone out there a 

Merry Christmas 

and a 

Happy New Year

Oosterbeek / Arnhem 2013

At last one is home. It has been lovely days in Oosterbeek / Arnhem Holland. Not as it is at 

home as I am writing this, RAINING. It was nice to meet all old friends one have come in 

touch in Holland and some new from Czech Republic and some new two.

This year we went whit our father and a new member of our group to visit the different 

location in and outside the perimeter of the Oosterbeek pocket. We started in the 

Oosterbeek pocket and drove first to Heelsum to look at the Memorial that is erected 

of resupply containers. We drove to the Wolfheze Drop / landing zones as we visited the 

sites we had a battlefield tour book to our help that was wery good whit some nice 

storys about the different locations that we visited further on our tour.

The 21st Independent Parachute Company was mentiened a couple of times in the book. 

We were at the John Frost bridge memorial service and the Polish at Driel it was very 

moving. It has been very educational trip to see all the hot spots and there are more 

to see as we did not se all.

MORE PHOTOS of MD

We recived some photos from a kind soul that was visitor of 

Möllerödsdagarna. We would to thank Mr Villy Lorich for these 

photos. He have some more pictures here spangbo.blogspot.se .

Copyrigth to Villy Lorich

Copyrigth to Villy Lorich

Copyrigth to Villy Lorich

Copyrigth to Villy Lorich

Copyrigth to Villy Lorich

MÖLLERÖDSDAGARNA 2013

These pictures that you see here are right before the opening of the event. The event 

was nice as the previous years and as usual came across old friends from previous 

years and some Dutch tourist that know about the Airborne Battle Wheels event in

Holland. 

It was very pleasent that our display got many visitors and that they where curious 

about the things we displayed. We will post more pictures of the whole event as I did 

not had time to take more pictures and we hade a friend who was there and took 

pictures of the whole event, so we need to borrow his memory card for more pictures.

GRUBBED UP IN MÖLLERÖD

We have been in Mölleröd and cleared scrub for the ten year anniversary

of the Military Show with MKHF members

We were a nice bunch who met at 09.00 in the morning and started to clean 

out the trenches and clearing undergrowth of the event area.

Liberation Festival Plzen

Now I sit here in front of the computer and try to sum up our little expedition to Plzen. 

there were different camps in plzen, American, British, German and contemporary American. 

Plzen was liberated by the Americans beginning of May, because of this they keep this

 festival every year. Every year there are coming American veterans to join the celebration

 and every year, there are some that fall off. It is a very good and serious re-enactment event. 

There are several monuments for the American units that participated in the liberation of Plzen and museums. 

Me and my brother were participants as Czech soldiers in the British army. A few days after the

 Americans liberated Plzen there came a small Czech unit. The Czech unit would be symbolic in that it

 would be in the liberation of the czech republic but essentially Prague. There were several activities 

related to the festivities, fashion show 40s, boxing match and much other tings. The festival 

was well planned. We must say that we were well received as one of the Czech re-eenactors 

told us that he'd like to have seen more international clubs come. We would like to thank our hosts 

for letting us be with you, Many Thanks. We can warmly recommend to travel to Plzen.

 

Liberation Festival in Pilsen

On May 3, we will travel to liberation festival in Pilsen.

liberation of Pilsen

Free Czech Forces

Want to show a nice Item. Does not have anything to do whit the 

British Airborne. It is a gift from Czech Officers to a Capt N.G Arnold from 

the Czechoslovak training department/depot. The inscription on the 

Cigar/cigarette case is To Capt N.G. Arnold From The Officers of the 

Czechoslovak TNG. DEP.-E. MEF. April 1943. If there is any out there that 

could help me with the abbreviation on the case, I would appreciat it very much.