Dakotas at Arnhem

During WWII, my father was in the army. During the Arnhem campaign of 1944, his unit was assigned to act as crew in a number of supply aircraft - Dakotas - to drop supplies to the Allied troops. One day over Nijmegen in the Netherlands, their plane was shot down and they were obliged to save themselves by using parachutes; thankfully, they didn't lose anyone when they did this. On landing, they were met by local people who hid them in a barn for several days. Eventually, the locals said it was safe for them to make their way towards the Allied lines, which were then quite close, so the group o... Mehr ...