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Giles Vandeleur. Lieutenant-Colonel Giles Alexander Meysey Vandeleur, DSO (2 September 1911 – 9 March 1978) was a British Army officer during the Second World War . He was the only son of Alexander Moore Vandeleur of Cahercon, Kildysart, Co. Clare, Ireland and the Hon. Violet Meysey-Thompson. His father belonged to the prominent landowning ...
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15 de jun. de 1977 · A Bridge Too Far: Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Siem Vroom, Marlies van Alcmaer, Erik van 't Wout, Wolfgang Preiss. Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
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Joe's Bridge is the nickname given to Bridge No.9 on the Bocholt-Herentals Canal outside the town of Neerpelt, in the Belgian city of Lommel just south of the Belgian-Dutch border. The bridge was captured by British troops in September 1944, becoming the springboard for the ground offensive of Operation Market-Garden .
Box office. $50.7 million [4] A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film directed by Richard Attenborough. It depicts Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied operation in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II; the film's screenplay, by William Goldman, is based on a book of the same title by historian Cornelius Ryan. [5]
Lieutenant Colonel Joe Vandeleur he was the commanding officer of 3rd Battalion (Infantry), the Irish Guards, the Guards Armoured Division, XXX Corps, during Operation Market-Garden. He is a fictional portrayal of the real John Ormsby Evelyn "Joe" Vandeleur.[1]
Memorial Joe's Bridge Lommel. Operation Market Garden. Second World War (1939-1945) Vaartstraat, 3920 Lommel. Belgium Limburg Lommel. Brussels was liberated on 3 September 1944. The Guards Armored Division, part of XXX Corps, aimed its arrows at the north-east, towards the Dutch border. For this, two defended canals had to be crossed, first the ...
