This monument commemorates the IXth Troop
Carrier Command
during Operation Market Garden, 17 - 23 september 1944.
It can be found near a viaduct over the A50,
At Sonniuswijk / Ockhuizenweg in Son
The IX Troop Carrier Command was a United States Army Air Forces unit.
It was a component command of the Ninth Air Force,
based in the United Kingdom.
It's role was parachute and (WACO) glider assault.
It was active from 16 October 1943 to 31 March 1946
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert George Cole
(March 19, 1915 – September 18, 1944)
was an American soldier
who received, posthumos, the Medal of Honor
The Purple Heart and
the French Croix de Guerre with Palm
for his actions in WW2.
following the D-Day Normandy invasion.
He was shot in Best by a Germasn sniper while
trying to assist a pilot
and died immediately.
Schietbaanlaan, Best
Joe Eugene Mann
(Reardan, Washington, VS, 8 juli 1922 - Best, 19 september 1944)
was an american soldier of WW2.
He served as Private First Class (Pfc.)
in Company H, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
of the american army during Operation Market-Garden
He was shot in both arms and his group got enclosed between germans
which was not noticed by their own army nor the Germans.
They held their position until discovered.
The Germans attacked, killing several people.
Joe Mann couldn't throw back the granade that landed near him.
He threw himself on it, and saved the soldiers around him.
He was honored with the Medal of Honor.
He's burried in 1049 at Greenwood Memorial Terrace
in Spokane in the state of Washington.
He is also honored with another monument.
Boslaan-Zuid, achter de Decathlon.
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