Antoon Meijers

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They Were All Over The Sky: The Market Garden Bombing Part of Arnhem / Market Garden Week on WW2TV A very neglected aspect of Operation Market Garden is the American bombing raids just before and during this operation. Hundreds of...

They Were All Over The Sky: The Market Garden Bombing Part of Arnhem / Market Garden Week on WW2TV A very neglected aspect of Operation Market Garden is the American bombing raids just before and during this operation. Hundreds of American B-17 'Flying Fortress' bombers from a total of 22 Bomb Groups of the 8th Air Force were sent to target German air defenses and other military targets spread over 119 locations in the Netherlands. These bombings were not always very accurate and claimed many victims among the Dutch civilian population, including many children. The versatile P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bombers equipped with bombs and rockets were also used during this combat period to support the Allied airborne troops and to disrupt the German forces in the Netherlands. Antoon Meijers is a former captain at the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service (EOD) in the Netherlands. His book "They were all over the Sky" is a chronicle of the American bombing raids during Operation Market Garden - September 1944.

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