WWII battlefield guide based in The Netherlands. I lead tours across Europe, sharing the stories of the men who fought, where they fought.
The Netherlands
Joined January 2010
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A visit to the Eagles Nest overlooking Berchtesgaden, our last stop and literally a highlight of the tour. Tomorrow we are all heading home and it it was an absolute pleasure to guide this Engeland to the Eagles nest tour for @WWIImuseum with @BattlefieldDisc
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It was great seeing my mate Joris @battlefieldexpl talk last Monday about the fighting in 1944 around his hometown of Veghel. Well done mate!
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The Easy in Eindhoven walking tour we do on @WWIImuseum Easy Company Tour never fails to be a great success. But with double busses we always combine the groups and do a joint tour, as you can see in the pics below where Joris @battlefieldexpl Joris and @edwinpopken can be seen taking turns in sharing stories.
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This morning, guests of the @WWIImuseum could join an optional walking tour of “Easy Company in Eindhoven”, hosted by not one but both guides Edwin & Joris (@battlefieldexpl). Many guests joined the tour, seeing photos and hearing anecdotes on the locations where it all happened.
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Heeswijk Castle, where 1/501 PIR mistakenly landed during Op Market. One man landing in the moat and nearly drowning, was father Sampson aka the Parachuting Padre. He also landed in water on D-Day. Sampson was captured at Bastogne in Dec 1944, survived the war, served in Korea and eventually became Chief of Chaplains US Army. Visited last Monday on a Market Garden Highlights Tour with US clients we did on behalf of @battlefieldexpl
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Honoured and humbled as I received news that I finally am an adoptant of a grave at the Netherlands America Cemetery. Please meet Clarence Fahnert, 20 y/o from San Antonio, TX. A waist gunner with 385th Bomb Group, he was killed 3-Mar-1944 near Boxtel, NL on his first mission.
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Two coaches on this @wwiimuseum #easycompany tour. Together with @battlefieldexpl we are ready to go and explore Op Market Garden and Easy’s role in it today. #ww2travel #battlefieldtour #bandofbrothers
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Looking forward to watching the next series. Covers my grandfather's SAS service during the Sicily & Italy campaigns Wondering if the "every man for himself" quote is during Operation Devon Termoli If so he heard told me he heard that order as German Fallschirmjager closed in – at Maidstone, South East
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Homeward bound after an Amazing Recce with the @GuildofBG in the Netherlands studying Op. Market Garden with photos of Bert at Groesbeek,
508 PIR Memorial in Beek, Joris @battlefieldexpl, Jim and Wybo at the "Culvert" and the Memorial near the Church at Oosterbeek.
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A memorable day around "Hells Highway" in the Netherlands on a Op. Market Garden Recce with the @GuildofBG led by Joris @battlefieldexpl and wonderful Battlefield Guides.
Highlights included Joe's Bridge, Son Bridge, Joe Mann's Memorial a Eerde Windmill and Veghel.
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Grave Bridge, seized by men from the 82nd Airborne Division led by Lt. John Thompson. Fantastic Market Garden tour today with @battlefieldexpl #respect #hallowedground
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On tour again with @WWIImuseum on their Easy Company Tour. Two coaches out, guided by Joris @battlefieldexpl and @edwinpopken. This morning the groups focused on Op Market Garden and the role of Easy Company, 506 Parachute Infantry in it.
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After an interesting bus tour this morning, focusing on MOH recipients Joe Mann and Robert Cole, and a great walking tour on Easy Company in Eindhoven, we are now ready to leave for the NL American Cemetery on our @WWIImuseum Easy Company Tour.
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Final preps for tomorrow’s tour. We’ll be with 3 guides on a Battlefield Study with Royal NL Army’s medic training. 140 trainees will learn stories about medical care & logistics during Battle at Arnhem & discuss what it means for their own jobs.
@edwinpopken @battlefieldexpl
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An excellent and very successful day guiding for @WWIImuseum at Arnhem for their 80th D-Day Anniversary Cruise. Three coaches in the area with a super team of guides: @jojohook2003, @battlefieldexpl and @edwinpopken
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Slumming it tonight with @edwinpopken and @battlefieldexpl we are cruising from Amsterdam to the UK tomorrow we dock. Today has been a great day guiding in Arnhem
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Remember that individual act of heroism in The Bridge Too Far movie? They’d never dropped berets and caps badges at Arnhem right?
Wrong according to this war diary.
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A highly informative and successful morning on the @WWIImuseum Easy Company Tour. Guests learned about Easy’s involvement in Op Market. And a small And very pleasant surprise at last stop before lunch, bumping into @battlefieldexpl with his WW2 Dodge Weapons Carrier.
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Lecture season started again. Today Joris and Edwin both do a talk on The Liberation of the Netherlands on two @VikingCruises ships docked in Nijmegen. – at Nijmegen, Nederland
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Let’s start digging! The German artillery battery near Katwijk (Heeres-Küsten Batterie Katwijk-Neu) consisted of three formidable 688 casemates for 17 cm guns. It was built in 1944. Sadly the bunkers started to subside and in 1964 they were toppled into large pits and covered. – at Leidschendam-Voorburg, Nederland
