US 501st Geronimo Monument, Eerde, Holland
During Operation Market Garden in September 1944, the airborne forces were charged with capturing a series of bridges over waterways that impeded the ground troops advance. In the struggle to the west of Veghel on the Zuid-Willemsvaart Canal, the 501st were involved in hand-to-hand fighting as they struggled to hold open The Corridor, the name given to the road over all the bridges once they had been captured. There are a number of memorials here including this main one which was erected in 1981. It has the colourful badge of the Regiment showing the head of the Apache Geronimo (their battle cry). To the right is a pillar with the names of eleven Americans erected, To my friends, may they rest in peace, by William and Thelma McMahon in 1989. The adjoining mill has a number of plaques, including a list of the names of the dead of the 501st
