505th PIR and 1st Canadian Army Memorial
This double Memorial was erected by C.Hectors, A. van Grinsven and Father Thuring in Klein Amerika on 16 September 1990. The left hand tablet records that, With Europe in peril, Paras landed here in their thousands, General James Gavin and the All American Division 17 and 18 Sep 1944 Operation Market Garden. Pilgrim, are you, like the liberators, ready to lay down your life when your fellows need you'. This area was DZ N for the Americans and 2, 291 men of the 505th PIR landed with the HQ of 82nd Airborne Division. General Gavin and his staff landed at about 1315 hours.The right hand tablet says, Here in the winter of 1944/45 tens of thousands of (General) Crerar's First Canadian Army held the front line between the Maas and the Waal. Pilgrim, cherish all that you hold dear
