Jack,
We are now living about 72 years after the ending of WW2 and still new facts emerge.
Main events have drawn most attention,smaller events have submerged in the mist of time.
But the locals remember,everywhere and always.
On about each and every major railwaystation in Holland you will find a bronze plaque with names of railwaymen fallen in WW2,most of them because of allied strafing,a fact often forgotten.
Enginedrivers were forced to work for occupying forces and were killed because of allied action.
The father of my mother was an enginedriver,i never knew him.
During the German invasion of Holland in May 1940 over 2,000 Dutch soldiers were killed in action,many refused to surrender on the forth day,when Rotterdam was bomded to force surrender.
British press usually refers to this as "Defeat in the low countries".
Many Ju-52 planes were shot down which may have caused Hitler to think twice about invading England with paratrooper forces.
The USAAF bomded Nijmegen by mistake,intention was to bomb Kleve just over the border.
The USAAF also bomded The Hague by mistake,in an attempt to destroy V-2 sites.
This we call the price of freedom i believe.
Earlier this week it was 75 years ago that German forces were defeated at Stalingrad,the turningpoint in WW2,something we should ever be grateful for,and i am not a communist.
