Study Title: PAN turns
over 5 POW's to Sky Soldiers
Subject: On September
18th Dutch resistance fighters
of the Partizanen Actie
Nederland (Partisans Action
Netherlands) took five German
Paratoopers (Fallschirmjaeger)
prisoner and turned them over to
troops of the 506th Regiment on
Wal.
Date: September 18th, 1944
Location: Eindhoven,
Holland
Introduction:
On September 18th 1944, a group
of Dutch resistance fighters
realizes that this is the day
their city is being liberated.
They don their characteristic
blue coveralls, black Dutch army
helmets and white brassards.
Their actions are recorded by
amateur photographers at every
street corner. From the start of
their patrol on Hagenkampweg
Noord to Hoog Straat when they
capture five German Luftwaffe
Fallschirmjaeger to Wal where
they turn their prisoners over
to American paratroopers. This
is a pictorial story of one of
the actions of the Partisan
Action Netherlands (PAN)
For now, this is just a preview as the complete
Battle Study # 4 is being drawn up at this time.
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pictures to enlarge)
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