The Battle of the Nijmegen salient or the Defence of the Nijmegen bridgehead was a series of engagements that took place in the Netherlands during World War II between 30 September and 8 October 1944. The battle occurred in the aftermath of Operation Market Garden, a failed attempt by the Allies to cut off German forces in the Netherlands and end the war quickly.
DUKWs transport supplies across the River Waal at Nijmegen, below the railway bridge whose central span was broken by German frogmen using floating mines, 28 September 1944
Field Marshal Walter Model (left) conversing with Wilhelm Bittrich in the Arnhem sector
A soldier crouches near a knocked-out German PzKpfw III near Nijmegen days after Operation Market Garden had ended
John Frost Bridge
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John Frost Bridge is the road bridge over the Lower Rhine at Arnhem, in the Netherlands.
The bridge was inaugurated after the end of World War II, and is named after Major-General John Dutton Frost (1912–1993), who commanded the British forces that reached and temporarily defended the pre-existing Rijnbrug at the same location during the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. This was the bridge referenced in the 1977 Anglo-American film A Bridge Too Far, although the IJssel bridge in Deventer was used for the actual shooting of the film.
Aerial view of the old bridge during the fighting at Arnhem, September 1944
Aerial view from the church tower
The Fietspad or Bicycle Path on the bridge.