On this website you will find links to websites I have construted over the years. Each of them focuses on an operation / battle of world war 2. For each website I have received contributions of veterans from around the world. For that I thank them. Their recollections and personal photos and documents are helping to keep the memories alive. If you have questions, remarks or additions? Please contact me at: operatiemanna@gmail.com.
Nevil Ashley - 1st British Airborne Division
Sgt. Ashley landed at Heelsum with the first wave of paras on the 17th of September. Read more...
Eldon Sellers C-47 Pilot, 309th Sq, 315th TCG, 9th AF
When we had returned to our homebase in England we realized that we had several holes in the wing from 20 mm tracer shells. Read more...
Richard (Dick) Wolch 82nd Airborne US Paratrooper
Peering from, the window of the plane, I tried counting the number of C-47's winging their way toward Holland. I gave up after reaching three hundred. Read more...
Meldon Hurlbert, Company C, 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion, 82nd ABN DIV
General Gavin desided that a crossing of the river in assaultboats was necessary. C Company was assigned to the job. Read more...
Mike McKinney 16th Reg. Co. L. 1st Div.
All of a sudden the boat was grinning on to the sand and the ramp went down. Everybody started running out immediately. Our lieutenant was up at front while I myself was in the back of the craft. Machine-gunfire came into the boat and the guys in the front were killed. Read more...
Charles Arthur Massey Jr.
Gunner with the 14 Field Regiment RCA
Killed in Action June 6, 1944 at Berniere Sur Mer Read more...
Robert and Richard Neff - 121st US Engineer Battalion
Twins land together on Omaha Beach on D-day. Read more...
Wess Ross - 146th and 299th ECB Assault teams
The US Army demolition teams on Omaha Beach Read more...
Bob Upcott, 101st Squadron RAF
had waited a little bit to long with the drop, because I partly overshot the drop zone. Half of the load slammed into the bleaches on the end of the racecourse.Read more...
Roelof Buitink - An American boy in occupied Holland
Roelof Buitink is an american boy of sixteen years old as the second world war breaks out in Holland. Read more...
Norman Coats Belly turret gunner, 390th Bomb Group
May 2nd 1945 - Today we went on a mercy mission to Holland dropping supplies to the civilians there. Read more...
Max Krell 96th BG Chowhound mission The Hague
Such signs of celebration we had never seen before nor since as the people hurried to retrieve their food from the sky. People waved at the planes, flags where everywhere and we had no doubt that the effort had been appreciated. Read more...
Douglas M Bailey - 463rd Airborne Field Artillery
My experience was not very long with the 101st as my Parachute Battalion had joined up with the 101st about a week or so before the start of the Battle of the Bulge.Read more...
Winfield Rosenberg 106th Infantry Division
An American soldier in an German concentration camp.
Winfield Rosenberg was on of the many men from the 106th Infantry Division that was captured during the early advance of the Germans.Read more...
Philip Maple, 106th US Infantry Division
The night of December 1944, four of us were called to the Co. CP. for a briefing on a Recon. patrol which was to take place the morning of December 16 Read more...
Jim Roan - 4th US Infantry Division
We were right in the line of the advancing German tank columns, in fact we heard the entire German army was just six miles away and advancing fast. Read more...
