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Nijmegen, Valkhof.

The city of Nijmegen is built along the river "Waal" and has an old military history that is going back to the Roman legions.

One of the remains from WW2 is located at the east side of the big bridge over the river at the Valkhof.
The Germans made of this high point that looks over the bridge a strongpoint with 3 bunkers on it.
After the war two of them were demolished. The remaining one is still looking towards the bridge.
We got some information that in the old brick walls along the road trough the Valkhof,also some defencewas built. We got some pictures of it.

During the photo shoot there where old American army trucks and cars at the Valkhof present because of the remembering ceremonies of Operation Market Garden September 1944-2009.

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1x MG post.
1x German remains.

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Nijmegen, Belvedere.

At the opposite site of the Valkhof there is a other high point that is looking over the Waal bridge, with a old tower on it called "Belvedere".
At the end of the slope in the shadow of the restaurant Belvedere you see a German Pak38 anti tank gun standing on a concrete platform, pointing in the direction to the bridge.

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1x Emplacement with a Pak38 gun.

Holland, Gelderland, Nijmegen. (3)

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Nijmegen, Lent.

The village of  Lent, that's now a days is a part of Nijmegen,lies at the west side, on the other end of the Waal bridge.

Because of the bridge for car traffic and a nearby railroad bridge, the Dutch army built around 1935 several bunkers to protect those bridges and to stop the enemy at the river crossing.
One bunker is lying behind the dike and is therefor two stories high to look and to shoot over the dike. A other one is situated in straight line looking over the bridge. Now a day the bunker lies only two meters from the highway from Nijmegen tot Arnhem.
At the railroad track near the bridge over the river there is a special type of a Dutch model MG post. It is looking straight over the bridge over the railtrack. Today there is a pedestrian and bicycle road made at the other side along the bunker.

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2x Brugkazemat. (Dutch)
1x MG post. (Dutch)