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Airshow Wings of Freedom - Ede NL - 2019
In 2019 it is 75 years since Operation Overlord, the code name of the Western allies, started on 6 June 1944 to liberate Western Europe. It would ultimately be quite a fight and Operation Market Garden would go into the history books as the grandest airborne ever. To support the advance well, temporary airports were built at various locations, that proved to be very effective and made a major contribution to the liberation. This field in Ede, a central city in the Netherlands, was one of them. Through various activities, the awareness of freedom is brought to the attention and shown to the Dutch public through 75 years of remembering, commemorating and celebrating together. On this day there is again a real airport with a runway and a control tower. More than 30,000 visitors attended this day.
The aviation event and the WWII airport are incomplete without the activities on the ground. Because we want to match the 'Forty Years' image as well as possible, a historically correct camp is being built. Around 250 re-enactors and historically dressed people depict the daily life of the Second World War. At the camp you can experience what life at an Allied airport looked like. You will encounter pilots, bomber crews and ground personnel from both the Royal Air Force, the US Army Air Force but also the counterpart, the German Luftwaffe. In addition, the various Allied army units are well represented, such as the Airborne troops, both American and British and Canadian. The entertaining staff such as fitters, chefs, office staff and nursing staff are also abundantly present. All of these people live and live throughout the event at the camp and therefore take along a suitable collection of vehicles, weapons and utensils alongside tents.
Static
•DH82a Tiger Moth
•Piper L-4H Cub
•Boeing Stearman AAC 306
•Boeing Stearman Old Crow Flying Circus
•Stampe & Vertongen
•AT-6A Texan
•Stinston
•Gippsland Airvan GA-8 stichting
•Boeing AH-64 Apache
•Eurocopter EC135
•Lockheed Martin F16
•Fairchild 24R Argus
Flight programm
•Nieuport 28C1
•Vultee
•Beechcraft Staggerwing
•De Haviland Chipmunk
•Boeing N2-S3 Stearman
•DH82a Tiger Moth Formation
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Airshow Wings of Freedom - Ede NL - 2019
In 2019 it is 75 years since Operation Overlord, the code name of the Western allies, started on 6 June 1944 to liberate Western Europe. It would ultimately be quite a fight and Operation Market Garden would go into the history books as the grandest airborne ever. To support the advance well, temporary airports were built at various locations, that proved to be very effective and made a major contribution to the liberation. This field in Ede, a central city in the Netherlands, was one of them. Through various activities, the awareness of freedom is brought to the attention and shown to the Dutch public through 75 years of remembering, commemorating and celebrating together. On this day there is again a real airport with a runway and a control tower. More than 30,000 visitors attended this day.
The aviation event and the WWII airport are incomplete without the activities on the ground. Because we want to match the 'Forty Years' image as well as possible, a historically correct camp is being built. Around 250 re-enactors and historically dressed people depict the daily life of the Second World War. At the camp you can experience what life at an Allied airport looked like. You will encounter pilots, bomber crews and ground personnel from both the Royal Air Force, the US Army Air Force but also the counterpart, the German Luftwaffe. In addition, the various Allied army units are well represented, such as the Airborne troops, both American and British and Canadian. The entertaining staff such as fitters, chefs, office staff and nursing staff are also abundantly present. All of these people live and live throughout the event at the camp and therefore take along a suitable collection of vehicles, weapons and utensils alongside tents.
Static
•DH82a Tiger Moth
•Piper L-4H Cub
•Boeing Stearman AAC 306
•Boeing Stearman Old Crow Flying Circus
•Stampe & Vertongen
•AT-6A Texan
•Stinston
•Gippsland Airvan GA-8 stichting
•Boeing AH-64 Apache
•Eurocopter EC135
•Lockheed Martin F16
•Fairchild 24R Argus
Flight programm
•Nieuport 28C1
•Vultee
•Beechcraft Staggerwing
•De Haviland Chipmunk
•Boeing N2-S3 Stearman
•DH82a Tiger Moth Formation