The Overloon Museum and Hell's Highway

[carojon]

This year JJ's Wargames temporarily located to Liempde in the Netherlands for a summer holiday which included a visit to the great WWII collection at Overloon and a very personal tour of the road from Joe's Bridge to Eindhoven.






If you would like to read about these two visits then just follow either or both links to JJ's

http://jjwargames.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/overloon-war-museum-holland-2017.html

https://jjwargames.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/hells-highway-holland-2017.html

Jonathan

[Sunjester]

Overloon is such a great venue to visit. Did they still have the big red button (of course I pressed it when we went there...big kid).

[carojon]

Hi Sunjester, can't say I saw that, I was too busy taking in the collection which was fantastic.
As you say a great venue to visit.
Cheers
JJ

[Sunjester]

When I visited there was a big red button by the beach landing display. If you pressed it a fantastic soundtrack went off, it was like being in the middle of the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. When I pressed it it made a lot of people jump!

[carojon]

Ha, that sounds cool, I might have missed that. The display was very impressive, I think that the sound of bullets whipping past ones ear and the loud crump of high explosives would have made it complete.

[fred]

Great blog covering the then and now of Hell's Highway. Really good that you could retrace your Dad's steps (well tracks!)

[Johan]

The red button is still there. I visit Overloon every year in may when Militracks is going on there. Loads of extra German vehicles who actually are drvng around.