{"id":661,"date":"2016-05-04T14:52:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?page_id=661"},"modified":"2018-08-29T20:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T00:29:51","slug":"ww-ii-arnhem-museum-and-tour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/2016-amsterdam-tulip-cruise\/ww-ii-arnhem-museum-and-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"WW II Arnhem Airborne Museum and Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle of Arnhem was part of the largest <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-737 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arnhem-Airborn-Museum-2-of-3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Arnhem Airborn Museum (2 of 3)\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arnhem-Airborn-Museum-2-of-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arnhem-Airborn-Museum-2-of-3-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>paratrooper invasion\u00a0of World War II.\u00a0The allied forces were defeated and had to withdraw with significant losses. This cemetery and small memorial museum was dedicated to the memory of those who fought and died in this battle. \u00a0Hard to photograph, hard to absorb the feelings of the men and women who were lost in the liberation of Holland and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-738\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arnhem-Airborn-Museum-3-of-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-738 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arnhem-Airborn-Museum-3-of-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Arnhem Airborn Museum (3 of 3)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arnhem-Airborn-Museum-3-of-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arnhem-Airborn-Museum-3-of-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M4 Sherman Tank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The story is, some kids found this M4 Sherman (thanks to SgtAlf for the correction) tank fueled up and ready to go after the Allied troops abandoned it when the war was over. Apparently, according to the story, the tank had some remaining fuel and they started it up. \u00a0If you believe the story, they drove it around and it ran out of fuel at the sight of the future Arnhem Airborne Museum. I hope they are well, happy, and laughing when they read the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battle of Arnhem was part of the largest paratrooper invasion\u00a0of World War II.\u00a0The allied forces were defeated and had to withdraw with significant losses. This cemetery and small memorial museum was dedicated to the memory of those who fought and died in this battle. \u00a0Hard to photograph, hard to absorb the feelings of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/2016-amsterdam-tulip-cruise\/ww-ii-arnhem-museum-and-tour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WW II Arnhem Airborne Museum and Tour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"parent":652,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-661","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions\/2355"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}