Stock Photo - This Dakota, carrying men of 156th Parachute Battalion Machine Gun Platoon, was shot down by German ack ack on 18 September 1944, the second day of Operation Market Garden. The handsome marble Memorial was erected in 2000 by the Adriaanvan Westreemen Stichting and unveiled on 3 May in the presence of the brothers of Privates Thomas Stevens and Henry Philpotts, both named on the bronze plaque which also carries an outline of a Dakota. One soldier survived the crash but died the following day. The American crew were all identified but the 18 British paratroopers on board could not be identified individually. After the war they were moved from temporary graves to the British Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery at Jonkerbos with the inscription 'Buried near this spot'.