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Updates:
February 2012:
Article added: Battle at Best - Scots take over!

January 2012:
Story updated: Pfc Joe E. Mann, 101st ABN Div
Event added: Glider Infantryman by Don Rich and Kevin Brooks

December 2011:
Event added: Return of the Welsh
Article updated: Flight routes for Market Garden
Article added: The Airborne pioneers
Event added: Visiting adopted graves for Christmas
Event added: Reuniting a soldier with his helmet

October 2011:
Article updated: Battle at Best, 3 troopers added
Event added: Remember September 2011

June 2011:
Article updated: Battle at Best, One of our finest officers - E.O. Parmley
Event added: Memorial Day 2011, Margraten (NL) war cemetery
Event added: Memorial Day 2011, Henri-Chapelle (BE) war cemetery

May 2011:
Adopted grave update: Richard V. Tiburzi
Article updated: Battle at Best, casualty list
Story added: Sgt William Bowser, E-502 PIR, 101st ABN Div

April 2011:
Story added: Sgt William Galbraith, HQ-3-506 PIR, 101st ABN Div
Article added: Battle at Best - Extra pages added
Event added: Yank re-enactment at the Paulushoef farm

March 2011:
Article updated: Battle at Best, casualty list, 2 troopers added
Event added: Dead man’s ridge walk
Event added: Tribute trip
Article updated: Battle at Best, casualty list, 14 troopers added
Event added: In the footsteps of the 82nd Airborne Division
Article updated: Battle at Best, casualty list, Grady R. Reese D-502 PIR

February 2011:
Article updated: Battle at Best, casualty list, 6 troopers added
Adopted graves: Info added
New section added: My adopted graves
Article updated: Battle at Best, casualty list
Article added: Night attack at Noirefontaine
Article added: 82nd Airborne Division Victory Parade

January 2011:
Story updated: Maj-Gen William Lee, 101st ABN Div
Article added: DSC recipients for the battle at Best
Article updated: Battle at Best, casualty list
Story added: Pfc William Nesbit, I-502 PIR, 101st ABN Div
Article added: Churchill inspects the 101st Airborne Division
Event added: Wings of freedom by Hans den Brok

December 2010:
Story added: Pfc Eugene Gilbreath, HQ-2-506 PIR, 101st ABN Div
Event added: Chrismas Remembrance 2010
Story added: Berta Roefs, Aid station at the Helena hoeve in Son
Article updated: Battle at Best, casualty list

November 2010:
Article updated: Battle at Best, casualty list
Story updated: Sgt Lester Taylor, I-502 PIR, 101st ABN Div

Oktober 2010:
Event added: College of the Ozarks Greatest Generation tour
Story added: Maj-Gen William Lee, 101st ABN Div
Article updated: Battle at Best, casualty list
Story added: Sgt Lester Taylor, I-502 PIR, 101st ABN Div
Article added: Willem Hikspoors
Article added: Joe’s bridge
Story added: Pvt Paul Carter, A-506 PIR, 101st ABN Div

September 2010:
Event added: Remember September 2010 at Eerde
Story added: Pfc John Primerano, HQ-501 PIR, 101st ABN Div
Article updated: Battle at Best, casualty list added
Story updated: T-5 Vincent Laino, C-326 AEB, 101st ABN Div
Article added: Operation Market Garden, the plan
Story updated: S-Sgt Roy Booher, 119th IR, 30 ID

August 2010:
Article added: Supply drop for the 101st Airborne Division at Son
Story added: Pvt John F. McAtee, A-551 PIB
Event added: Family visit, John F. McAtee, A-551 PIB
Story added: Pfc Joe E Mann, H-502 PIR, 101st ABN Div
Event added: Paying tribute to a hero, John F. McAtee, 551 PIB

July 2010:
Story added: Pvt Harold L Lytle, E-415 IR, 104th ID
Event added: Paying tribute to heroes
Medal of Honor recipient added
Story added: David Lardner, war correspondent for the New Yorker
Story added: T-5 Vincent Laino, 326 AEB, 101st Abn Div
Then and Now: Country and locations added: France
Event added: Rochelinval, plaque dedication for Sgt. Robert H. Hill, 551 PIB
Links added: Battle for Grandmenil and Battlebus
Article added: Battle at Best by the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment
Then and Now: Location added, Eindhoven

June 2010:
Then and Now: Location added, Son
Story added: Recollections of WWII: A. Houben-de Jongh
Story added: Col Robert M Murphy, 505th PIR, 82 Abn Div
Article added: Flight routes for Market Garden
Artifact added: Eisenhouwer’s D-day message
Story added: Cpl Gordon C Powell, 82nd RB, 2 AD
Story added: S-Sgt Roy Booher, 119th IR, 30 Div
Then and Now: Location added

May 2010:
Event added: Memorial day May 30, 2010: Margraten
Event added: Memorial day May 29, 2010: Henri-Chapelle
Medal of Honor recipients added
Royal family card
Artifacts section added
Event added: Best, Remembrance day for the Dutch
Article added: Old Hickory and Hell on Wheels coming to town!
Then and Now: location added
Article added: Cole’s charge
Article added: Transportation service for the liberators
Then and Now: locations added
New section added: Then and Now
Article added: Einhoven, Scouts lead the way
Story added: Recollections of WWII: A. Thomassen
Story updated: Recollections of WWII: Freda Leenders
Story added: Recollections of WWII: Gerrit den Braber
Story added: Recollections of WWII: Adrianus van de Wal
Article updated: Paratroopers enter Eindhoven
Article added: Eindhoven, German prisoners of war
Medal of Honor recipients added
Article added: Eindhoven, 3-506 PIR on the Boschdijk
Event added: Grebbeberg 2009
Article added: Son, Sanatorium Holy heart of Jesus, 326 AMC Hospital
Story added: Recollections of WWII: Noud Stultiens

April 2010:
Story added: Recollections of WWII: Freda Leenders
New section added: Medal of Honor
New section added: Victoria Cross
Event added: Memorial Day 2009
Guestbook added to website
Event added: Mook, exhibition Remember September 1944
Article added: Veghel, the brass says thank you
Event added: Son, exhibition Remember September 1944
Event added: Bastogne, liberated 65 years
Event added: Bethel University BoB trip
Article added: Airfield at Landingzone-W
Article added: Wolfswinkel war cemetery
Article added: Paratroopers enter Eindhoven
Website Battle at Best is online