THE CROSSING

THE CROSSING

Nijmegen

Oosterhoutsedijk 90

On 18 September 1984 a monument has been established at the Oosterhoutsedijk in Lent, commemorating the dangerous crossing by the 82nd Airborne Division and soldiers killed here. Likewisem the third city bridge in Nijmegen, which in 2013 was completed at about the same location as the "Waal crossing", received the name 'The Crossing'. As a tribute to the people that lost their lives during the war, the bridge was equipped with 48 pairs of lampposts, that after switching off the city lights light up one by one, from south (Nijmegen) to north (Lent), at the pace of a slow march.
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