2024 Lichtjesroute in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
The 2024 Lichtjesroute in Eindhoven, Netherlands is an Illuminated Bicycle route, it is 80 years old in 2024. Here can be seen some of the Illuminated signs showing the Liberation of the Netherlands. The signs showing the route across from Portsmouth to Normandy in France to Paris, Arras, then coming across to Brusse, Neerpelt in Belgium and Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
The Illustrations show the plan of attack to defeat the Nazis and Liberate Europe.
The war leaders both British and Commonwealth and from United States of America with Allied Leaders of the War Effort in the European theatre of war with the General Bernard Montgomery and General Dwight D Eisenhower. General Montgomery being British and General Eisenhower being American.
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (born November 17, 1887, London, England—died March 24, 1976, near Alton, Hampshire).
Montgomery was the son of an Ulster clergyman, educated at St. Paul’s School.
London, and the Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst). He served with distinction in World War I (twice wounded), he was recognised as a first-rate trainer of troops, with a forcible insistence on physical fitness, youth, and efficiency in leadership. Early in World War II he lead a division in France and after the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, he commanded the southeastern section of England in anticipation of a German invasion. In August 1942 Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed him commander of the British Eighth Army in North Africa, which had recently been defeated and pushed back to Egypt by German General Erwin Rommel.
Under Eisenhower, Montgomery reviewed the plan for Operation Overlord (the Normandy Invasion was code-named) and recommended expanding the size of the invading force and landing area. Eisenhower approved the expansion plan (code-named Neptune), and Montgomery commanded all ground forces in the initial stages of the invasion, launched on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Beginning August 1, his Twenty-first Army Group consisted of Miles Dempsey’s British Second Army and Henry Crerar’s First Canadian Army. Promoted to the rank of field marshal, Montgomery led the group to victory across northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands (Operation Market Garden), and northern Germany, finally receiving the surrender of the German northern armies on May 4, 1945, on Lüneburg Heath.
David Dwight Eisenhower (born October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. During World War II he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe achieving a five-star rank as General of the Army.
After the war ended in Europe, he served as military governor of the American-occupied zone of Germany (1945), Army Chief of Staff (1945–1948), president of Columbia University (1948–1953), and as the first supreme commander of NATO (1951–1952).
In 1952, Eisenhower entered the presidential race as a Republican to block the isolationist foreign policies of Senator Robert A. Taft, who opposed NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation).
The Lichtfietsroute is an annual Bicycle waymarked Route in Noord Brabant in the Netherlands.
My video was made on Tuesday 24th of September 2024.
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