Joris Nieuwint

Joris Nieuwint is a battlefield guide for the Operation Market Garden area. His primary focus is on the Allied operations from September 17th, 1944 onwards. Having lived in the Market Garden area for 25 years, he has been studying the events for nearly as long. He has a deep understanding of the history and a passion for sharing the stories of the men who are no longer with us.

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Articles by Joris Nieuwint:

The Canadians in Normandy – 19 Pictures You May Not Have Seen Before

René Corby, a Canadian soldier of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division at Capriquet on July 8th 1944 Canadian Provost Corps guarding prisoners that fought in…

Kursk – The German Pictures of the Biggest Tank Battle in History

The Battle of Kursk was a World War II engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union…

Brecourt Manor – The Famous Band of Brothers battle – From the Air!

The famous attack on the German Artillery Guns at the Brécourt Manor by Easy Company was immortalized in the series Band of Brothers. Now, see the whole location…

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Adolf Hitler (Watch)

In 1907 a young man walked into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Under his arm, he carried a portfolio of some of…

Pegasus Bridge Museum – A Visit in Pictures

Last week I was in Normandy and finally had the chance to visit Pegasus Bridge and the museum. I’ve always camped far away in the…

Bomber Camp 2015 – The Pictures

Remember the amazing Bomber Camp weekend by the Stockton Field Aviation Museum? Being trained on every position as B-17 Flying Fortress crewmen, dropping bombs from a…

WATCH: WWII Fighters Startup and Taxi (P-47, P-38, P-51s)

  Several WWII fighter aircraft fire up their engines and taxi out before performing at the 2014 Thunder Over Michigan airshow at Willow Run airport…

WATCH: Killer Tanks The Cromwell

War memories are sometimes teeming with amazing anecdotes, and in this video, Lindybeige recounts two of them and also talks a little about the British WW2…

The New Reich Chancellery, a look in Hitlers center of Power

In this photo series, we are taking a look at the New Reich Chancellery from it’s construction to its after-life. All pictures, except the “Afterlife”,…

WATCH: 15 Times World War 3 Nearly Started

In the years since WWII, the possibility of a World War 3 has not been a stretch of the imagination with continuous conflicts throughout the…

WATCH: SR-71 – The World’s Fastest Plane

Imagine a plane that could travel at three times the speed of sound. That’s 1,030 meters every second or 1.03 kilometers (.65 miles)! The United…

For Sale: 1944 North American P-51D Mustang

For sale, by court order this amazing P-51D Mustang! It feels like a barn find but it probably isn’t, you can’t fly it straight away…