1944 September - 101st Airborne paratrooper liberator in the fields with three civilians. Area St Oedenrode, Nijnsel, Son, the Netherlands, World War II.

1916 - Family van de Kamp (later Ahrend, Odah office equipment factories) with a regiment soldiers.

1932 Women at the cemetery. St Oda festivities

1932 - Market square on a summer morning.

1931 Heuvel, the road to the market square. Trees were removed due to increasing traffic.

1932 - road to the market square. All trees are gone here. A sidewalk is paved.

1910 - market square, children posing.

1931 - market square, a farmer family going to church.

1930 - Dutch windmill built in 1290. Destroyed by artillery shells during liberation in september 1944.

1956 - Kofferen, near the gate of the Odah factory

1930 app. - people and cleric around a stove.

1910's Market square

1919 - police inspectors arriving at murder scene. The manager of a local factory was brutally killed during a robbery. Original picture courtesy Bart Beex.

1910's, factory manager van Kruysdijk, brutally killed in a robbery in 1919

1910's, tram station in Nijnsel, a small village near St Oedenrode. The road leads to Son and Eindhoven. This place is completely gone. Nowadays there runs a highway, the A50. In world war 2 this road was very important as it was the first part of 'the corridor', the route from Eindhoven to Nijmegen. For the Band of Brothers fans: the 101st airborne paratroopers landed in the fields on the right of this road, just a few kilometers ahead. At school we used to visit historic places guided by veterans. Director Steven Spielberg and his team visited our 'neighborhood' prior to the production of BoB.

1926 - parade

1936 - Hambrug, bridge over river Dommel. This bridge was destroyed by German forces in 1944 during the liberation of St Oedenrode.

1937 - Factory owner v.d.Kamp and others, opening of the Odah office building.

1937 - opening of the outdoor swimming pool Kienehoef

1936 - Kofferen, road to Best.

1940 June - annual wooden shoe fair, market square.

1944 - Reconstruction of the Hambrug bridge which was destroyed during liberation.

1944 - Allied forces posing with residents.

1944 - castle Henkenshage. For a brief time this was the field HQ during Operation Market Garden. The landing spot near Son is just a few miles from here.

1944 - common wealth troops with civilians

1944

1944 - crashed para glider with remains of a jeep in it

1952 - an old couple, married in 1882.

1954 - Lindendijk.

1955 - road to the market square, 'Heuvel' (hill)

1937 - outdoor swimming pool Kienehoef

1931 - Dutch wooden shoe maker

1936 app. Medieval watermill. This ancient mill just collapsed in the late 1930's and was not rebuilt. De Dommel river was rerouted and a pond remains.

1963 the cold winter of 62/63

1955 Road to Schijndel

1963 Kofferen - Heuvel

1965 - Market square. These small trees are huge nowadays.

1915 app. - civilians, soldiers and children posing at the market square.