Jan Bos is a retired police officer in his hometown Nijmegen in Holland. He is an amateur World War Two historian to the 82nd Airborne Division and Troop Carriers. The 82nd liberated Nijmegen during the so-called operation Market Garden, starting 17 September 1944. The paratroopers and glidermen from the 82nd Airborne Division could not do their job without the support of the crewmembers of the C-47s from the Troop Carrier transport planes, dropping the paratroopers and towing the CG-4A Waco gliders. I Am a member of the Historical Section of the National Liberation Museum in Groesbeek, Holland. Working on temporary American cemeteries in North Africa and Europe. Am also a member of the Groesbeek Airborne Friends. I have adopted several graves at Margraten (Holland), Draguignan in southern France and Henri Chapelle (Belgium) Cemeteries. All theaters where the 82nd fought are of my interest. I wrote a book about the 376th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion (82nd Airborne Division) and about the temporary American cemetery GELA on Sicily, where over 1,200 Americans were buried in the 1943-1948 period. The book was finished in the summer of 2015; both books are available on a DVD. The title:THEY STAYED BEHIND
I am still looking for the men's and women's pictures killed in Sicily during World War Two, all kind of data/reports and pictures of the individual graves of the Gela cemetery. Also pictures of their graves in the United States or in the Sicily Rome and Florence cemeteries in Europe.

Jan Bos is a retired police officer in his hometown Nijmegen in Holland. He is an amateur World War Two historian to the 82nd Airborne Division and Troop Carriers. The 82nd liberated Nijmegen during the so-called operation Market Garden, starting 17 September 1944. The paratroopers and glidermen from the 82nd Airborne Division could not do their job without the support of the crewmembers of the C-47s from the Troop Carrier transport planes, dropping the paratroopers and towing the CG-4A Waco gliders. I Am a member of the Historical Section of the National Liberation Museum in Groesbeek, Holland. Working on temporary American cemeteries in North Africa and Europe. Am also a member of the Groesbeek Airborne Friends. I have adopted several graves at Margraten (Holland), Draguignan in southern France and Henri Chapelle (Belgium) Cemeteries. All theaters where the 82nd fought are of my interest. I wrote a book about the 376th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion (82nd Airborne Division) and about the temporary American cemetery GELA on Sicily, where over 1,200 Americans were buried in the 1943-1948 period. The book was finished in the summer of 2015; both books are available on a DVD. The title:THEY STAYED BEHIND
I am still looking for the men's and women's pictures killed in Sicily during World War Two, all kind of data/reports and pictures of the individual graves of the Gela cemetery. Also pictures of their graves in the United States or in the Sicily Rome and Florence cemeteries in Europe.