John S. Thompson Bridge
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 8 ″ N , 5 ° 44 ′ 9 ″ E
 John S. Thompsonbrug
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| Convicted | Provinciale Weg 324, bicycle and pedestrian lane |
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| Subjugated | Meuse | |
| place | Grave | |
| Entertained by | Rijkswaterstaat | |
| construction | Truss bridge | |
| overall length | 515 m | |
| Headroom | 4.8 m | |
| start of building | 1926 | |
| completion | 1929 | |
| opening | October 5, 1929 | |
| engineer | CF Egelie (Rijkswaterstaat) | |
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The John S. Thompson Bridge ( Dutch John S. Thompsonbrug ) is a bridge over the Maas between Grave and Nederasselt in the Netherlands . It is important for the road connection from 's-Hertogenbosch to Nijmegen and was built between 1926 and 1929.
The bridge was a strategic target for Operation Market Garden in 1944 . In 2004 it was named after Lieutenant John S. Thompson (1917–1988), who took it with his group during the operation.
Web links
Commons : John S. Thompson Bridge - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files
- Brug te Grave . In: cultureelerfgoed.nl . Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch)
- The John S. Thompson Bridge . In: liberationroute.de . Liberation Route Europe Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Gary Bedingfield: Baseball in Wartime - Jocko Thompson. In: baseballinwartime.com. February 10, 2017, accessed October 21, 2018 .