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Jan Loos volunteers at Oosterbeek’s Airborne Museum Jan Loos volunteers at Oosterbeek’s Airborne Museum A memorable meeting with 90-year-old local Jan Loos on the Liberation Route walking trail MikeMacEacheran Wed 17 Mar 2021 02.30 EDT Last modified on Thu 18 Mar 2021 06.55 EDT At a crossroads on the outskirts of the Dutch village of Oosterbeek is a grand cafe that first opened in 1894, where cups of coffee are served alongside schnitzel and meatballs. First impressions suggest it is a typical Dutch bistro, but Restaurant Schoonoord’s brown-brick frontage hides another story. During the last vestiges of the second world war, the building was set up as an emergency field hospital by the British 1st Airborne Division.

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