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Walking arm-in-arm with the Dutch queen, American World War II veteran Kenneth Thayer returned Thursday to the tiny village that he and others in the 30th Infantry Division liberated from Nazi occupation exactly 80 years ago.
Thayer still recalls the day. He told The Associated Press he was sent out on a reconnaissance mission the night before the liberation and saw no Germans. What felt like another day of work for soldiers who had fought their way from the beaches of Normandy, through northern France and Belgium to cross the Netherlands on their way into Germany is forever woven into the history of the village as the end of more than four years of Nazi occupation.Thayer, the king, and the queen were driven in a vintage military truck into the village along a mud track through orchards and fields.
A schoolteacher, Jef Warnier, is remembered as the first Dutch person to be liberated, although others may have beaten him to the honor. After spending the previous night in a cellar with his family, he emerged to see an American soldier holding a German at gunpoint.American troops from the 30th Infantry Division, known as Old Hickory, were among Allied forces that liberated parts of Belgium and the southern Netherlands from German occupation in September 1944.
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