The Deelen Dump in Holland

[David Dunlop]

This location has become famous for Canadian Military Vehicle buffs because of the presence at the end of the war of the large vehicle depot established there. Can anyone provide some background history of the location?

Over the years I have seen it referred to as a large piece of farm property, government land, and an airfield. If it was an airfield, was it a prewar Dutch air base, or was it an air field built by the Germans during the war? It is hard to tell from most photos of the vehicles in storage there, that it might have been an airfield. Always seems to be lots of trees and rolling ground in the photos.

David