An example of the resistance in Ede hiding British soldiers is General Hacket, who was in hiding with the De Nooy sisters in Ede. In 1944 Hackett is in command of the 4th British parachute brigade during Operation Market Garden. He is warmly received on 18 September 1944 when he, with his 4th British parachute brigade, lands on the Ginkelse heath.
At the end of the Battle of Arnhem he was badly wounded in his stomach. An operation saves his life. By Piet Kruyff, Hackett is 'kidnapped' from the hospital ten days later. He is housed in Ede, in the Torenstraat 5, with four older 'aunts' De Nooij: the unmarried sisters Mien, Anna and Cor and the widow Rie Snoek-de Nooij. He will stay there for more than four months until he is able to find his way to the British lines by bike. With a 'Mr. van Dalen's' identity card in his pocket and the 'SH'-pin for the deaf and hard of hearing on his lapel, Hackett, on the arm of one of the sisters, took longer and longer walks every evening to improve his condition. On 30 January 1945 he cycled through the snow to Sliedrecht, a journey of about 85 kilometres.
After the failure of the Market Garden operation, the wandering of large groups of Brits across the Veluwe became more and more of a problem. Both for those who provided shelter and the British themselves. Finally operation Pegasus took place. Major Airey Neave was head of British Intelligence during the Second World War. In that function he was charged with providing escape routes for allied soldiers from occupied territory in Western Europe and therefore he was jointly responsible for operations Pegasus 1 and Pegasus 2. Operation Pegasus 1 in the night of 22 to 23 October 1944, more than 100 people were evacuated. In the night of October 22-23, Easy Company was ordered by the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division to secure the evacuation by sending a strong patrol to the north side of the river. Among the escaped soldiers of Pegasus 1 were Brigadier General Gerald Lathbury and Lieutenant at Sea Charles Douw van der Krap.

Due to the success of Pegasus 1, it was decided to carry out a second escape operation in which the assembly point was at Lunteren and the crossing over the Rhine at Heteren would be made. The local resistance was also closely involved in this escape attempt. On 16 November, the airbornes were collected in a chicken barn in Lunteren. The first night the group of about 90 people moved to Wekeromse Zand, where they spent the next day. The second night the group went to the Rhine via the Westerode farm meeting point. There it is not possible to let all the other groups join. This will cause them to fall behind on the planned timetable. They continue via the Mosselse Veld in the direction of Planken Wambuis. Around ten o'clock on that Saturday evening the British commander Major Maguire decides to take a shorter route. This is against the advice of the Edese resistance. When he turns away from the planned route, he already loses part of his rearguard. Near the Hindekamp the group of more than 80 men ends up in the middle of the German artillery constellations. After a German 'stop' a part of the group spreads itself in the bushes. When they continue, half of them remain ignorant. At the Heidebloemlaan only 40 men are still present. The commander goes back with two guides to pick up the rest. When the people who stayed behind go on the road again, they are stopped again by the Germans. The leader of the remaining men, Major Coke, doesn't answer and the Germans react with shots from their machine guns. There are wounded and British soldiers, allies and airborns are made prisoners of war. Major Coke gets lost as he gets away and arrives at Schriek farm at night. Here is a staff quarter of a German artillery battery located. The guard post discovers him and opens fire. Coke dies of his injuries.

The British commander Major Maguire and his group of allied soldiers hear this gunfight behind them when they are on their way to the Highway. When crossing it, enemy machine-gun fire follows from all sides. There is hardly any fighting back, because there is a lack of firepower. From the vanguard 17 men are still together, including Maguire and two Dutch guides.

They pass the road that is currently under construction and stop along the railway line. There they are captured in the early morning of 18 November. Only small groups manage to reach the Rhine in the end. Of the 116 airborns that started this journey, only seven people reached the liberated area.

During this tour we follow the trail of these men, who fell apart into small groups. They were, as it were, in the arms of the Germans who had set up artillery on the Wekeromse Zand to shoot at the Betuwe where the Americans were sitting. The British Major Coke managed to escape but was shot dead near a house in which there was a German army post. He is buried at the Airborne Cemetery in Oosterbeek.

Jannes Rap, a cousin of 'Jas' Beumer was a member of the underground. He brought a group of soldiers across the Rhine, together with a second guide, namely gamekeeper van der Born. Later Jannes Rap was arrested and taken to the Wormshoef in Lunteren and detained there. Because of his underground past, his farm 'De Westenrode' was burned down. During his captivity he sang of a possibility to escape. He counted the time that a sentry passed under the window. There was a sofa in front of the window and when he looked outside he saw that the gauze was so stretched that there was a 20 to 30 centimetres of free space left. He took a pillow for his face and jumped suddenly through the window and immediately rolled under the gauze. He was still being shot at, but he was not hit. He first ran away, came back to deceive the dogs and then ended up with a veterinarian who fixed him up. Through his brother in Utrecht, who worked for the police, he was forwarded to helpers who took in people in hiding. But after six months he was hit again. Jannes hid on the farm 'De Westenrode' in the straw of pigs when the Dutch SS surrounded his house and when the pigs started to growl he was discovered. They also found a parachute and when they asked him if he wanted to hide any more he had: 'Yes, further up in the woods'. He was sent two soldiers to point out the place and Jannes said: 'Yes, now I should have a look, yes there is the place on the right' and immediately he shot into the forest. The two soldiers shot at him and they hit him in the leg. John stumbled further in the direction of the Mussels path and when it became dark enough he crossed over and lay down behind a small hill. Then he went to Otterlo and knocked on the door of the double gamekeeper's house on the mussel path. His leg didn't look well and Dr. Beumer was called in to take care of the wound. They never got their hands on Jannes again.