Boxtel residents can celebrate three times on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 October. For they have been liberated three times. On the morning of the 24th, some armoured vehicles of the 15th Scottish Reconnaissance Regiment drive from Best to Boxtel. The group consists of several Bren Gun Carriers and Humber armoured cars. The Carriers are parked on the outskirts of the town. The two Humbers under the command of Lieutenant Gordon Dalton drive on to the town centre. There they  halt at the blown Swan Bridge. Dalton lets them explore the other side of the Dommel and takes time himself to have a bite to eat and pose for some curious civilians. After a while they head back towards Best.

On the Kampina Heath from 17 September 1944, dozens of Allied Airborne soldiers have been hiding. They are American, Polish and British glider pilots and airborne soldiers. The Boxtel resistance supplied them with food for weeks. They could hear the shelling on Schijndel during the days before 23 October 1944, and the impatient British Airbornes in particular are only too eager to seek out their British comrades after hiding from the Germans for weeks. The Americans are a little more cautious. In the evening of 24 October, they set off from the Kampina at 17.30 to make contact in Boxtel with the British 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders on the other side of the Afwateringskanaal. Klaas Dekker from Boxtel plays an important role by informing the Seaforth Highlanders that Airborne soldiers are already in Boxtel. From the Kampina, they form a motley crew of about 120 resistance fighters from Boxtel and British, American and Polish Airbornes, a Dutch commando and German prisoners of war. They arrive first at Stapelen castle and occupy the cloisters in the castle. At 7pm, they decide to continue towards the centre of Boxtel, more or less liberating the town and occupying positions around it.

Not until the next morning do they come into contact with tanks of the East Riding Yeomanry and infantry of the Seaforth Highlanders as they drive into Boxtel. It is still dark when the new liberators arrive in Boxtel at 4.30am.  This is the third group to liberate Boxtel. The crews of the Sherman tanks are dumbfounded by the dozens of paratroopers. Have paratroopers landed here? Either way, Boxtel is now definitively liberated.