The 82nd Airborne across the Waal

20th September 1944: Paratroopers take to boats to seize a German-held bridge, as the Allies try to force open the route north to Arnhem

A key objective for Market Garden was the capture intact of the two bridges across the Waal at Nijmegen, enabling Allied armour a route north,

Operation Market Garden was a series of airborne attacks on a succession of bridges on the route into Germany. The US 82nd Airborne Division had dropped in Nijmegen on the 17th - and been engaged in a furious figh…