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
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…
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