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2. Operation Market Garden - Wikipedia

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   Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine River), creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany ...

3. Arnhem (wargame) - Wikipedia

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   Cover of "Collector's Edition" boxed set, 1976. Arnhem, subtitled "Operation Market-Garden, September 1944" and also published as A Bridge Too Far: Arnhem, is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates Operation Market Garden during World War II, when Allied forces attempted to create a salient in the Netherlands, using paratroopers to take ...

4. John Frost (British Army officer) - Wikipedia

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   Major General John Dutton Frost, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DL (31 December 1912 – 21 May 1993) was an airborne officer of the British Army, best known for being the leader of the small group of British airborne troops that actually arrived at Arnhem bridge during the Battle of Arnhem in Operation Market Garden, in the Second World War.

5. King marks 80th anniversary of Second World War’s Operation ...

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   Charles’s words were spoken by the Princess Royal, representing the King at events this weekend marking the efforts of troops who in 1944 fought in Operation Market Garden, with the bold aim of ...

6. A Bridge Too Far (book) - Wikipedia

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   Ryan named his book after a comment attributed to Lieutenant General Frederick Browning before the operation, who reportedly said to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, "I think we may be going a bridge too far." [1] But Antony Beevor disputes this, saying that Browning had supported the operation, especially in view of receiving more resources ...

7. 1st Independent Parachute Brigade (Poland) - Wikipedia

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   The brigade's participation in Market Garden was prominently featured in the book and film of a A Bridge Too Far. General Sosabowski was portrayed by Gene Hackman . A first-hand account of one of the Polish paratroopers in Market Garden, Stanisław Kulik, is described in the book From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem: A Polish Paratrooper's Epic ...

8. Operation Market Garden re-enactment coming to ... - AOL

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   On Sept. 17, 1944, Operation Market Garden began, a military undertaking that consisted of two main parts. The first was dropping three airborne divisions to seize control of roads between the ...

9. 6th Airborne Division (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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   The division was entrained day after day later that month, over nearly a week, preparing to join Operation Market Garden but was eventually stood down. While still recruiting and reforming in England, it was mobilised again and sent to Belgium in December 1944, to help counter the surprise German offensive in the Ardennes , the Battle of the ...