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

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   After 10 days of fighting and up to 16,000 Allied casualties, Operation Market Garden had failed to secure the main bridgehead near Arnhem, although the Allies did successfully liberate the cities ...

4. A culture of commemoration is still thriving in this Dutch ...

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   Harrowing details of Operation Market-Garden, the war’s largest airborne operation, which unfolded about 70 miles (113 kilometers) away. ... At the $6.7 million visitor center that opened in ...

5. Operation Market Garden order of battle - Wikipedia

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   Organization of I Airborne Corps during Operation Market Garden. 1st Airborne Division, Major-General Roy Urquhart. 1st Parachute Brigade, Brigadier Gerald Lathbury. 1st Parachute Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel David T. Dobie; 2nd Parachute Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel John Frost; 3rd Parachute Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel John A.C. Fitch

6. 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 ...

7. Black Friday (1944) - Wikipedia

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   Black Friday was the nickname given by the 1st Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada to the date 13 October 1944. On that day, during World War II's Battle of the Scheldt in The Netherlands, the regiment attacked German positions on a raised railway embankment near the village of Hoogerheide after advancing across 1,200 yards of open beet fields.

8. Battle of Arnhem - Wikipedia

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   The Battle of Arnhem was fought during the Second World War, as part of the Allied Operation Market Garden. It took place around the Dutch city of Arnhem and vicinity from 17 to 26 September 1944. The Allies had swept through France and Belgium in August 1944, after the Battle of Normandy .

9. Operation Market Garden veteran marks 100th birthday - AOL

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