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MAGNIFICENT DISASTER: The Failure of Market Garden, The Arnhem Operation, September 1944

A Magnificent Disaster After Normandy, the most spectacular Allied offensive of World War II was Operation Market Garden, which saw three divisions of paratroopers dropped behind German lines, to be joined by massive armoured columns breaking through the front. The ultimate object was to seize a crossing over the Rhine to outflank the heartland of the Third Reich. Full description

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