Operation Market Garden
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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 salient span
Paratroopers of the First Allied Airborne Army descending over the Netherlands
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Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery
Infantry of 50th (Northumbrian) Division moving up past a knocked-out German 88mm gun near 'Joe's Bridge' over the Meuse-Escaut Canal in Belgium, 16 September 1944
A Bridge Too Far (film)
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A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film directed by Richard Attenborough. It depicts Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied operation in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II; the film'
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…themselves, including Kate ter Horst, Frederick Gough, John Frost, and Stanley Maxted, a Canadian journalist who posted reports from Arnhem. The second, A Bridge Too Far, was released in 1977 based on the 1974 book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan. Unlike Theirs Is the Glory, which only covered the Battle of Arnhem…
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Shooting of a scene in Deventer on 18 May 1976. German vehicles are crossing the bridge.