Operation Varsity
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Operation Varsity was a successful airborne forces operation launched by Allied troops toward the end of World War II. Involving more than 16,000 paratroopers and several thousand aircraft, it is the
C-47 transport aircraft drop hundreds of paratroopers as part of Operation Varsity.
C-47s and CG-4A gliders before take-off, 24 March 1945
British paratroopers in Hamminkeln, 25 March 1945
The city of Wesel lies in ruin after Allied bombardment.
First Allied Airborne Army
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The First Allied Airborne Army was an Allied formation formed on 2 August 1944 by the order of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
Lieutenant General Lewis Brereton
American paratroopers of the First Allied Airborne Army, 17 September 1944
Operational Channels, First Allied Airborne Army, 28 November 1944.