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Operation Market Garden

Thousands of Allied troops parachuted into Nazi-occupied Holland in September 1944. It was the most ambitious Allied airborne offensive of World War Two. British, American and Polish paratroopers were dropped behind German lines in an attempt to capture a series of bridges over rivers and canals on the Dutch/German border. Witness hears from Hetty Bischoff van Heemskerck, a young Dutch woman from the city of Arnhem, who watched the Allied paratroopers come down.

(Photo: Allied planes and parachutists over Arnhem, Getty Images)

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