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Operation Market Garden veterans retrace their footsteps 81 years later

WIESBADEN, Germany – U.S. Army veterans who bravely fought in World War II participated in commemorative events honoring the 81st anniversary of Operation Market Garden in several cities in the ...
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Books: Bloody Market Garden

SURGEON AT ARMS (227 pp.)—by Daniel Paul with John St. John—Norton ($3.95). Leaping from 1,000 transports, pouring from 500 crash-landed gliders, 34,000 U.S. and British airborne troops slammed at ...
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Operation Market Garden – 81 years later

WIESBADEN, Germany – Approximately 100 U.S. Army Soldiers from European-based units and two contiguous U.S.-based units participated in commemorative events honoring the 81st anniversary of Operation ...
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Airborne : World War II paratroopers in combat / editor, Julie Guard

Airborne warfare reached its peak during World War II -- the only war in which the potential gains of using airborne tactics ever justified the great costs, both material and human. The revolutionary ...
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British airborne troops, 1940-45 / Barry Gregory

nasmain copy 39088020698411 Donor note: Gift of Norman Polmar. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...