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Pat Carry
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden It might be time for me to dust off my copy of "A Bridge to Far" and read it again. I have a question for anyone out there, when did the allies finally take Arnhem?

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Pat Carry wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden It might be time for me to dust off my copy of "A Bridge to Far" and read it again. I have a question for anyone out there, when did the allies finally take Arnhem?



That would be 1st Lt. William D. Bernier from Montana.

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Arnhem wasn't liberated until mid April, 1945. A joint British/Canadian force took the city after several days of heavy fighting.
Sadly, by then, the town was mostly a gutted shell. The allies had been bombing the bridge over the Rhine and the RR bridge nearby all through the previous Fall and Winter. Some German V2's also landed in the town as well.
Arnhem today is a very modern city, mostly because of all the postwar construction needed to rebuild the city.

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p51 wrote:
Arnhem wasn't liberated until mid April, 1945. A joint British/Canadian force took the city after several days of heavy fighting.
Sadly, by then, the town was mostly a gutted shell. The allies had been bombing the bridge over the Rhine and the RR bridge nearby all through the previous Fall and Winter. Some German V2's also landed in the town as well.
Arnhem today is a very modern city, mostly because of all the postwar construction needed to rebuild the city.

Thanks for the info. It truly was a Bridge too Far!

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Thanks for the info. It truly was a Bridge too Far!
I'd imagine the locals were quite fed up with the horrors of war by then, more so than some other regions affected by WW2. The Germans had cut off transportation to a lot of the Netherlands long before theu were liberated, and many of us here on the forum know of the campaign to drop food to starving Dutch civilians from bombers at the tail end of the war.
The Dutch really suffered badly, something that gets glossed over in histories of WW2

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Hmm! where to start with this one, so much to post :wink:

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C-47 Skytrains of the 439th Troop Carrier Group preparing to transport the 82nd Airborne to Nijmegen for Operation Market Garden, Juvincourt, France, Sep 8-17 1944

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Then and now photos are always fascinating ... Most of these photos are in and around the Arnhem area. Give me some time and I'll post a bunch of them.

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Mark, those are great! I love the before and after format.

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Some interesting viewing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyJTUL9S4zU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCgxoaSi1f0

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Thanx again Mr Mark Allen M, to share the verry nice pictures, from your collection
It is always a pleasure to watch, really sometimes long but also breathless 8) 8) 8)

For the commemorations of Market Garden, some short movies.
The C-47 lowpass over grave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew04HDdNUYA

Paradropping, from the C-47.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlYNGI2g ... HAEXWbTZVA

Dutch B-25 and Spitfire from The Dutch Royal Air Force Historical Flight. http://www.skhv.nl/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5l8uDC ... HAEXWbTZVA
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