Campaign
Operation Market Garden
17 Sept 1944 – 25 Sept 1944 · Eindhoven – Nijmegen – Arnhem, Netherlands
An Allied airborne and ground operation to seize a chain of bridges in the Netherlands and cross the Rhine at Arnhem. American divisions took bridges at Eindhoven and Nijmegen, but the British 1st Airborne Division and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade at Arnhem could not be relieved and were withdrawn with heavy losses.
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