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The
17 September 1944 Market Garden Operation known
to most British people as the Battle of Arnhem,
was mostly fought around the small Dutch town of
Oosterbeek and it is here that the Hartenstein Museum
records the story of the battle and where many of
the airborne soldiers lie in a Commonwealth War
Graves Cemetery.
The
soldiers of the British 1st Airborne Division who
were scheduled to take the bridge at Arnhem, were
dropped/landed up to 8 miles away from their target
thus allowing the Germans time to react. The commander
of the 1st Airborne Division, General Urquhart established
his HQ in the Hartenstein, now the Airborne Museum,
and it became the focus of British resistance in
an area that was known as the Cauldron.
Eventually
the airborne were evacuated across the River Rhine
just below Oosterbeek in an operation that owed
much to the evacuation from Gallipoli in December
1915. |
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