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September 1944 the American 101st and 82nd Airborne
Divisions together with the British 1st Airborne
Division and the 1st Polish Independent Parachute
Brigade, were tasked to capture a number of bridges
in German occupied Holland.
The
bridge at the town of Grave on the River Maas, was
taken by the 82nd Airborne, the All American
Division, in a swift operation that involved
landing troops at both ends of the bridge.
At
the southern end of the bridge is a most imaginative
memorial to the 504th PIR while on the other side
of the river not far away at Overasselt is the memorial
to the US 325th Glider Battalion, the Polish Battalion
and the 504th PIR, which is the cover picture on
our Battlelfield Guide to Arnhem shown opposite.
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