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Daring but unsuccessful: Operation Market Garden remembered on 80th anniversary

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Daring but unsuccessful: Operation Market Garden remembered on 80th anniversary

Daring but unsuccessful: Operation Market Garden remembered on 80th anniversary

Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands on Saturday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of World War II's most daring — but ultimately unsuccessful — missions, Operation Market Garden.


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