5th QM Det. helps commemorate Operation Market Garden

09-24-2010, 07:27 AM

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5th QM Det. helps commemorate Operation Market Garden

On September 17, 1944, thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky by parachute and glider up to 150 kilometers behind enemy lines. Their goal was to secure two bridges across the rivers in Holland so the Allied armies could advance rapidly northward and turn right into the lowlands of Germany, thereby skirting around the German defense line. The operation was called Market Garden.

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