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A Bridge Too Far — Netherlands
Operation Market Garden — British paratroopers hold the Arnhem bridge against overwhelming German armour. September 1944.
Lt. Col. John Frost's 2nd Battalion held the north end of Arnhem Bridge for four days with dwindling ammunition and no relief coming. Of 10,000 British airborne troops who landed at Arnhem, only 2,163 returned across the Rhine.