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π‘οΈ Resistance & Espionage
The Dutch Spy Who Saved Operation Market Garden
On September 17, 1944, the day Operation Market Garden launched, a Dutch resistance member using the codename "Gε΄rrit" (Gerrit) transmitted the complete German defensive positions in the Netherlands to Allied intelligenc...
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ποΈ Western Front
Operation Market Garden's Forgotten Bridge
Most people know about Arnhem and the bridge too far. But the critical battle was at Nijmegen β the Waal River bridge β where a group of American paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne executed one of the most audacious day...