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🏖️ 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 — the Waal River bridge — where a group of American paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne executed one of the most audacious day...
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🏖️ Western Front
The 101st Airborne's Lost Paratrooper
Private John M. K. Steele was one of the most famous paratroopers from D-Day — he famously got caught on the spire of the church in Sainte-Mère-Église, hanging limp and playing dead for hours while the town burned below....