Britain at War - 09.2019

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Garden

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A BRIDGE

TOO FAR

THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT ARNHEM PROVED COSTLY FOR THE

ALLIES – MORE THAN 1,500 MEN WERE KILLED, OVER 6,500

WOUNDED OR TAKEN PRISONER AND THE RHINE WASN’T

CROSSED AGAIN UNTIL MARCH 1945. BUT THIS SHOULD

NOT DETRACT FROM THE BRAVERY OF THE MEN WHO SERVED

AT ARNHEM, WHO HELD OUT AGAINST THE ODDS, FIGHTING THE

GERMANS FOR EVERY INCH OF LAND. IT MAY HAVE BEEN

‘A BRIDGE TOO FAR’ AND A LOST CAUSE, BUT THEY FOUGHT LIKE

TIGERS TO THE VERY END. LEST WE FORGET.

MAIN The CWGC

Airborne Cemetry

in Oosterbeek.

ABOVE RIGHT

The Bellerophon and

Pegasus flash on the

memorial to British

and Polish airborne

forces at Wolfheze.

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