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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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