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- [Narrator] After months of planning

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throughout the summer of 1944,

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Allied forces made one of
the largest commitments

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yet seen during World War Two.

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Beginning on September 17th,
in a two-pronged attack.

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Operation Market Garden
was launched by both

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air and ground units, moving East through

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the Netherlands.

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The air attack was the
largest airborne operation

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in World War Two.

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Delivering, roughly, thirty-thousand men

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from the British First Airborne Division,

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82nd Lowland Infantry Division,

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Polish First Airborne Division, and

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American 82nd and 101st
Airborne Divisions.

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The ground assault consisted primarily of

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the British 30 Core and was initially

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spearheaded by the
Guards Armored Division.

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Airborne divisions would
join the 30 Core in the

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breakout from the Arnhem bridge head.

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While the roads to Arnhem
would be come know as,

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'Hell's Highway'

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to the men who fought
during the operation.

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While the impact of Market Garden was felt

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throughout the war effort,
the operation failed

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to achieve its main
objective of gaining control

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of the Rhine River.

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Resulting, in the final
withdrawal of Allied forces

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from the Rhine on September 25.

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