âOn this day in 1945, 16,000 Allied airborne troops land near Wesel Germany. Operation Varsity, the largest single-day parachute and glider assault in history, succeeds in securing a series of bridges over the Rhine River.â
Video transcript
The men await their orders to stand up, go. 600 feet below lie the Nazi guns that must be knocked down. Eight to ten seconds.
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