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Operation Varsity Airborne Assault

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1945

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1st24 March 1945

Rhine · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Supports the Rhine crossing with the large British-American airborne assault of Operation Varsity.

Names involved

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1st

Provenance

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