This is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

I'll be back again on January 1st with brand new episodes.

Located at approximately 100 kilometers east of Rotterdam, the city of Nymaggin is mid-sized Dutch city

situated on the Wall River that few people outside of the Netherlands are familiar with.

For the last several years years however, every single day,

regardless of the weather, the people of Naimagen have honored the events that

took place in the city 76 years ago. Learn more about the city of Naimagan and the Daily Sunset March on this episode of sponsored by audible.

If you want a more in-depth account of the Battle of Nymegan,

the audio book I would recommend is Left for Dead at Nymegan,

the true story of an American paratrooper in World War II by Marcus Nannini.

The book tells the story of Jean Metcalf, who was a paratrooper who landed outside Nymaggin.

He details the failure of the planning of Operation Market Garden and how it led to his capture and tenure as a POW in Germany.

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Before I explain what is happening today in the city of Nymigan, I first need to set the table by explaining what happened back in September 1944.

The Allies had landed in Normandy back in June and were pushing north into Belgium and the Netherlands.

The goal was to get to Berlin quickly and try to finish the war by Christmas.

To achieve this, British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery hatched a plan known as Operation Market Garden.

Market Garden was an audacious plan whereby Allied paratroopers would be dropped behind enemy lines to take key bridges and land forces would then rush up

behind them to advance and cut off German forces. The airborne component was the

market and the ground forces were the garden. If successful, this would have created a 100

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