The Arnhem Parachute Drop

Witness History

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🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of Allied troops parachuted into the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in September 1944. At that point, it was the most ambitious Allied airborne offensive of World War Two. British, American and Polish troops were dropped behind German lines in an attempt to capture a series of bridges on the Dutch/German border. Mike Lanchin has spoken to Hetty Bischoff van Heemskerck who, as a young woman, watched the Allied paratroopers come down close to her home in the city of Arnhem.

(Photo: Allied planes and parachutists over Arnhem, Getty Images)

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0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
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0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds hello and now on the
1:00.6	BBC World Service history with witness. I'm Mike Lanchin. Today, Operation
1:06.0	Market Garden, one of the largest airborne offensives of World War II, when the Allies
1:11.6	parachuted thousands of troops into the occupied Netherlands in September
1:16.2	of 1944.
1:18.4	It was a bold attempt to bring about the final defeat of Nazi Germany. I've been to the Netherlands to speak to a Dutch
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