THE HAGUE Will Fuller V Texans Jersey , Sept. 21(Xinhua) -- This whole week the Netherlands has been commemorating Operation Market Garden, one of the major Allied defeats in the history of World War II seventy years ago, finishing on Sunday.


On Sunday the landing of the American parachutists and the crossing by boats of the Waal river at Nijmegen is re-enacted. Yesterday the heroic contribution of the Polish Brigade was commemorated in Arnhem in the presence of the Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski and Dutch King Willem-Alexander.


In September 1944 the Allied Forces hoped to bring a quick defeat to the German Army by a swift thrust to the North Julien Davenport Texans Jersey , crossing major rivers in Holland, which would enable them to push forward to the main industrial area of Nazi Germany, the Ruhr.


They managed to cross the river Waal at Nijmegen D'Onta Foreman Texans Jersey , but failed to capture the major bridge across the river Rhine at Arnhem, despite the major airborne operation in history, a Bridge Too Far like the name of the famous 1977 war film. Three U.S. and two British Airborne divisions Zach Cunningham Texans Jersey , and a Polish Brigade participated in the landing operations.


The British First Airborne Division, which had landed West of Arnhem, met with heavier German resistance than expected Women's Breno Giacomini Jersey , and just managed to hold on to a small bridgehead on the North side of the river at Arnhem. Allied losses were heavy. The Allied offensive was discontinued until March 1945. The Northern half of the Netherlands was liberated then.

Marouane Fellaini of Manchester United controls the ball during their 3-0 English Premier League win over Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford in Manchester, England on March 15. Photo: IC

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