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Operation Market Garden, 1st Airborne Division, September 17th, 1944, Part 3 (opens the original)
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On Sunday, September 17th, 1944, the largest airborne operation in history begins. This episode follows the first lift of the British 1st Airborne Division from the runways of southern England to the heaths and farmland west of Arnhem. It starts in darkness. Almost 1,400 Allied sorties strike German airfields, flak positions and barracks around Arnhem, Deelen and Ede. At Wolfheze, the bombs fall on the village and on the psychiatric institution, Stichting Wolfheze, killing 87 civilians. Then the
Preparations for Operation Market Garden, Part 2 (opens the original)
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In Part Two of this opening episode, the ground half of Operation Market Garden takes shape: XXX Corps, spearheaded by the Guards Armoured Division, tasked with breaking out from the bridgehead at Joe's Bridge and driving up a single road to reach the airborne forces at Arnhem, on a timetable that leaves almost no margin for delay. Then come the final days before the operation launches: last briefings, cancelled leave, a night of heavy Allied bombing against German airfields and defences across
Preparations For Operation Market Garden, Part 1 (opens the original)
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September 1944. The Allied armies have shattered the German front in France and driven deep into Belgium, and then, suddenly, they run out of road. Low on fuel, stretched across hundreds of kilometres of supply lines, the advance stalls just short of the Dutch border. Out of that crisis comes Operation Market Garden: the largest airborne operation ever attempted, a daring bid to seize a chain of bridges across Holland and open a path straight into the heart of Germany. In Part One of this two-pa
1st Commando Fiji Guerillas, Part 2 (opens the original)
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By mid-1942 the Japanese tide in the Pacific is turning, and the invasion Fiji feared never comes. But the war is not finished with the First Commando Fiji Guerrillas. In this episode, the American forces take over the defence of Fiji, and the New Zealand-led commandos pass under a new command. They become an unexpected thing: a jungle-warfare school for the incoming US Army, running night raids and mock ambushes against their own allies, and arming their Fijian soldiers at last. Then the orders
1st Commando Fiji Guerrillas, Part 1 (opens the original)
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In the dark first months of 1942, the Japanese advance sweeps south across the Pacific, and Fiji lies squarely in its path. The islands guard the sea and air routes that keep Australia and New Zealand supplied, yet the garrison is far too small to hold every shore. The answer is an unusual one. In the least accessible corners of the main island, a handful of New Zealanders are sent to raise small bands of guerrillas from the Fijian people, and to hide them in the bush. Their orders are not to wi
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