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Word: nijnegen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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More C-47s, the largest force of all, went farther eastward. Soon below them lay the great bend of the Rhine, where it turns west to the sea. There, near the Dutch town of Nijnegen, and only fourteen miles from the German city of Cleve, where the Siegfried Line ends, brown and white and yellow and blue parachutes soon filled the fields on both sides of the wide Rhine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (West): History in the Air | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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