Celebrating the Battle of Arnhem.

[Swampy]

A mass parachute drop has taken place in the Netherlands to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden in World War Two.

Monty wanted to shoot a thin line straight to Berlin, and he thought he was the one to do it. But, as this disaster called Operation Market Garden showed, he was the last one to try something like that. Patton, maybe, Monty, no.

[Sir John]

And Eisenhower knew that it was going to cost a zillion allied lives in taking Berlin and he had NIL intention of paying that price. Russia was going to get Berlin, and they would have to spill the blood.

SJ