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I've just got back to England
from Brussels...
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where I had a meeting this morning
with Field Marshal Montgomery.
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There was an earlier one
with General Eisenhower.
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They both feel, as I do...
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that when the Field Marshal's plan
has succeeded...
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we should be able
to end the war by Christmas...
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in less than 100 days.
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Actually, the plan
is really very simple.
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We're going to fly 35,000 men 300 miles,
and drop them behind enemy lines.
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It'll be the largest
airborne operation ever mounted.
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Quite frankly, this kind of thing's
never been attempted before.
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- Where's this all going to take place?
- Holland.
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- And when?
- I'm coming to that now.
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Right.
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The ground forces: 30 Corps, commanded
by General Horrocks, 20,000 vehicles.
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And this, as you know,
is the German front line.
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Now we're going to lay a carpet,
as it were, of airborne troops...
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over which 30th Corps can pass.
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We shall seize the bridges--
it's all a question of bridges--
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with thunderclap surprise...
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and hold them until
they can be secured.
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Now first of all,
General Maxwell Taylor...
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Eindhoven.
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You take and hold
the bridges there with 101st.
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General Gavin,
with your 82nd...
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you get Nijmegen.
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You take and hold the bridges.
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And Roy, you get the prize:
Arnhem.
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Arnhem Bridge.
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- And you hold it.
- For how long?
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Monty assures me that 30 Corps...
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will do the 63 miles
in two days.
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Sixty-three miles in two days.