A Bridge Too Far
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Thank you, Waddy.
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Thank you, gentlemen.
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Do sit down, gentlemen.
Please sit down.

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Look after these.
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Thank you, gentlemen.
Thank you.

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Gentlemen, this is a story
that you will tell your grandchildren...

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and mightily bored they'll be.
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The plan is called
Operation Market Garden.

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Market is the airborne element,
and Garden the ground forces--

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That's us.
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Now this is our position
on the Belgian border here.

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Tomorrow, three airborne divisions
will begin landing in Holland--

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thirty-five thousand men
taking off from 24 airfields...

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in troop-carrying planes
or towed in gliders.

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The American 101st here...
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around Eindhoven...
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the American 82nd here...
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south of Nijmegen...
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and our own 1st Airborne boys
and a Polish brigade...

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here at Arnhem...
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sixty-four miles...
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behind enemy lines.
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Now, their job
is to take and hold...

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all the bridges
in these three areas.

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Our job is to punch a hole...
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through the German
front line here...

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and then drive like hell
up this road...

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Iinking up with each
airborne division on the way up.

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Speed is the vital factor.

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