C-47 transport planes release hundreds of paratroops


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US Army Signal Corps photographer

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IWM caption : Crossing the Rhine 24 -31 March 1945: C-47 transport planes release hundreds of paratroops and their supplies over the Rees-Wesel area to the east of the Rhine. This was the greatest airborne operation of the war. Some 40,000 paratroops were dropped by 1,500 troop-carrying planes and gliders.


Comment : This was Operation Varsity, part of Operation Plunder.
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