C-47 transport planes release hundreds of paratroops and their supplies over the Rees-Wesel
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.
Source Imperial War Museum via iwm.org.uk
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