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Lower Rhine

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Lower Rhine
The portion of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea.


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The Examiner's mention recently of the attempted Allied invasion of northern Germany that year reminded Mrs Holgate that she met one of the principal players in Operation Market Garden, an airborne attack on the Lower Rhine that came unstuck at Arnhem, and became known to our generation as A Bridge Too Far.
In Kleve, located in the Lower Rhine, production will cease at the end of 2010.
The military action was led by the First British Airborne Division (an elite unit known as the Red Devils) whose assignment was to seize the bridge across the Lower Rhine at Arnhem.
 
 
 
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