Paratroopers examine wreckage of a glider during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corp Photograph, Gift of Maude Hayman, from the collection of The National World War II Museum
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Paratroopers examine wreckage of a glider plane, Operation Market-Garden. "ETO-HQ-44-15263. Jones. 18 Sept. Signal corps photo. American airborne troops that landed behind the German lines in Holland examine what is left of one the gliders that had "cracked up"." The Netherlands. 18 September 1944.
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Collection of European Theater U.S. Army Signal Corps photographs.
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Nederland
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52.500
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5.750
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Netherlands
Gliders (Aircraft)--American--Netherlands
Paratroopers--American--Netherlands