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    Sunset March Market Garden [Image 7 of 10]

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    Sunset March Market Garden

    NETHERLANDS

    09.12.2017

    Photo by Spc. Cheyenne Shouse 

    173rd Airborne Brigade

    U.S. Army Paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Start the Sunset March on the De Oversteek bridge on September 12, 2017 during Market Garden.

    The city bridge 'De Oversteek' (The Crossing) opened in 2013. The location of the bridge marks the exact location where the allied crossing of River Waal took place during Operation Market Garden, at the end of World War II. On September 20, 1944, 48 American Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division lost their lives during this military operation. Every day at the onset of darkness, that crossing is repeated, but now with light: at sunset, the 48 lamp posts between the two shores turn on one by one, at the pace of a slow march. This turns the bridge into both an evocative and a tranquil, subtle monument to the heroic crossing of the River Waal.

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    Date Taken: 09.12.2017
    Date Posted: 09.13.2017 16:44
    Photo ID: 3765691
    VIRIN: 170912-A-EP975-509
    Resolution: 3701x3792
    Size: 13.27 MB
    Location: NL

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