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Parachute drop near Arnhem marks 80 years since Operation Market Garden
Airborne units from eight Nato nations participate in commemoration of ill-fated second world war manoeuvre
Eighty years after thousands of allied airborne troops parachuted into the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in a daring military offensive, their modern counterparts have made the same jump.
Paratroopers from eight Nato-member countries, including the UK, US, Portugal and Spain, parachuted from 12 aircraft into Ginkel Heath, a nature reserve near the Dutch town of Ede, on Saturday.
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