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It combined one of the largest airborne assaults in history, known as "Market", with a ground offensive, "Garden", aimed at swiftly capturing key bridges over the Rhine River.

In what was dubbed Operation Viersen, the soldiers used the inflatables, sound trucks and phony headquarters to draw German units away from the point on the Rhine River where the 9th Army was actually crossing.

Allied forces would temporarily occupy a band of German territory along the Rhine River, and Germany would be required to pay reparations, or damages, for the loss and destruction caused by the war.

Army’s 90th Division — which was actually 10 miles north of the 603rd — to cross the Rhine River with less resistance.

Wagner sonically describes the Rhine River in the opening, but this wasn’t a Rhine with dazzling clear water.