What the records say
- When
- 22 Oct 1944 – 23 Oct 1944
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 51.98° N, 5.73° E
- Description
- 1944 attempt by Allied forces to recover troops behind German lines
Operation Pegasus
Military evacuation after Battle of Arnhem (1944) during WW2
Operation Pegasus was a military operation carried out on the Lower Rhine near the village of Renkum, close to Arnhem in the Netherlands. Overnight on 22–23 October 1944, Allied military forces, Britain's MI9 intelligence organisation, and the Dutch Resistance evacuated 138 men, mostly soldiers trapped in German-occupied territory who had been in hiding since the Battle of Arnhem a month earlier.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Операция Пегас по спасению оказавшихся в тылу немецких войск военнослужащих союзных армий, проводившаяся в районе Нижнего Рейна в Нидерландах”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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