Operation Pegasus

Когда

22 окт. 1944 г. – 23 окт. 1944 г.

Вид

Военная операция

Координаты

51.98° N, 5.73° E

Description

1944 attempt by Allied forces to recover troops behind German lines

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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