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Arnhem (Operation Market Garden)

1st Allied Airborne Corps, which included the American 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, was tasked to secure the main canal and river crossings between Eindhoven and Arnhem.

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Italy

The Italians had capitulated while the force was still at sea. The sinking of HMS Abdiel by a mine in the harbour, however, resulted in the loss of 130 soldiers from 6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion including their Commanding Officer.

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Sicily (Operation Husky)

Speed was essential to prevent the consolidation of Italian and German defences facing a rapid pincer movement launched from the west and south east immediately after the amphibious landings. Key bridges and ports were to be captured by airborne assault.

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Major Mervyn Dennison, 1944.

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The Officers' Mess, 3rd Parachute Battalion, Spalding, Lincolnshire, 1944.

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CQMS Hayburn, Major Dennison, CSM Watson of A Coy, 3rd Para Bn at Altamura, Italy, 1943.

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Peter Green said:

Commanded A Company 3 Para at Arnhem. Captured and ended the war at Oflag IX A/H Spangenberg.

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Major Mervyn Dennison CBE MC QC JP DL BA

13 Jul 1914 - 12 Jan 1993

Operations

Arnhem (Operation Market Garden)

Italy

Sicily (Operation Husky)

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Major Mervyn Dennison CBE MC QC JP DL BA

13 Jul 1914 - 12 Jan 1993

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Arnhem (Operation Market Garden)

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Sicily (Operation Husky)

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