Paratroopers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute
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Paratroopers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division pose for a photo with a Dutch child prior to a ceremony at the John Thompson Bridge in Grave, The Netherlands, September 17, 2019. The ceremony commemorated the moment a group of Paratroopers from the 504th PIR, lead by 1st Lieutenant John S. Thompson, seized this location, then called "Bridge 11."
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1st brigade combat team
82nd airborne division
market garden
the netherlands
military history
504th parachute infantry regiment
82nd airborne
history
airborne
nijmegen
operation market garden
1944
all the way
strong europe
strongeurope
wwii 75 ineurope
mg 75
market garden 75
master sgt alexander burnett
grave
netherlands
82nd paratroopers dutch citizens honor john thompson bridge namesake
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