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Operation Varsity (24 March 1945) was a successful joint American, British and Canadian airborne operation that took place toward the end of World War II.

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rdfs:comment	Operation Varsity (24 March 1945) was a successful joint American, British and Canadian airborne operation that took place toward the end of World War II.
foaf:name	Operation Varsity
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causalties	2,378–2,700 casualtiesref\|Ellis puts 6th Airborne losses as 1,400 dead, wounded or captured and places the 17th Airborne losses as 1,300 dead, wounded or captured. The official British Parachute Regiment website places 6th Airborne losses at 1,078 killed or wounded.\|group="Note" 72 aircraftref\|Over 1,700 aircraft were employed during the airlift of the airborne forces, of which 56 planes were lost. A further 240 planes flew a resupply mission following the glider landings, 16 planes were shot down. Of the 1,300 gliders employed during the operation, under 4% were destroyed.\|group="Note"
combatant	22pxGermany
commander	Ridgway, Matthew Blumentritt, Gunther Bols, Eric The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
date	1945-03-24(xsd:dateTime)
is part of military conflict	Operation Plunder
place of military conflict	Germany Wesel
result	Allied victory
strength	8,000 (est.)ref\|Otway claims that Allied intelligence placed 7 Parachute Division and 84 Infantry Division at around 4,000 men each after having suffered heavy casualties in previous campaigns, these being the two German formations facing the Allied airborne forces.\|group="Note" 16,870ref\|6th Airborne landed 7,220 men, 17th Airborne landed 9,650 men.\|group="Note"
thumbnail	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/C-47_transport_planes_release_hundreds_of_paratroops.jpg?width=300
is battle of	Ridgway, Matthew 17th Airborne Division 6th Airborne Division Lewis Nixon Pine-Coffin, Richard Geoffrey 11th Armoured Division 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment Stryker, Stuart S. Simpson, William Bischoff, Leonhard 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion 9th (Eastern and Home Counties) Parachute Battalion Alfred Dürrwanger 195th (Airlanding) Field Ambualance 225th (Parachute) Field Ambulance Edson Duncan Raff 3rd Parachute Brigade First Allied Airborne Army Glider Pilot Regiment 5th Parachute Brigade Williams, Paul L. Born, Heinrich 12th (Yorkshire) Parachute Battalion Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Erdmann 224th (Parachute) Field Ambulance IX Troop Carrier Command 33rd Armoured Brigade 6th Airlanding Brigade Bols, Eric Hill, James Northamptonshire Yeomanry George J. Peters Delica, Egon The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein 605th Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion 77th Air Refueling Squadron 78th Air Refueling Squadron 79th Air Refueling Squadron '''Floyd L. Parks 32d Flying Training Squadron 94th Flying Training Squadron Eberhard Rodt Martin Steglich Dipl.-Ing. Ernst Hammer

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