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Planes drop paratroopers.

Paratrooper Drop

Army Air Force C-47s cross the Rhine River in Germany sometime between March 24 and March 31, 1945. They released hundreds of paratroopers and their supplies near the towns of Rees and Wesel to the east of the Rhine.

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