Boarding Paratroopers at Mil West (On Base Footage)

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Boarding Paratroopers at Mil West (On Base Footage)

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During Falcon Leap hundreds of paratroopers are dropped in several drop zones over the Netherlands and Belgium. falcon leap is one of the largest annual airborne exercises in the world. It is not weird that an airborne exercise of this format is held at Eindhoven Air Base and its surroundings. This area stretching from Leopoldsburg in Belgium until Arnhem in the Netherlands was the theater of the world largest airborne operation in history during the Second World War. In September 1944 operation Market Garden was launched with the goal to capture the bridges over the big Dutch rivers to quickly end the war. This operation succeeded except near the bridge at Arnhem. Every year this operation is memorized during the Market Garden Memorial. On Saturday 17th of September this memorial is held at the Ginkelse Heide near Ede and Arnhem. The aircraft participating at this event will drop paratroopers from the United States and Europe at this location. yearly thousands of spectator join this event. In this video you can see how the paratroopers are boarding the transport planes for another Flacon Leap mission.

Regards Alex van Noye,

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