Paratroopers remember Waal River Crossing
Simulated artillery and machine gun fire echoed across the water Wednesday morning at McKellars Lake on Fort Bragg.Six teams from the 307th Brigade Engineer Battalion, part of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, participated in a reenactment and competition commemorating the famed Waal River Crossing of World War II.The Sept. 20, 1944, mission to seize the bridge over the Waal River at Nijmegen, Netherlands, was part of Operation Market Garden — an […]
