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yilai:
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so lee's go out and
eat. Did you sleep well
tely for Nixon [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he was assigned to be jump-master of his plane. The plane was hit; only Nixon and three others made it out before it crashed. Nixon was attached to the 17th for only one night; on March 25 he was sent back over the Rhine and flown by a special small plane back to the 2nd Battalion in Mourmelon. The jump qualified Nixon to be one of two men in the 506th eligible to wear three stars on his jump wings― Normandy, Holland, and Operation Varsity. The other was Sergeant Wright of the Pathfinders [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who had been in Easy Company back at Toccoa.
German resistance to Operation Varsity was fierce. Meanwhile infantry and armored divisions of the U.S. First Army were pouring across the Rhine via the recently captured Ludendorff Bridge at R[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]gen, then swinging north to encircle the German army defending Germany's industrial heartland in the Ruhr.
Eisenhower needed to bolster the ring around the Ruhr. The 82nd and 101st were available. The orders came at the end of March. The company was moving out, back to the front, this time on the Rhine River.
The veterans resolved not to take any chances. The end of the war was in sight, and they now believed what they could not believe at Bastogne [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that they were going to make it. Safe. More or less in
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