Charity and Voluntary Sector
BIG: As the 65th anniversary of Operation Market Garden approaches, Second World War veterans from across the nation have been awarded Big Lottery Fund grants to return to Holland and the battlefields of Europe & beyond to commemorate those that lost their lives.
The latest round from the Big Lottery Fund’s Heroes Return 2 programme has awarded over £640,000 to allow more than 400 veterans, along with their widows, spouses & carers to commemorate those that didn’t make it home from the battles that shaped the outcome of the Second World War. Operation Market Garden saw 30,000 British & American airborne troops flown behind enemy lines to capture the 8 bridges that spanned the network of canals & rivers on the Dutch/German border.
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