Just after midnight on October 23, 1944, approximately twenty paratroopers of E-Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, led by Lt. Fred 'Moose" Heyliger, crossed the Lower Rhine into German-held territory in Holland. Their mission-evacuate 125 men of the British 1st Parachute Division, survivors of the Arnhem fighting, along with a mixed group of Dutch resistance fighters and downed American airmen.
By: Gil Cohen
