Operation Varsity Memorial

Hamminkeln, DE

A memorial in Hamminkeln marking the landing zones of **Operation Varsity** on March 24, 1945 — the largest single-day airborne assault in military history. Over 16,000 paratroopers and glider troops of the British **6th Airborne Division** and American **17th Airborne Division** landed east of the Rhine to secure the flanks of the Operation Plunder river crossing.