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Reinforcement

'Reinforcement' was an Allied unrealised plan to bolster Major General Matthew B. Ridgway’s US 82nd Airborne Division with Major General R. E. Urquhart’s British 1st Airborne Division in the area to the west of St Sauveur le Vicomte in the south-eastern corner of the Cotentin peninsula during 'Overlord' (7 June 1944).

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