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Originally posted by Garry Shipton
As to the movie Band of Brothers,the prows are pointed,there is the absence of the 50HP outboards,versus them paddling in the movie,& the erroneous declaration of the British para commander,that there were only 110 men.What happened to the balance of the paras rescued out of the total 2500?
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Garry,
I hadn't mentioned the boats used in BoB, but since you did, I can answer your question... Easy Coy was involved much after the fact of the main rescue (by Canadian sappers), picking up 'strays' who had been smuggled down to the river much later by friendly Dutch (at quite some cost). That operation is well-documented in Leo Heaps' book THE GREY GOOSE OF ARNHEM. Well worth the read.