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'''Operasi Varsity''' adolah operasi pasukan dari langik nan diusahokan dek pasukan sakutu manjalang Parang Dunia II nio barakhia. Operasi iko digala pado 24 Maret 1945. Bakakuatan 16.000 panajun payuang sarato jo ribuan kapa tabang, bisa dikatokan iko adalah operasi pasukan dari langik paliang gadang dalam sahari nan digala di ciek tampek sapanjang sijarah.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Paratrooper! : the saga of U.S. Army and Marine parachute and glider combat troops during World War II|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13761812|publisher=St. Martin's Press|date=1986|location=New York|isbn=0-312-59652-9|oclc=13761812|last=Devlin, Gerard M.}}</ref>
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{{Infobox military conflict|conflict=Operation Varsity|combatant1={{flag|United Kingdom}}<br />{{flag|United States|1912}}<br />{{flag|Canada|1921}}|notes=|casualties2=Unknown total casualties<br />3,500 captured<ref name="Ellis, p. 291"/>|casualties1=2,378–2,700 casualties{{#tag:ref|Ellis puts [[6th Airborne Division (United Kingdom)|British 6th Airborne Division]] losses as 1,400 dead, wounded or captured and places the [[17th Airborne Division (United States)|U.S. 17th Airborne Division]] losses as 1,300 dead, wounded or captured.<ref name="Ellis, p. 291"/> The official [[Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)|Parachute Regiment]] website places 6th Airborne losses at 1,078 killed or wounded.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.army.mod.uk/para/history/rhine.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060803032605/http://www.army.mod.uk/para/history/rhine.htm |archivedate=3 August 2006 |title=Operation Varsity – The Rhine Crossing |accessdate=2010-01-26 |author=The Parachute Regiment |date=2004-03-26 |publisher=Ministry of Defense |url-status=dead }}</ref>|group="Note"}}<br />72 aircraft{{#tag:ref|Over 1,700 aircraft were employed during the airlift of the airborne forces, of which 56 planes were lost. A further 240 planes flew a resupply mission following the glider landings, 16 planes were shot down. Of the 1,300 gliders employed during the operation, under 4% were destroyed.<ref>Notes of the operations of 21 Army Group 6 June 1944 – 5 May 1945, p. 51</ref>|group="Note"}}|strength2=8,000 (est.){{#tag:ref|Otway claims that Allied intelligence placed 7 Parachute Division and 84 Infantry Division at around 4,000 men each after having suffered heavy casualties in previous campaigns, these being the two German formations facing the Allied airborne forces.<ref name="Otway 299"/>|group="Note"}}|strength1=16,870{{#tag:ref|6th Airborne landed 7,220 men, 17th Airborne landed 9,650 men.<ref name="Ellis, p. 291">Ellis, p. 291</ref>|group="Note"}}|units2=[[7th Parachute Division (Germany)|7th Parachute Division]]<br>84th Infantry Division|units1={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[6th Airborne Division (United Kingdom)|6th Airborne Division]]<br>{{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[17th Airborne Division (United States)|17th Airborne Division]]|combatant2={{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}}|commander2={{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Günther Blumentritt]]|partof=[[Operation Plunder]]|commander1={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Bernard Montgomery]]<br />{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Eric Bols]]<br />{{flagicon|USA|1912}} [[Matthew Ridgway]]<br />{{flagicon|USA|1912}} [[William M. Miley|William Miley]]|result=[[Allies of World War II|Allied]] victory|territory=|casus=|place=[[Wesel]], Germany|date=24 March 1945|caption=C-47 transport aircraft drop hundreds of paratroopers as part of Operation Varsity|image_size=300px|image=C-47 transport planes release hundreds of paratroops.jpg|campaignbox={{Campaignbox Central Europe}}
== Rujuakan ==
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