Soldier’s remains buried 74 years after ‘Bridge Too Far’ battle in World War II

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Soldier’s remains buried 74 years after ‘Bridge Too Far’ battle in World War II
By: The Associated Press   16 hours ago
 

SCRANTON, Pa. — The remains of a U.S. Army paratrooper killed in World War II have been returned to his Pennsylvania hometown, 74 years after he died in the battle chronicled in the 1977 film “A Bridge Too Far.”

On Sept. 20, 1944, Army Pfc. Willard “Bud” Jenkins was hit twice by enemy fire as he crossed the Waal River in the Dutch city of Nijmegen during the unsuccessful Allied effort called Operation Market Garden.

Jenkins was a member of Company C, 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion (307th AEB), 82nd Airborne Division, according to a Defense Department website.

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