At Bande on 11th January, 1945, a patrol from the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion who had been in reserve, accompanied by the Belgian SAS, discovered with horror the bodies of thirty four civilians, who had been murdered by the Germans on Christmas Eve.
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The other two divisions available in reserve, the American 82nd and 101st Airborne, were already at Rheims in northern France, and the 6th Airborne rested and re-trained after their success in Normandy was sent from England by sea to Belgium to assist in the defence.
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British XXX corps which consisted of the British 6th Airbourne division was tasked of clearing the area East of Dinant, Rochfort, Gupont and Bure.
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