The John Frost Bridge, popularly known as the Rhine Bridge, is a traffic bridge in Arnhem-Centrum across the river Nederrijn. The bridge is named after the English Lieutenant Colonel John Dutton Frost. In the Second World War, the bridge played an important role because of the airborne landing and battle of the Allied troops in September 1944, as part of Operation Market Garden.
The bridge is an important connection in the route from Arnhem North to Arnhem South and vice versa. The bridge was named on 16 September 1978 after John Dutton Frost, who, as lieutenant colonel of the second battalion of the First British Airborne Brigade during the Battle of Arnhem, reached the bridge but failed to capture it entirely from the Germans. Every year in September a national memorial concert takes place at the bridge. The bridge is the backdrop for many films; the most famous is undoubtedly A Bridge Too Far.
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