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Crowds celebrate liberation in the Copenhagen town square. (Jørgen Nielsen, via Picryl, public domain)

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Operation ECLIPSE

Operation ECLIPSE in 1945 was aimed at liberating Denmark from German occupying forces and preventing the Soviet Army from occupying it.

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Crowds in Copenhagen celebrate the liberation of Denmark in May 1945.
(Nationalmuseet - National Museum of Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

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VE-Day eclipsed by Airborne missions

British Airborne troops fly from South Kesteven to deter Russian advance into Denmark.

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