In mid-September 1944, things looked great for the Allies. With their foothold in Normandy secured after D-Day and the successful invasion of Southern France in Operation Dragoon, Allied soldiers ...

Operation Market Garden – the 80th anniversary of which takes place over September 17-25 – has gone down in history as a strategic failure. The brainchild of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, this ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** In September 1944, Allied forces ...

Operation Market Garden aimed to leap across the Rhine, seize key bridges and force a rapid end to the war. Instead, ...

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER '44 On 17 September 1944 thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky by parachute or glider up to 150 km behind enemy lines. Their goal: to secure to bridges across the rivers ...

Each year, waves of paratroopers commemorate Operation Market Garden fought in the Netherlands in September 1944. Operation “Market Garden” is the name of an unsuccessful Allied military operation ...

EDE, Netherlands (Reuters) - Operation Market Garden, the ultimately failed attempt to liberate the north of the Netherlands from Nazi Germany in September 1944, was commemorated by veterans and ...

Read full article: ‘I understand the angst’: Mayor Deegan shares her response to viral Jacksonville traffic stop video GINKEL HEATH – Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over ...

On the afternoon of September 17, 1944, the death blow to Hitler’s Germany seemed to blossom in the skies over Holland. It was 75 years ago when two American and one British airborne division landed ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Sept. 29, 2014) -- This year, as we honor the 70th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden, we remember the sacrifices Soldiers and paratroopers made all those years ago. As part of ...

CRESTVIEW — "German troops seen near Spanish Trail Park in Crestview, Allied troops move to engage" is probably what a headline from the Northwest Florida Daily News would be if this were real.