Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to ...

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Operation Market Garden aimed to leap across the Rhine, seize key bridges and force a rapid end to the war. Instead, scattered landings, destroyed crossings and determined German defenses stalled the ...

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Former Darlington councillor and military historian Mike Renton is just back from Arnhem having led a battlefields tour which followed in the glider-trails of some of the local men who were involved ...

Jumping in to Drop Zones eight to ten miles from Arnhem on the second day of Operation Market Garden was always going to be difficult for Brigadier Shan Hacketts 4th British Parachute Brigade With ...

We drop into September 17, 1944 as Lieutenant-Colonel John Frost and over 600 British paratroopers land near Arnhem to seize ...

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 ...

GINKEL HEATH, Netherlands — Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands on Saturday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Operation Market ...

Paratroops from nine Nato nations today jumped into Ginkle Heath on the outskirts of Arnhem - the same landing zone used 80 years ago during Operation Market Garden. The 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat ...

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 ...

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