** 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. ** Four British paratroopers moving ...

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

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 ...

ARNHEM, Netherlands — According to historians, several key factors, including inclement weather and ill-placed drop zones, threatened the Allied forces’ success during the 1944 Operation Market Garden ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amid the chaos of the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944, Major Digby, a fearless British paratrooper, stood out with an ...

EERDE, Netherlands — American airborne troops stormed out of their helicopters and took cover in some of the same fields where Allied troops took on the Nazis 80 years ago in a valiant attempt to ...

The largest airborne operation in American history began with seven daysAca,!a,,c notice. The Allies had hit the German army hard since D-Day and pushed it back to the German border. British Field ...