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EXCLUSIVE: Hero Peter Colthup - the last glider pilot from the fabled Operation Market Garden - joined up in 1939 aged 17.

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 ...

Peter Colthup, the final surviving glider pilot from the Battle of Arnhem, has died at the age of 103. The veteran served ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...