Parachutists Commemorate 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands
About 11,500 Allied troops died in the nine days of Operation Market Garden, more than than during the D-Day landings in France.
Hundreds of parachutists drop over Dutch heath to commemorate World War II operation
Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the 80th anniversary Operation Market Garden
Allies to remember failed WWII parachute operation
Veterans and royals gather this weekend to mark the 80th anniversary of one of World War II's greatest Allied debacles: an unprecedented but failed airborne operation to seize Dutch bridges and forge a path into Nazi Germany.
World War II's Operation Market Garden commemorated
Parachutists jump Saturday over Ginkel Heath, Netherlands, to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II's Operation Market Garden. Parachutists jump Saturday over Ginkel Heath, Netherlands, to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II's Operation Market Garden.
Solemn Ceremony Marks End Of Failed WWII Parachute Drop Commemorations
Britain's Princess Anne and hundreds of children laid flowers Sunday in memory of those who died 80 years ago during one of World War II's most audacious airborne operations: a plan to seize Dutch bridges and forge a path into Nazi Germany.
Hundreds of parachutists jump to mark WWII operation
Hundreds of parachutists on Saturday dropped down on a heath near the Dutch town of Ede, following in the footsteps of 2,000 Allied soldiers 80 years ago. This included the solemn reburial of two Allied soldiers who died at the time,
Paratroopers land in Arnhem honoring Operation Market Garden
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Remembering Operation Market Garden, eighty years later
He was ferrying seven enlisted men and supplies to a bold new war front known as Operation Market Garden. But that gentle name belied the hellish situation awaiting Marks and his fellow pilots.
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101st Airborne troops land in the Netherlands in tribute to Allied operation 80 years ago
Tuesday marked the anniversary of Operation Market Garden in 1944, when approximately 20,000 Allied airborne troops first landed in the Netherlands with parachutes and gliders. They included ...
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5 Films and TV Shows About Operation Market Garden, Recommended by a War Historian
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 ...
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Battle of Arnhem: Mass parachute drop marks WW2 assault
A mass parachute drop has taken place in the Netherlands to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden in World War ... laying at the former landing zone of Ginkel Heath.
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Allies to remember failed WWII parachute operation
Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Britain's Princess Anne will join a handful of remaining veterans to commemorate Operation Market Garden ... mainly because the drop zones were too far from ...