The annual commemoration of Operation Market Garden marked the end of the Falcon Leap exercise. On the outskirts of Arnhem, RNLAF and NATO transport aircraft combined forces to participate in the ...

Explore the untold story of the First Polish Independent Parachute Brigade in Operation Market Garden. Discover how these brave paratroopers jumped into Arnhem on September 21, 1944, and the ...

The 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden culminated this week with a series of commemorative events - Copyright ANP/AFP ROB ENGELAAR The 80th anniversary of ...

September 17, 2019, was the 75th anniversary of the start of Operation Market Garden, a daring Allied effort to drop behind German lines in the Netherlands. The operation was meant to bring a quick ...

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 ...

Take a look at these photographs of the commemoration flights. Operation “Market Garden” is the name of an unsuccessful Allied military operation launched during World War II and fought between Sept.

A war veteran who fought in the Battle of Arnhem has been honoured in the King's Birthday Honours, just weeks shy of his 100th birthday. Geoffrey Roberts, from Peterborough, is being awarded the ...

In total, the ill-conceived operation saw the Germans take around 6,600 prisoners and Allied losses totalled almost 15,000, according to Beevor. The Netherlands was finally liberated in May 1945 and ...