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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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