Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing proved "A Bridge too Far.

Operation Market Garden aimed to push through the Netherlands and into Germany just a few months after the D-Day landings.

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.

Service to commemorate Operation Market Garden 80 years on attended by Grimsby and Cleethorpes Paratroopers Regiment Association

Eighty years after thousands of Allied airborne troops parachuted into the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in a daring military offensive their modern counterparts have made the same jump. Paratroopers from eight Nato member countries,