Operation Market Garden was the Allied operation to end the Second World War by Christmas 1944. The brainchild of Bernard ...

Seven months was spent in Canada training and other courses followed on return to the UK. My first operation was involved with the airborne operation to Arnhem named Market Garden.

Arnhem's mayor, Rene Verhulst, called the heath near Arnhem a place "where 80 years ago courage, sacrifice and hope came together in the shape of the airborne landings during Operation Market Garden." ...

Operation Market Garden commenced on Sept. 17, 1944, with most all of the American airborne forces reaching their designated landing zones and managed to land without much resistance, at first.

About 11,500 Allied troops died in the nine days of Operation Market Garden, more than than during the D-Day landings in France two months earlier. The British 1st Airborne Division led the ...

Parachutists Commemorate 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands GINKEL HEATH, Netherlands (AP) — Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath ...

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 ...

John Rochelle, a Kansas City resident and former British military officer, will ride 400 miles in Europe to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden.He's hoping to use the ...

Sgt. 1st Class Christine Permenter, a vocalist with the 101st Airborne Division, performs at a ceremony to mark 80 years since the start of Operation Market Garden near Eerde, Netherlands, on ...

For Operation Market Garden, he arrived in the nearby village of Wolfheze a day before the mass drops at Ginkel Heath in September 1944. Sign up for the Breaking News newsletter.

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 ...