Operation Market Garden is best known for the British and American airborne assaults. But what about the Polish paratroopers?

Pvt. John Towle who, faced with a company-size enemy force with armor support and comported himself like a one-man anti-tank ...

Some 44 of the glider pilots were killed in action. Chambers went on to fly multiple combat missions in C-47s, including dropping two groups of paratroopers during Operation Market Garden.

Photo: Reuben Saidman/Popperfoto/Getty Images On Sept. 17, 1944, American and British forces launched Operation Market Garden, the largest combined ground and air operation ever attempted.

A Halifax aircraft towing a Hamilcar Glider near Blandford, Dorset in 1944/5 I joined 298 Squadron based in Dorset in September 1944. I was a pilot flying a 4 engine Halifax Bomber. I was first ...

Mike Renton explains how Operation Market Garden unfolded I used magnets to pin a large map to the side of the coach and even the pensioners, who between the 17 of them had a combined age of 1,452 ...

Operation Market Garden in 1944 ultimately ended in failure, with the loss of almost 15,000 Allied soldiers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Parachutists jump over Ginkel Heath Netherlands Saturday, to mark the 80th anniversary of an audacious but unsuccessful World War II mission codenamed Market Garden to take key bridges in the ...