Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the ...

Hundreds of American and allied military personnel recreated the paratrooper jumps and river crossings of the failed World ...

Eighty years after the landing of the airborne troops in September 1944, which was part of the Allied liberation operation ...

Tuesday marked the anniversary of Operation Market Garden in 1944 ... with the 101st Airborne Division and 7,000 assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division. The plan succeeded in freeing several ...

Operation Market Garden was an audacious plan that aimed ... Paratroopers from the U.S. Army’s 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and Poland’s 1st Independent Parachute Brigade also were ...

As reported by ForcesNews.com, it involved the seizure of key bridges in the Netherlands by the 101st and 82nd US Airborne ... the 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden.

On Sept. 17, the museum will open a new display featuring objects of James Megellas, a Fond du Lac native who is considered the most-highly decorated officer in the 82nd Airborne. A 1942 ROTC ...

However, as so often in war, Operation Market Garden, as the mission was codenamed ... at Grave was taken on September 17 by the American 82nd Airborne Division. However, the airborne troops ...

This comprised the British First Airborne Division (which had not been in Normandy for Overlord), the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade, as well as the 82nd and 101st American ... Montgomery to proceed.