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Why a Bridge Was Too Far
Lieutenant Colonel John Frost led the 2nd Parachute Battalion in the assault during the Battle of Arnhem, a key component of Operation Market Garden in World War II. Parachuting behind enemy lines ...
Pvt. John Towle who, faced with a company-size enemy force with armor support and comported himself like a one-man anti-tank ...
Buckingham Palace celebrated a special veteran's birthday after King Charles snubbed his son, Prince Harry, by not including him in the Armed Forces Day tribute. The monarch's office released ...
On the eve of his 100th birthday Battle of Arnhem warrior Geoff Roberts receives his MBE at Buckingham Palace.
Geoffrey Roberts said it was important for Second World War veterans to be recognised ‘for the ones who didn’t come home’.
Operation Market Garden was the Allied operation to end the Second World War by Christmas 1944. The brainchild of Bernard Montgomery, it involved the combined use of airborne and armoured divisions ...
They were some of the survivors of a whole airborne division of over 10,000 men lost during the most audacious and ultimately controversial battles of Operation Market Garden; Arnhem.
My first operation was involved with the airborne operation to Arnhem named Market Garden. This involved towing a Horsa glider from Dorset to the drop zone near Arnhem.
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 ...
Local 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.