Eighty years ago today, as World War II raged in Europe, U.S. Army pilot William Marks flew a glider behind enemy lines into German territory. He was ferrying seven enlisted men and supplies to a bold ...

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

While Saturday's commemorations involved parachute reenactments, Operation Market Garden also famously involved the use of long-range gliders, usually crewed by two soldiers, that were towed to ...

Later, beginning on September 17, 1944, gliders flew 300 miles to their landing zones in support of Operation Market-Garden. The glider operation was successful in delivering its airborne troops ...

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.

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 Get the latest ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Sept. 17, 1944, American and British forces launched Operation Market Garden, ... Ten thousand British airborne troops would land by glider and parachute and seize the Rhine crossing at Arnhem.

Operation Market Garden was an audacious plan that aimed to seize back key ... It involved dropping nearly 35,000 paratroopers behind enemy lines using an aerial armada of gliders and other ...

About 11,500 Allied troops died in the nine days of Operation Market Garden, ... It involved dropping nearly 35,000 paratroopers behind enemy lines using an aerial armada of gliders and other ...