The airdrop is one of several events organised to mark the anniversary of Operation Market Garden, an ambitious military offensive designed to speed up the invasion of Nazi Germany and shorten the ...

Parachutists jump Saturday over Ginkel Heath, Netherlands, to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II's audacious but unsuccessful Operation Market Garden. Parachutists jump Saturday over Ginkel ...

Operation Market Garden - which has been immortalised by ... the most crucial bridge crossing the Lower Rhine. Meanwhile, tanks from Britain's 30 Corps would blast their way across Holland to ...

Codenamed Operation Market Garden, the Battle of Arnhem took place ... single-handedly manning two anti-tank guns and refusing to leave his post despite being seriously injured.