The airdrop is one of several events organised to mark the anniversary of Operation Market Garden, an ambitious military ...

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

Both men were killed during the crucial Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands in ... Frank managed to steer his doomed aircraft away from the town of Gennep, saving many lives.

Some 700 paratroopers took part in the jump, including the Red Devils, the British Army’s freefall parachute display team. The event commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, part of ...

THE skies above Arnhem were full of parachutes again yesterday — 80 years after brave British troops made the same jump ...

Direct RAF support for Market Garden started on the night of 16/17 September 1944 ... whilst 54 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitoes bombed flak [Flieger Abwehr Kanonen – Anti Aircraft Artillery] batteries.

Also, 117 resupply sorties were generated; unfortunately, bad weather reduced fighter cover and the Luftwaffe took full advantage: 23 transports were lost, with No. 190 Squadron being savaged – losing ...

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

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

Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands on Saturday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of World War II's most daring — but ...

Eighty years ago today, as World War II raged in Europe, U.S. Army pilot William Marks flew a glider behind enemy lines into ...