We drop into September 17, 1944 as Lieutenant-Colonel John Frost and over 600 British paratroopers land near Arnhem to seize ...
Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.
GINKEL HEATH, Netherlands — Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands on Saturday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Operation Market ...
September 1944 The Battle of Arnhem was one of the most audacious but ultimately controversial battles of the Second World War Airborne drops in Holland were to secure important bridges on the route ...
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 Montgomery, this ...
The late Cornelius Ryan wrote the definitive dissection of the failure of British Airborne troops to capture Holland’s Rhine River Bridge at Arnhem in his book “A Bridge Too Far.” For Hempfield ...