Richard Attenborough’s epic recreation of the doomed Operation Market Garden – in which a lone German soldier walks across ...

Service to commemorate Operation Market Garden 80 years on attended by Grimsby and Cleethorpes Paratroopers Regiment ...

Allied airborne troops entered a Nazi-occupied Netherlands, their descendants paid respects to the bravery of soldiers who ...

Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned ...

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 ...

Veterans watch as paratroopers leap to mark the Battle of Arnhem - Events were held in the Netherlands to mark the 80th ...

However, the airborne troops – including a large number of Polish servicemen who had been dropped to capture the bridge over the Lower Rhine at Arnhem – faced much stiffer resistance ...

As with all the graves at Oosterbeek – which lies about five miles west of Arnhem and served as the focal point for much of the fighting away from the Rhine bridge – Leonard Hooker’s has been adopted ...

But stiff German resistance and stretched supply lines scuppered the plan as the Allies failed to hold a key bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem in a battle immortalized in the book and star-studded ...

In 1944, the Allies came up with an ambitious plan – codenamed Market Garden – to cross the River Rhine, advance deep ... to reach the furthest bridge at Arnhem before German forces ...