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 ...

Events were held in the Netherlands to mark the 80th anniversary of an operation that did not achieve its key objective.

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 ...

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 ...

The King has said the “heroism and sacrifice made by so many in the pursuit of peace” will never be forgotten as the 80th ...

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 ...