Things looked promising for the Allies. Following D-Day and the successful invasion of Southern France in Operation Dragoon, ...

Operation Market Garden was the Allied operation to end the Second World War by Christmas 1944. The brainchild of Bernard Montgomery, it involved the combined use of airborne and armoured divisions ...

Pvt. John Towle who, faced with a company-size enemy force with armor support and comported himself like a one-man anti-tank ...

Operation Market Garden commenced on Sept. 17, 1944, with most all of the American airborne forces reaching their designated landing zones and managed to land without much resistance, at first.

About 11,500 Allied troops died in the nine days of Operation Market Garden, more than than during the D-Day landings in France two months earlier. The British 1st Airborne Division led the ...

The 101st Airborne Division, which regularly marks Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands, put a modern twist on its commemorations this year by conducting an air assault demonstration along ...

During Operation Market Garden in September 1944, one of the main American units to participate was the 101st Airborne.The men and equipment of the division were dropped into Holland via C-47 ...

Operation Market Garden The re-enactment will tell the story of one of the most famed conflicts of World War II, a few weeks shy of the 79th anniversary of the conflict.

Eighty years ago today, as World War II raged in Europe, U.S. Army pilot William Marks flew a glider behind enemy lines into German territory. He was ferrying seven enlisted men and supplies to a bold ...

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 ...

For Operation Market Garden, he arrived in the nearby village of Wolfheze a day before the mass drops at Ginkel Heath in September 1944. Sign up for the Breaking News newsletter.

For Operation Market Garden, he arrived in the nearby village of Wolfheze a day before the mass drops at Ginkel Heath in September 1944. “Well, ...