Operation Market Garden was the Allied operation to end the Second World War by Christmas 1944. The brainchild of Bernard ...

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.

Operation Market Garden, which spanned nine days, combined a large airborne assault with a ground offensive. The airborne phase, known as Operation Market, dropped paratroopers behind enemy lines ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parachutists Commemorate 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands GINKEL HEATH, Netherlands (AP) — Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — This week marked the 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, a pivotal World War II battle that led to over 11,000 allied force deaths and preceded the Battle of the ...

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, ...